call up
English
Pronunciation
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Noun
Translations
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Verb
call up (third-person singular simple present calls up, present participle calling up, simple past and past participle called up)
- To retrieve from personal or computer memory.
- 2017 July 27, Tony Leondis, “The Emoji Movie is Inside Out crossed with a Sony commercial and dunked in toxic ooze”, in The Onion AV Club[1]:
- The Emoji Movie takes place in “Textopolis,” where emojis maintain their assigned expression with no deviation, waiting to be called up for their on-screen appearance as needed.
- (idiomatic) To call on the telephone.
- To select e.g. to a sports squad.
- Dean Ashton was called up to the England squad for the first time.
Synonyms
- ring up (to call on the telephone)
Translations
to retrieve from memory
to call on telephone
to select
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