Call
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A telephone conversation. A social visit. A cry or shout. A decision or judgement. The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal. A beckoning or summoning. An option to buy stock at a specified price during or at a specified time. The act of calling to the other batsman. The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.) An overnight duty in the hospital. The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the point. A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To request, summon, or beckon. To cry or shout. To contact by telephone. To pay a social visit. To name or refer to. (reflexively: to be called) Of a person, to have as one's name; of a thing, to have as its name. (of a batsman): To shout directions to the other batsman on whether or not they should take a run. (of a fielder): To shout to other fielders that he intends to take a catch (thus avoiding collisions.) To match or equal the amount of poker chips in the pot as the player that bet. (with an object preceded by the preposition for) To require, demand. To state, or invoke a rule, in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on. To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium. To demand repayment of a loan. To predict. To declare in advance. To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.
Example sentence: It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Claim
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A demand of ownership made for something (eg. claim ownership, claim victory).A new statement of truth made about something, usually when the statement has yet to be verified.A demand of ownership for previously unowned land (eg. in the gold rush, oil rush)A legal demand for compensation or damages.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To demand ownership of.To state a new fact.To demand ownership or right to use for land.To demand compensation or damages through the courts.
Example sentence: I just claim to do what I do, which is to sing old songs and try to make them cool.