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Call may refer to:

• A type of betting in poker
• Animal communication, a song or noise made by an animal such as:
  • Bird call, part of a bird song
• a command in square dancing, delivered by a caller
• Call (telecommunications), often specifically a telephone call
• Call option, a term in stock trading
• a shell command in DOS, OS/2 and Microsoft Windows command-line interpreters
• System call, in computer science, the mechanism used by an application program to request service from:-

• the operating system or
• another application program subroutine (with or without parameters)

• curtain call, backstage in the theatre, the time remaining until curtain is called periodically, usually at half hour and five minutes.

As an acronym, CALL may be short for

• Computer-assisted language learning, a concept in language education
• Center for Anglican Learning & Leadership at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific
• The United States Army's Center for Army Lessons Learned

As a proper noun

• Call (band), a Pakistani rock band
• Call, Texas, a community in the southern United States

People with the surname Call include

• Ann Lowdon Call
• Annie Payson Call
• Anson Call
• Brandon Call
• Sir John Call, 1st Baronet
• Ramón Malla Call
• R. D. Call
• Richard K. Call
• Wilkinson Call

Fictional characters with the surname Call include

• Annalee Call, the android portrayed by Winona Ryder in Alien Resurrection

See also

• The Call (disambiguation)
• Caller (disambiguation)
• Calling (disambiguation)
• Call sign, in broadcasting and radio communications, a unique designation for a transmitting station

• Disambiguation pages
• Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists