Definition of calling

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Calling (n.) The persons, collectively, engaged in any particular professions or employment..

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Copy :: Copy (n.) Manuscript or printed matter to be set up in type; as, the printers are calling for more copy..
Anamnesis :: Anamnesis (n.) A recalling to mind; recollection.
Recall :: Recall (n.) A calling back; a revocation.
Arraignment :: Arraignment (n.) A calling to an account to faults; accusation.
Emergent :: Emergent (a.) Suddenly appearing; arising unexpectedly; calling for prompt action; urgent.
Crying :: Crying (a.) Calling for notice; compelling attention; notorious; heinous; as, a crying evil..
Avocation :: Avocation (n.) A calling away; a diversion.
Ban :: Ban (n.) A calling together of the king's (esp. the French king's) vassals for military service; also, the body of vassals thus assembled or summoned. In present usage, in France and Prussia, the most effective part of the population liable to military duty and not in the standing army..
Scandalous :: Scandalous (a.) Giving offense to the conscience or moral feelings; exciting reprobation; calling out condemnation.
Recollection :: Recollection (n.) The act of recollecting, or recalling to the memory; the operation by which objects are recalled to the memory, or ideas revived in the mind; reminiscence; remembrance..
Professional :: Professional (a.) Of or pertaining to a profession, or calling; conforming to the rules or standards of a profession; following a profession; as, professional knowledge; professional conduct..
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..
Low :: Low (v. i.) To make the calling sound of cows and other bovine animals; to moo.
Educate :: Educate (v. t.) To bring /// or guide the powers of, as a child; to develop and cultivate, whether physically, mentally, or morally, but more commonly limited to the mental activities or senses; to expand, strengthen, and discipline, as the mind, a faculty, etc.,; to form and regulate the principles and character of; to prepare and fit for any calling or business by systematic instruction; to cultivate; to train; to instruct; as, to educate a child; to educate the eye or the taste..
Revoke :: Revoke (v. t.) Hence, to annul, by recalling or taking back; to repeal; to rescind; to cancel; to reverse, as anything granted by a special act; as, , to revoke a will, a license, a grant, a permission, a law, or the like..
Impeachment :: Impeachment (n.) A calling to account; arraignment; especially, of a public officer for maladministration..
Occupation :: Occupation (n.) That which occupies or engages the time and attention; the principal business of one's life; vocation; employment; calling; trade.
Exciting :: Exciting (a.) Calling or rousing into action; producing excitement; as, exciting events; an exciting story..
Appellation :: Appellation (n.) The act of calling by a name.
Slang :: Slang (n.) Low, vulgar, unauthorized language; a popular but unauthorized word, phrase, or mode of expression; also, the jargon of some particular calling or class in society; low popular cant; as, the slang of the theater, of college, of sailors, etc..
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