CALL UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does call up mean? 

• CALL UP (noun)
  The noun CALL UP has 1 sense:

1. an order to report for military duty

  Familiarity information: CALL UP used as a noun is very rare.

• CALL UP (verb)
  The verb CALL UP has 5 senses:

1. bring forward for consideration

2. get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone

3. recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection

4. cause to become available for use, either literally or figuratively

5. call to arms; of military personnel

  Familiarity information: CALL UP used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CALL UP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An order to report for military duty

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("call up" is a kind of...):

summons (an order to appear in person at a given place and time)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Derivation:

call up (call to arms; of military personnel)

• CALL UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bring forward for consideration

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

bring forward; call up

Context example:

The case was called up in court

Hypernyms (to "call up" is one way to...):

raise (cause to be heard or known; express or utter)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

call; call up; phone; ring; telephone

Context example:

Take two aspirin and call me in the morning

Hypernyms (to "call up" is one way to...):

telecommunicate (communicate over long distances, as via the telephone or e-mail)

"Call up" entails doing...:

dial (operate a dial to select a telephone number)

Verb group:

call (send a message or attempt to reach someone by radio, phone, etc.; make a signal to in order to transmit a message)

Domain category:

telephone; telephony (transmitting speech at a distance)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "call up"):

cell phone (call up by using a cellular phone)

call in (make a phone call)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence examples:

Sam cannot call up Sue
They call up

Sense 3

Meaning:

Recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

call back; call up; recall; recollect; remember; retrieve; think

Context example:

call up memories

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "call up"):

know (perceive as familiar)

recognise; recognize (perceive to be the same)

brush up; refresh; review (refresh one's memory)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Somebody ----s VERB-ing

Sense 4

Meaning:

Cause to become available for use, either literally or figuratively

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

call up; summon

Context example:

running into an old friend summoned up memories of her childhood

Hypernyms (to "call up" is one way to...):

create; make (make or cause to be or to become)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "call up"):

arouse; bring up; call down; call forth; conjure; conjure up; evoke; invoke; put forward; raise; stir (summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 5

Meaning:

Call to arms; of military personnel

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Synonyms:

call up; mobilise; mobilize; rally

Hypernyms (to "call up" is one way to...):

call; send for (order, request, or command to come)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

call up (an order to report for military duty)

 Context examples 

Hagar, in a fine dramatic melody, promised both, and proceeded to call up the spirit who would bring the love philter.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I prevailed on the governor to call up Heliogabalus’s cooks to dress us a dinner, but they could not show us much of their skill, for want of materials.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

You must call up all your fortitude, and try to bear it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“But have you thought of ordering the window-glass? Just call up the firm,—Red, 4451, I think it is,—and tell them what size and kind of glass you wish.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

She was alarmed by this account and passed several hours in looking for him, when the gates of Geneva were shut, and she was forced to remain several hours of the night in a barn belonging to a cottage, being unwilling to call up the inhabitants, to whom she was well known.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I went over and opened it and found in the corridor without, Arthur and Quincey in pajamas and slippers: the former spoke:—I heard your man call up Dr. Van Helsing and tell him of an accident.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

One dirty-faced man, I think he was a boot-maker, used to edge himself into the passage as early as seven o'clock in the morning, and call up the stairs to Mr. Micawber—“Come!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I then desired the governor to call up Descartes and Gassendi, with whom I prevailed to explain their systems to Aristotle.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Then she drew her hand over her eyes, for one of her boyish habits was never to know where her handkerchief was, and had just managed to call up a smile when there came a knock at the porch door.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The two gentlemen, who conducted me to the island, were pressed by their private affairs to return in three days, which I employed in seeing some of the modern dead, who had made the greatest figure, for two or three hundred years past, in our own and other countries of Europe; and having been always a great admirer of old illustrious families, I desired the governor would call up a dozen or two of kings, with their ancestors in order for eight or nine generations.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)