15 Phrasal Verbs with CALL: call up, call out, call around!!!!!!!!!

 

1. Call afterTo give a child the same name as someone else, especially a family member

• We have called him Benjamin after his father.

2. Call around / Call roundTo go to someone’s house to visit them

• I called around yesterday but you weren’t there.

3. Call awayTo ask someone to go somewhere else

• I am afraid the doctor was called away on an emergency earlier today, but he should be back soon.

4. Call backTo return a phone call or to phone someone again

• He’s on another call at the moment, but I will get him to call you back.

To return to a place

• She said I could call back later today to collect the laundry.

To be asked to return for a second interview or a second audition

• They are only going to call back 4 people out of the 80 people who went for the first interview.

5. Call forPublicly demand that something be done

• The protesters were calling for the resignation of the president.

To require or make necessary

• John got the job! This news calls for a celebration!

To go somewhere to pick someone or something up

• I will call for you around seven – try to be ready on time!
• 6. Call forthTo elicit a reaction
  
• Bernard insulted his wife’s mother, which called forth an angry response from her.

7. Call inTo phone

• The radio station’s listeners have been calling in all morning with answers to the quiz.

To visit someone

• Can you call in on your grandmother on your way home and make sure she is alright?

To ask a person, especially an expert, to come to do something

• We had to call in fumigators to deal with the mice and cockroaches.

To ask someone to enter a room

• My boss called me in to his office yesterday morning to give me a warning because I came to work late three times this week.

8. Call offTo cancel an organised event

• Sandra called off the wedding at the very last minute!

To stop doing an activity
We had to call off the search when it became too dark to continue
9. Call onTo visit someone

• I am going to call on my mother on the way home from work.

To demand or request that someone do something

• The supporters of the opposition called on the government to call a new election.

To use a quality, usually something that requires a great effort, in order to achieve something

• I had to call on all my strength to finish the marathon.

Have recourse to

• We may need to call on experts in the field for their opinion on the matter.

To ask for an answer or response

• The teacher always calls on me for the answer – it’s not fair!

10. Call upTo phone somebody

• I will call up everyone we’d invited and tell them that we have called off the party.

Select someone to play on a team

• He was called up to play for Spain in the World Cup.

To summon for military service, especially during a war

• When the war broke out, he was terrified that he would be called up.

To make you remember or recall something

• Seeing her again called up all those old memories.

To make information in a computer appear on screen

• This icon will call up the menu.
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•  11. Call out
  Order or request help from someone
  
• They called out the fire services when they saw the flames.

12. Call roundTo visit someone

• Thank you for calling round, I really appreciate it.

13. Call atStop at a harbour, port or station

• This train will be calling at every station on the way to London.

14. Call by
To visit somewhere briefly whilst on your way to somewhere else.

• I thought it my might be nice to call by Aunt Betty’s house on our way to Bristol.

15. Call down
To find fault with; reprimand

• My professor is a perfectionist and always calls me down for such minor errors!

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