different between trial vs call

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?a??l/
• Rhymes: -a??l
• Hyphenation: tri?al

Etymology 1

From Middle English trial, triall, from Anglo-Norman trial, triel, from trier (“to pick out, cull”) + -al. More at English try.

Noun

trial (plural trials)

1. An opportunity to test something out; a test.

   They will perform the trials for the new equipment next week.

2. Appearance at judicial court in order to be examined.
3. A difficult or annoying experience.

   That boy was a trial to his parents.

4. A tryout to pick members of a team.

   soccer trials

5. (ceramics) A piece of ware used to test the heat of a kiln.
6. (Britain) An internal examination set by Eton College.

Translations

Adjective

trial (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to a trial or test.
2. Attempted on a provisional or experimental basis.

Translations

Verb

trial (third-person singular simple present trials, present participle (UK) trialling or (US) trialing, simple past and past participle (UK) trialled or (US) trialed)

1. To carry out a series of tests on (a new product, procedure etc.) before marketing or implementing it.
2. To try out (a new player) in a sports team.

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Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Latin tri- (stem of tr?s (“three”)) + -al, on the pattern of dual.

Adjective

trial (not comparable)

1. Characterized by having three (usually equivalent) components.
2. Triple.
3. (grammar) Pertaining to a language form referring to three of something, like people; contrast singular, dual and plural. (See Ambai language for an example.)

   No language has a trial number unless it has a dual.

Derived terms

• triality

Translations

See also

• (grammatical numbers) grammatical number; singular, dual, trial, quadral, paucal, plural ^{(Category: en:Grammar)}

Anagrams

• TRALI, Trail, irtal, litra, trail

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English trial.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: tri?al

Noun

trial m (plural trials, diminutive trialtje n)

1. Cross with small but sturdy and very versatile motorcycles, cars or bicycles

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English trial.

Noun

trial m (invariable)

1. (sports) trials (motorcycle etc)

Anagrams

• altri, latri, tarli

Old French

Etymology

trier (“to try such as in a court of law”) +? -al.

Noun

trial m (oblique plural triaus or triax or trials, nominative singular triaus or triax or trials, nominative plural trial)

1. trial (legal procedure)

Usage notes

• due to lack of attestation, the precise meaning is uncertain

Descendants

• ? English: trial

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (trial)
• trial on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

English

Etymology

From Middle English callen, from Old English ceallian (“to call, shout”) and Old Norse kalla (“to call; shout; refer to as; name”); both from Proto-Germanic *kalz?n? (“to call, shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *gal(o)s-, *gl?s-, *golH-so- (“voice, cry”). Cognate with Scots call, caw, ca (“to call, cry, shout”), Dutch kallen (“to chat, talk”), German dialectal kallen (“to talk; talk loudly or too much”), Swedish kalla (“to call, refer to, beckon”), Norwegian kalle (“to call, name”), Icelandic kalla (“to call, shout, name”), Welsh galw (“to call, demand”), Polish g?os (“voice”), Lithuanian gal?sas (“echo”), Russian ????? (golos, “voice”), Albanian gjuhë (“language, tongue”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kôl, IPA^(key): /k??l/, [k?o?],
• (General American) IPA^(key): /k?l/, [k???]
• (US, cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /k?l/, [k???]
• Homophone: coll (with the cot-caught merger)
• Rhymes: -??l

Noun

call (plural calls)

1. A telephone conversation; a phone call.

2. An instance of calling someone on the telephone.

3. A short visit, usually for social purposes.
4. (nautical) A visit by a ship or boat to a port.

5. A cry or shout.

6. A decision or judgement.

7. The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.

8. A beckoning or summoning.
9. The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor.

10. (finance) An option to buy stock at a specified price during or at a specified time.
11. (cricket) The act of calling to the other batsman.
12. (cricket) The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.)
13. A work shift which requires one to be available when requested (see on call).
    • 1978, Alan E. Nourse, The Practice,^[1] Harper & Row, ?ISBN:

      page 48: “Mondays would be great, especially after a weekend of call.”

      page 56: “[...] I’ve got call tonight, and all weekend, but I’ll be off tomorrow to help you some.”

    • 2007, William D. Bailey, You Will Never Run out of Jesus, CrossHouse Publishing, ?ISBN:

      page 29: I took general-surgery call at Bossier Medical Center and asked special permission to take general-medical call, which was gladly given away by the older staff members: [...]. You would be surprised at how many surgical cases came out of medical call.

      page 206: My first night of primary medical call was greeted about midnight with a very ill 30-year-old lady who had a temperature of 103 degrees.

    • 2008, Jamal M. Bullocks [et al.], Plastic Surgery Emergencies: Principles and Techniques, Thieme, ?ISBN, page ix:

      We attempted to include all topics that we ourselves have faced while taking plastic surgery call at the affiliated hospitals in the Texas Medical Center, one of the largest medical centers in the world, which sees over 100,000 patients per day.
14. (computing) The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.
15. A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.

17. (poker) The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.
18. A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt.
19. (nautical) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.
20. A pipe or other instrument to call birds or animals by imitating their note or cry. A game call.
21. An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
22. (archaic) Vocation; employment; calling.
23. (US, law) A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a corresponding object, etc., on the land.
24. (informal, slang, prostitution) A meeting with a client for paid sex; hookup; job.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

call (third-person singular simple present calls, present participle calling, simple past and past participle called or call'd)

1. To use one's voice.
   1. (intransitive) To request, summon, or beckon.
   2. (intransitive) To cry or shout.
   3. (transitive) To utter in a loud or distinct voice.
   4. (transitive, intransitive) To contact by telephone.

   5. (transitive) To declare in advance.

   6. To rouse from sleep; to awaken.
   7. To declare (an effort or project) to be a failure.

2. (heading, intransitive) To visit.
   1. To pay a (social) visit (often used with "on", "round", or "at"; used by salespeople with "again" to invite customers to come again).
   2. To stop at a station or port.

3. To name, identify or describe.
   1. (ditransitive) To name or refer to.
   2. (in passive) Of a person, to have as one's name; of a thing, to have as its name.
   3. (transitive) To predict.

   4. To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact.
      • 1842, Henry Brougham, Political Philosophy:

        The whole army is called 700,000 men

   5. (transitive) To claim the existence of some malfeasance; to denounce as.
   6. (obsolete) To disclose the class or character of; to identify.
4. (heading, sports) Direct or indirect use of the voice.
   1. (cricket) (of a batsman): To shout directions to the other batsman on whether or not they should take a run.
   2. (baseball, cricket) (of a fielder): To shout to other fielders that he intends to take a catch (thus avoiding collisions).
   3. (intransitive, poker) To equal the same amount that other players are currently betting.

   4. (intransitive, poker, proscribed) To match the current bet amount, in preparation for a raise in the same turn. (Usually, players are forbidden to announce one's play this way.)

   5. (transitive) To state, or invoke a rule, in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.

5. (transitive, sometimes with for) To require, demand.
6. (transitive, colloquial) To lay claim to an object or role which is up for grabs.
7. (transitive, finance) To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
8. (transitive, banking) To demand repayment of a loan.
9. (transitive, computing) To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.

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Usage notes

• In older forms of English, when the pronoun thou was in active use, and verbs used -est for distinct second-person singular indicative forms, the verb call had the form callest, and had calledst for its past tense.
• Similarly, when the ending -eth was in active use for third-person singular present indicative forms, the form calleth was used.

Synonyms

• (cry or shout): holler, yell; see also Thesaurus:shout
• (contact by telephone): drop a line, ring, get on the horn, give someone a ring, give someone a bell; see also Thesaurus:telephone
• (rouse from sleep): wake up; see also Thesaurus:awaken
• (name or refer to): designate, dub, name; see also Thesaurus:denominate
• (predict): augur, foretell; see also Thesaurus:predict

Derived terms

Translations

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ka?/

Etymology 1

From Latin callis (“alley, narrow street, passageway”)

Noun

call m (plural calls)

1. passageway

Etymology 2

From Latin callum.

Noun

call m (uncountable)

1. corn

Derived terms

• call de la mà
• callera

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Hebrew ?????? (qahál, “assembly, synagogue”).

Noun

call m (plural calls)

1. Jewish quarter

   Synonym: jueria

Further reading

• “call” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Irish

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Alternative forms

• cál

Noun

call m (genitive singular call)

1. call, need
2. claim, right

Declension

Derived terms

• gan chall (“needlessly”)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /kal??/

Noun

call m (genitive singular caill)

1. Ulster form of coll (“hazel”)

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

• "call" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “call” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “call” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

call m (genitive singular calla, plural callaidhean)

1. verbal noun of caill
2. loss
3. waste

Derived terms

• call cumhachd

Mutation

Welsh

Adjective

call (feminine singular call, plural call, equative called, comparative callach, superlative callaf)

1. wise, sensible, rational

   Synonyms: doeth, deallus

Derived terms

• callineb (“wisdom, rationality”)
• callio (“to become wise”)

Mutation