Call or Calls may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Games

* Call, a type of

betting in poker In the game of poker, the play largely centers on the act of betting, and as such, a protocol has been developed to speed up play, lessen confusion, and increase security while playing. Different games are played using different types of bets, a ...

* Call, in the game of

contract bridge Contract bridge, or simply bridge, is a trick-taking card game using a standard 52-card deck. In its basic format, it is played by four players in two competing partnerships, with partners sitting opposite each other around a table. Millions o ...

, a bid, pass, double, or redouble in the bidding stage

Music and dance

Call (band) Call () is a Pakistani rock band from Lahore, Pakistan. The current line-up was formed in 2002, the group consists of Junaid Khan (singer), Junaid Khan (lead vocalist), Zulfiqar Jabbar Khan, Zulfiqar J. Khan (lead guitar, producer) and Muhammad ...

, 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 A ...

", 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 Command may refer to: Computing * Command (computing), a statement in a computer language * COMMAND.COM, the default operating system shell and command-line interpreter for DOS * Command key, a modifier key on Apple Macintosh computer keyboards * ...

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 Computer-assisted language learning (CALL), British, or Computer-Aided Instruction (CAI)/Computer-Aided Language Instruction (CALI), American, is briefly defined in a seminal work by Levy (1997: p. 1) as "the search for and study of applicat ...

, a concept in language education *

System call In computing, a system call (commonly abbreviated to syscall) is the programmatic way in which a computer program requests a service from the operating system on which it is executed. This may include hardware-related services (for example, acc ...

, 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 Bird vocalization includes both bird calls and bird songs. In non-technical use, bird songs are the bird sounds that are melodious to the human ear. In ornithology and birding, songs (relatively complex vocalizations) are distinguished by func ...

, 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