Definition of calling

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Calling (n.) The act of one who calls; a crying aloud, esp. in order to summon, or to attact the attention of, some one..

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Calling :: Calling (n.) A naming, or inviting; a reading over or reciting in order, or a call of names with a view to obtaining an answer, as in legislative bodies..
Recall :: Recall (n.) A calling back; a revocation.
Southcottian :: Southcottian (n.) A follower of Joanna Southcott (1750-1814), an Englishwoman who, professing to have received a miraculous calling, preached and prophesied, and committed many impious absurdities..
Suggestive :: Suggestion (n.) The act or power of originating or recalling ideas or relations, distinguished as original and relative; -- a term much used by Scottish metaphysicians from Hutcherson to Thomas Brown..
Invocation :: Invocation (n.) The act or form of calling for the assistance or presence of some superior being; earnest and solemn entreaty; esp., prayer offered to a divine being..
Calling :: Calling (n.) The persons, collectively, engaged in any particular professions or employment..
Copy :: Copy (n.) Manuscript or printed matter to be set up in type; as, the printers are calling for more copy..
Appellation :: Appellation (n.) The act of calling by a name.
Redirect :: Redirect (a.) Applied to the examination of a witness, by the party calling him, after the cross-examination..
Arraignment :: Arraignment (n.) A calling to an account to faults; accusation.
Avocation :: Avocation (n.) A calling away; a diversion.
Circuit :: Circuit (n.) A regular or appointed journeying from place to place in the exercise of one's calling, as of a judge, or a preacher..
Sevocation :: Sevocation (n.) A calling aside.
Auld Lang Syne :: Auld lang syne () A Scottish phrase used in recalling recollections of times long since past.
Fiddler :: Fiddler (n.) A burrowing crab of the genus Gelasimus, of many species. The male has one claw very much enlarged, and often holds it in a position similar to that in which a musician holds a fiddle, hence the name; -- called also calling crab, soldier crab, and fighting crab..
Impeachment :: Impeachment (n.) A calling to account; arraignment; especially, of a public officer for maladministration..
Toll :: Toll (v. i.) To sound or ring, as a bell, with strokes uniformly repeated at intervals, as at funerals, or in calling assemblies, or to announce the death of a person..
Low :: Low (v. i.) To make the calling sound of cows and other bovine animals; to moo.
Profession :: Profession (v.) That of which one professed knowledge; the occupation, if not mechanical, agricultural, or the like, to which one devotes one's self; the business which one professes to understand, and to follow for subsistence; calling; vocation; employment; as, the profession of arms; the profession of a clergyman, lawyer, or physician; the profession of lecturer on chemistry..
Vocation :: Vocation (n.) A calling by the will of God.
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