Call or Calls may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Games

* Call, a type of betting in poker * Call, in the game of contract bridge, a bid, pass, double, or redouble in the bidding stage

Music and dance

* Call (band), from Lahore, Pakistan * Call, a command in square dancing, delivered by a caller * "

Call / I4U "Call" / "I4U" s the 29th single by Japanese pop group AAA. It is included in the group's second best of album '' AAA Best''. The song was written by Kenn Kato and Mitsuhiro Hidaka. The single was released in Japan on August 31, 2011, under Ave ...

", a 2011 single by Japanese music group AAA * "Call", a 2002 song by Ashanti from her album '' Ashanti'' * "Call" (Stray Kids song), 2021

Film

* ''Call'' (film), or ''The Call'', 2020 South Korean film * ''Calls'' (film), 2021 Indian Tamil-language crime thriller film

Television

* ''Calls'' (TV series), a mystery thriller TV series on Apple TV+

Finance

Call on shares A partly paid share is a share in a company which has only partial been paid compared to the par value, with the understanding that as the company requires more funds, calls will be made from time to time to request more money until the shares are ...

, a request for a further payment on partly paid share capital *

Call option In finance, a call option, often simply labeled a "call", is a contract between the buyer and the seller of the call option to exchange a security at a set price. The buyer of the call option has the right, but not the obligation, to buy an ...

, a term in stock trading

Science and technology

Computing

* Call, a shell command in DOS, OS/2 and Microsoft Windows command-line interpreters * Call, a method of starting a

subroutine In computer programming, a function or subroutine is a sequence of program instructions that performs a specific task, packaged as a unit. This unit can then be used in programs wherever that particular task should be performed. Functions may ...

* Computer-assisted language learning, a concept in language education * System call, in computer science, the mechanism used by an application program to request service from the operating system or another application program

Nature

Animal communication Animal communication is the transfer of information from one or a group of animals (sender or senders) to one or more other animals (receiver or receivers) that affects the current or future behavior of the receivers. Information may be sent int ...

, a song or noise made by an animal such as: ** Bird call, a type of bird vocalization ** Mating call, animal communication to attract a sexual partner *

Game call A game call is a device that is used to mimic animal noises to attract or drive animals to a hunter. Animal species attracted to game calls include deer, turkey, ducks, geese, moose, elk, raccoons, wild pigs, coyotes, bears, wolves, cougars, foxes ...

, a device that is used to animal communication noises to attract or drive animals to a hunter

Telecommunications

* Call, an attempt to set up a telecommunication circuit * Call, in teletraffic engineering, a unit of traffic measurement * Call origination, in telephony * Call sign, in broadcasting and radio communications, a unique designation for a transmitting station * Telephone call

Other uses

* Call (surname) * Religious calling * Call, Texas, a community in the south-central United States * CALL,

U.S. Army Center for Army Lessons Learned The Center for Army Lessons Learned (CALL) continuously leads the Army Lessons Learned Program and identifies, collects, analyzes, disseminates, and archives lessons and best practices while maintaining global situational awareness in order to share ...

* CALL, Center for Anglican Learning & Leadership at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific