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单词 call the tune
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call1 /köl/

intransitive verb
  1. To cry aloud, speak loudly, shout (often with out)
  2. Of an animal or bird, to utter a cry or characteristic sound
  3. To make a short visit (with on, for, at)
  4. To make a telephone call
  5. To demand that a player show his hand after repeated raising of stakes (poker)
  6. To try to predict the result of tossing a coin
  7. To make a bid (bridge)
transitive verb and intransitive verb (cards)

To declare (trump suit, etc)

transitive verb
  1. To name
  2. To summon or request to be present
  3. To rouse from sleep or from bed
  4. To designate or reckon
  5. To select for a special office, eg to the Bar
  6. To telephone
  7. To read out the names in (a roll)
  8. To demand the repayment of (a debt, loan, redeemable bonds, etc)
  9. To give the order for (a strike)
  10. To make a call (sport)
  11. To demand the playing of (an exposed card) (poker)
  12. To apply (an offensive name) to (informal)
  13. To broadcast a commentary on (a race, etc) (Aust and NZ)
  14. To transfer control to (a subroutine) (computing)
noun
  1. A summons or invitation (to the witness box, the telephone, the stage or rehearsal, etc)
  2. A sense of vocation
  3. A demand
  4. An act of waking someone
  5. A short visit
  6. A signal by trumpet, bell, etc
  7. A telephone connection or conversation, or a request for one
  8. Occasion, cause (informal)
  9. A declaration or undertaking, or the right to make it in turn (cards)
  10. A direction in square dancing
  11. A decision on the status of a shot, articulated by an umpire or (esp tennis) a line judge (sport)
  12. A cry, esp of a bird
  13. Admission to the rank of barrister
  14. An invitation to the pastorate of a congregation
  15. (also call option) an option of buying within a certain time certain securities or commodities at a stipulated price (stock exchange)
  16. The money paid to secure such an option
  17. One instalment of the payment for newly-issued securities
ORIGIN: OE ceallian and ON kalla

callˈer noun

callˈing noun

Vocation, an occupation or profession

call alarm noun

A small radio transmitter used, esp by elderly people living alone, to summon help in an emergency

callˈ-at-large noun

A form of pastoral call sometimes adopted by a presbytery where a congregation is not unanimous, in which the name of the person to be called is not inscribed beforehand, and the names cannot be adhibited by mandate

callˈ-back noun

  1. A return telephone call
  2. An act of recalling

callˈ-barring noun (telecommunications)

The ability to restrict outgoing telephone calls to certain numbers

callˈ-bird noun

A bird trained to lure others into snares by its call

callˈ-box noun

A public telephone-box

callˈ-boy noun

A boy who calls the actors when they are required on stage

call centre noun

A building where workers provide services to a company's customers by telephone

Caller ID noun

A facility which displays the telephone number of an incoming call

call gapping noun

A technique used to prevent congestion in telephone systems by limiting the number of calls that can pass through the network at any time

callˈ-girl noun

A prostitute who arranges appointments with clients by telephone

call house noun

A house of prostitution

calling card noun

  1. A visiting card
  2. Anything that reveals the identity of a person (figurative)

callˈing-crab noun

The fiddler crab, which waves its larger claw when disturbed

callˈ-loan or callˈ-money noun (finance)

A loan or money called in for repayment or payable when demanded

callˈ-note noun

The note by which a bird or animal calls to its own kind

call option noun (stock exchange) see n above.

call-out see call out below.

call sign or call signal noun (communications)

A combination of letters and numbers, identifying a particular ship, aircraft, transmitter, etc

callˈtime noun

  1. Time available for use in making calls on a mobile phone
  2. The time used on a single phone call

callˈ-up noun

An act of calling up, esp conscription into the armed forces

call waiting noun (telecommunications)

The ability to accept an incoming telephone call routed by another number while holding a call on one's own number

call attention to

To point out

call away

To divert the mind

call back

  1. To recall
  2. To visit again
  3. To telephone again

call by

To visit briefly in passing

call collect (N American)

To make a reverse-charge telephone call

call cousins

To claim kindred

call down

  1. To invoke
  2. To rebuke, reprove sharply and angrily (esp US informal)

call for

  1. To come for and take away with one
  2. To ask loudly for
  3. To demand
  4. To require (calledˈ-for required, necessary; not called for uncalled-for)

call forth

To evoke

call in

  1. To bring in from public use old currency notes, etc (banking)
  2. To demand repayment of (a debt, etc)
  3. To call to one's help (eg a doctor, the police)
  4. To withdraw from circulation
  5. To withdraw (eg an application)

call in on

To visit briefly and informally

call in (or into) question

To challenge, cast doubt on

call off

  1. To order to come away
  2. To withdraw or back out
  3. To cancel or abandon

call of nature (euphemistic)

A need to urinate or defecate

call on or upon

  1. To invoke, appeal to
  2. To make a short visit to

call out

  1. To challenge to fight, eg a duel
  2. To summon to service, bring into operation
  3. To instruct (members of a trade union) to come out on strike
  4. To request or arrange a visit (eg of a repairman, service engineer; callˈ-out noun and adjective)

call over

To read aloud (a list)

call round

To visit informally

call the shots (orig US) or call the tune

To say what is to happen, to order, or to be in command

call to account see under account

call to mind

To recollect, or cause to recollect

call to order

  1. To call upon (participants) to observe the rules of debate
  2. (of a chairman) to announce that a formal meeting is starting

call up

  1. To summon eg to a tribunal, to esp military service, or to memory
  2. To telephone
  3. To display (information, data, etc on a computer screen)

have first call on

To have the right to use (something) in preference to anyone else

it's your, his, etc call

It is up to you, him, etc to make a decision

on call

  1. Available if required
  2. Ready to answer a summons

pay a call (informal; euphemistic)

To go to the lavatory

within call

Within calling distance

pipe1 /pīp/

noun
  1. A metal or plastic tube for the conveyance of water, gas, etc
  2. Any tube, or tubular part or thing, natural or artificial
  3. A musical wind instrument, or part of an instrument, consisting of or including a tube
  4. Any of an organ's upright metal or wooden tubes
  5. (in pl) a bagpipe
  6. The note of a bird
  7. A voice, esp a high voice
  8. (usu in pl) the windpipe
  9. Any of various hollow organs in an animal body
  10. A pipe-like volcanic vent, a cylindrical mass of ore, etc
  11. An entrance to a decoy
  12. A tube with a bowl at one end for smoking
  13. A fill of tobacco
  14. The smoking of a fill of tobacco
  15. A stick of eg pipeclay for curling hair or a wig (Sterne)
  16. A boatswain's whistle
  17. The direction of the output of a program or command into another (computing)
intransitive verb
  1. To play a musical pipe
  2. To whistle (as the wind or a boatswain does)
  3. To speak or sing, esp in a high voice
  4. To peep or sing, as a bird does
  5. To weep
  6. To become pipy
transitive verb
  1. To play on a pipe
  2. To lead or call by means of a pipe
  3. (with in) to accompany or call ceremonially in with pipe music
  4. To render, or cause to be, by playing a pipe
  5. To propagate by piping (horticulture)
  6. To force (icing, cream, etc) out through a nozzle in a thin strip as decoration
  7. To ornament with piping
  8. To supply with pipes
  9. To convey by pipe
  10. To transmit (television, radio signals) by electricity or along a wire
ORIGIN: OE pīpe, from L pīpāre to cheep; cf Du pijp, Ger Pfeife

pīpˈage noun

Conveyance or distribution by pipe

piped /pīpt/ adjective

  1. Tubular or fistulous
  2. Transported by means of a pipe
  3. Transmitted simultaneously to many outlets from a central control location by means of an audio system, telephone or electricity line, etc

pipeˈful noun (pl pipeˈfuls)

Enough to fill a pipe

pipeˈless adjective

pipeˈlike adjective

pīpˈer noun

  1. A player on a pipe, esp a bagpipe
  2. A broken-winded horse
  3. A young pigeon or other bird
  4. A kind of gurnard
  5. A pipe-smoker
  6. A decoy dog
  7. A kind of caddis-worm

pīpˈing adjective

  1. Playing a pipe
  2. Sounding like a pipe
  3. Producing a shrill sound, whistling
  4. Thin and high-pitched
  5. Characterized by pipe-playing, as opposed to martial music, as in the phrase the piping times of peace
  6. Hissing hot
  7. Very hot
noun
  1. The action of the verb pipe in any sense
  2. Pipe-playing
  3. A system of pipes
  4. Tubing
  5. Small cord used as trimming for clothes
  6. Strings and twists of icing ornamenting a cake
  7. A slip or cutting from a joint of a stem (horticulture)
  8. The action of hydraulicking

pīpˈy adjective

  1. Pipelike
  2. Having pipes
  3. Piping

pipe band noun

A military or marching band of bagpipe players and drummers, led by a pipe major

pipe bomb noun

A crude bomb made of a length of pipe packed with explosives

pipeˈ-case noun

A case for a tobacco pipe

pipeˈclay noun

A fine white, nearly pure, kaolin, free from iron, used for making tobacco pipes and fine earthenware, and for whitening military belts, etc

transitive verb

To whiten with pipeclay

pipeˈ-cleaner noun

A length of wire with tufts of fabric twisted into it, used to clean pipe-stems

piped music noun

Continuous background music played in a restaurant, etc, or piped from a central studio to other buildings

pipe dream noun

A futile and unreal hope or fancy such as one has when relaxing while smoking a pipe (orig an opium-smoker's fantasy)

pipeˈ-dreamer noun

pipeˈfish noun

A fish (of several species) of the seahorse family, a long thin fish covered with hard plates, the jaws forming a long tube

pipe fitting noun

Any of the wide variety of pipe connecting-pieces used to make turns, junctions, and reductions in piping systems

pipeˈ-key noun

A key with a hollow barrel

pipeˈ-layer noun

  1. Someone who lays pipes for water, gas, etc
  2. A political wirepuller (old US sl)

pipeˈ-laying noun

pipeless organ noun

A musical instrument, played like an organ, in which sounds, built up from whatever harmonics may be chosen, are produced by a loudspeaker

pipeˈ-light or pipeˈ-lighter noun

A spill for lighting a pipe

pipeˈline noun

  1. A long continuous line of piping to carry water from a reservoir, oil from an oilfield, etc
  2. A line of piping to carry solid materials
  3. Any continuous line of communication, or supply, or of progress and development (figurative)
  4. See also in the pipeline below

adjective (computing)

Denoting a processor, program, etc involving parallel processing of instructions which is overlapped to enable streams of instructions to be decoded and executed concurrently

transitive verb

  1. To carry by pipeline
  2. To carry out using a pipeline process (computing)

pipeˈlining noun

pipe major noun

The chief of a band of bagpipers

Pipe Office noun (historical)

An office in the Court of Exchequer in which the Clerk of the Pipe made out the Pipe Roll

pipe of peace see calumet

pipeˈ-opener noun (informal)

  1. A walk or spell of exercise in the fresh air
  2. A practice game or trial run

pipe organ noun

A musical organ with pipes

pipe rack noun

A rack for storing tobacco pipes

Pipe Roll noun (historical)

The Great Roll of the Exchequer, containing yearly accounts of sheriffs, etc (possibly from its pipelike form)

pipe snake noun

A tropical burrowing snake

pipeˈ-stem noun

The tube of a tobacco pipe

pipeˈstone noun

A red argillaceous stone used by Native Americans for making tobacco pipes

pipeˈ-stoppˈle or pipeˈ-stappˈle noun (Scot)

  1. A tobacco pipe stem
  2. Anything very thin and brittle-looking

pipeˈ-track noun

The course of a pipe across country

pipeˈ-tree noun (obsolete)

  1. The mock orange (white pipe-tree)
  2. The lilac (blue pipe-tree)

pipeˈwork noun

  1. A vein of ore in the form of a pipe
  2. Piping or pipes collectively, eg in an organ

pipeˈwort noun

A rare rush-like water plant (Eriocaulon septangulare) of Ireland and the Hebrides, the only European representative of its family, Eriocaulaceae

pipeˈ-wrench noun

A wrench that grips a pipe when turned one way

piping crow noun

An Australian bird (genus Gymnorhina) called a magpie, really related to the shrikes

piping hare noun

A pika

boatswain's pipe see boatswain's whistle under whistle

drunk as a piper

Very drunk

in the pipeline

  1. Waiting to be considered or dealt with
  2. In preparation

pay the piper

  1. To bear the expense (and so call the tune have control)
  2. To have to pay heavily

pipe and tabor

A small recorder, fingered by the left hand, and a small drum beaten with the right, formerly in use in rustic jollities

pipe down

  1. To subside into silence
  2. To stop talking or be quiet (informal)
  3. To dismiss (a ship's company) from muster (the final order of the day)

pipe one's eye, tune one's pipes

To weep

pipe up (informal)

  1. To interject, say something
  2. To begin to speak

piping hot

(of food, usu when served) very hot, literally so hot as to make a hissing or sizzling noise

put that in your pipe and smoke it! (informal; of some unwelcome home truth, etc)

There! how do you like that?

tune /tūn/

noun
  1. A melody or air
  2. Melodiousness
  3. Tone
  4. Accurate adjustment in pitch or frequency
  5. Harmonious adjustment (figurative)
  6. Frame of mind, temper
  7. A song (informal)
transitive verb
  1. To adjust the tones of
  2. To put in condition for producing tones in tune
  3. To put in smooth working order
  4. To synchronize
  5. To adjust (a radio, TV, video recorder, etc) so as to produce the optimum response to an incoming signal
  6. To put in accord, bring to a desired state
  7. To begin to play or sing (archaic)
  8. To start the singing of (archaic)
  9. To utter, express or celebrate in music (archaic)
intransitive verb

To give forth musical sound

ORIGIN: A form of tone1

tūnˈable or tuneˈable adjective

  1. Tuneful
  2. In tune

tunˈableness noun

tunˈably adverb

tuned /tūnd/ adjective

tuneˈful adjective

  1. Full of tune
  2. Melodious
  3. Musical

tuneˈfully adverb

tuneˈfulness noun

tuneˈless adjective

  1. Without tune
  2. Not melodious or tuneful
  3. Unmusical
  4. Without sense of tune
  5. Silent (poetic)

tuneˈlessly adverb

tuneˈlessness noun

tunˈer noun

  1. A person who tunes instruments, engines, etc
  2. Someone who makes music, or sings
  3. An apparatus for receiving radio signals
  4. A knob, dial, etc by which a radio or television is adjusted to different wavelengths
  5. In organs, an adjustable flap for altering the pitch of the tone

tunˈing noun

tunˈy adjective (tunˈier; tunˈiest)

Tuneful, esp in a superficial, obvious way

tuner amplifier noun

A piece of hi-fi equipment incorporating a radio receiver and an amplifier which can also be used with a record player, tape deck, etc

tuneˈsmith noun (facetious)

A songwriter or composer of light music

tuning fork noun

A two-pronged instrument giving a sound of known pitch or vibration

tuning key or tuning hammer noun

A key for turning wrest pins

tuning peg or tuning pin noun

A peg on a musical instrument around which the end of a string is wound and by which it is tuned

call the tune see pay the piper under pipe1

change one's tune or sing another tune

To alter one's attitude, or way of talking

in tune

  1. True in pitch
  2. In accord (figurative)

out of tune

  1. Not true in pitch
  2. Not agreeing (figurative)

to the tune of

To the amount of

tune in

To adjust a radio for reception of a specific station, programme, etc (often with to)

tune one's pipes see under pipe1

tune out

  1. To adjust (a radio, etc) so as to eliminate (a sound, frequency, etc)
  2. To ignore

tune up

  1. To put instruments into tune for beginning
  2. Of engines, etc, to (be) put into smooth working order
  3. To begin to perform, strike up (tuneˈ-up noun)
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