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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 55 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CALL (from Anglo-Saxon ceallian, a See also:common See also:Teutonic word, cf. Dutch kallen, to talk or chatter)  , to speak in a loud See also:voice, and particularly to attract some one's See also:attention by a loud utterance . Hence its use for a visit at a See also:house, where the name of the occupier, to whom the visit was made, was called aloud, in See also:early times, to indicate the presence of the visitor . It is thus transferred to a See also:short stay at a See also:place, but usually with the See also:idea of a specific purpose, as in " See also:port of See also:call," where See also:ships stop in passing . Connected with the idea of summoning by name are such uses as " See also:roll-call " or " call-over," where names are called over and answered by those See also:present; similar uses are the " call to the See also:bar," the summoning at an See also:Inn of See also:Court of those students qualified to practise as barristers, and the " call within the bar " to the See also:appointment of See also:king's counsel . In the first See also:case the " bar " is that which separates the benchers from the See also:rest of the See also:body of members of the Inn, in the other the place in a court of See also:law within which only king's counsel, and formerly serjeants-at-law, are allowed to plead . " Call " is also used with a particular reference to a divine See also:summons, as of the calling of the apostles . It is thus used in See also:nonconformist churches of the invitation to serve as See also:minister a particular See also:congregation or See also:chapel . It is from this sense of a vocatio or summons that the word " calling " is used, not only of the divine vocation, but of a See also:man's See also:ordinary profession, occupation or business . In card See also:games " call " is used, in See also:poker, of the demand that the See also:hand of the highest bettor be exposed or seen, exercised by that player who equals his See also:bet; in See also:whist or See also:bridge, of a certain method of See also:play, the " call " for a suit or for trumps on the See also:part of one partner, to which the other is expected to See also:respond; and in many card games for the naming of a card, irregularly exposed, which is laid See also:face up on the table, and may be thus " called " for, at any point the opponent may choose . " Call " is also a See also:term on the See also:English and See also:American stock exchanges for a See also:contract by which, in See also:consideration of a certain sum, an " See also:option " is given by the See also:person making or See also:signing the agreement to another named therein or his See also:order or to See also:bearer, to " call " for a specified amount of stock at a certain See also:day for a certain See also:price . A " put," which is the See also:reverse of a " call," is the option of selling (putting) stock at a certain day for a certain price . A combined option of either calling or putting is termed a " straddle," and sometimes on the American stock See also:exchange a "spread-See also:eagle." (See further STOCK EXCHANGE.) The word is also used, in connexion with See also:joint-stock companies, to signify a demand for instalments due on shares, when the See also:capital of the See also:company has not been demanded or " called " up at once .

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