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Call or Calls may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Games

• Call, a type of betting in poker
• Call, in the game of contract bridge, a bid, pass, double, or redouble in the bidding stage

Music and dance

• Call (band), from Lahore, Pakistan
• Call, a command in square dancing, delivered by a caller
• "Call / I4U", a 2011 single by Japanese music group AAA
• "Call", a 2002 song by Ashanti from her album Ashanti

Film

• Call (film), or The Call, 2020 South Korean film
• Calls (film), 2021 Indian Tamil-language crime thriller film

Television

• Calls (TV series), a mystery thriller TV series on Apple TV+

Finance

• Call on shares, a request for a further payment on partly paid share capital
• Call option, a term in stock trading

Science and technology

Computing

• Call, a shell command in DOS, OS/2 and Microsoft Windows command-line interpreters
• Call, a method of starting a subroutine
• Computer-assisted language learning, a concept in language education
• System call, in computer science, the mechanism used by an application program to request service from the operating system or another application program

Nature

• Animal communication, a song or noise made by an animal such as:
  • Bird call, part of a bird song
  • Mating call, animal communication to attract a sexual partner
• Game call, a device that is used to mimic animal communication noises to attract or drive animals to a hunter

Telecommunications

• Call, an attempt to set up a telecommunication circuit
• Call, in teletraffic engineering, a unit of traffic measurement
• Call origination, in telephony
• Call sign, in broadcasting and radio communications, a unique designation for a transmitting station
• Telephone call

Other uses

• Call (surname)
• Religious calling
• Call, Texas, a community in the south-central United States
• CALL, U.S. Army Center for Army Lessons Learned
• CALL, Center for Anglican Learning & Leadership at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific

See also

• Caller (disambiguation)
• Calling (disambiguation)
• The Call (disambiguation)

• Disambiguation pages