Calle
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Calle
A kind of head covering; a caul.
Beck and call - Someone who does everything for you, no matter when you ask, is at your beck and call.
Call a spade a spade - A person who calls a spade a spade is one speaks frankly and makes little or no attempt to conceal their opinions or to spare the feelings of their audience.
Call it a day - If you call it a day, you stop doing something for a while, normally at least until the following day.
Call on the carpet - If you are called on the carpet, you are summoned for a reprimand by superiors or others in power.
Call the dogs off - If someone calls off their dogs, they stop attacking or criticising someone.
Call the shots - If you call the shots, you are in charge and tell people what to do.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary See Caul
Sixty-five percent of roadside service calls are for problems with trailer tires, found a Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company survey of its emergency call center. refrigeratedtrans.com
Comedy Rod Lott Don't call them "zombies" — call them "dissidents". okgazette.com
You call the fire department but your call isn't answered because every fire fighter in town is debating whether there will be enough water to fight fires over the next ten years, even though water is plentiful right now. pbs.org
If we want God's continued blessings and protection, then we must as a nation repent, and not call something "good" that God calls "evil. columbiadailyherald.com
Whether you lower the texture amount or not is totally your call, but you'll make that call based on the skin of your particular subject. ppmag.com
" It is hard to know what to say to such virulent name-calling except to murmur, shyly, "You called. nybooks.com
While the boom was being lifted out, Mission Control called up and asked Commander Frick to call them on a private channel. nss.org
The mother to a victim of the so-called Speed Freak Killers is calling for an internal investigation of the San Joaquin County Sheriff. kcra.com
I was called into the office of the summer camp I was attending for a call from my father. pbs.org
Ahead of a emergency meeting called by Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie that night about the barn, Simmons called plans for the barn "illogical" and surveys of residents' views about the streetcars "phoney baloney. ashingtoncitypaper.com
The latest Nickispy variant can intercept incoming calls without the user's knowledge while sending call logs, text messages and other information to a remote server. eweek.com
The largest US bank by assets disclosed the $2 billion trading loss on May 10 in a hastily-called conference call with investors and journalists. chronicle.augusta.com
Right around Christmas, as I was searching for some cooler than your average X-Mas style sounds for 88Nine, I came upon a really nice one from a band called Poly Styrene called "Black Christmas". radiomilwaukee.org
"Call me the fire/Call me the air," sings Beth Orton on her fifth LP. rollingstone.com
In the old days, police would call the telephone company and ask that the hostage- taker 's phone number be changed immediately so no one else could call it, said Gary Noesner, a former chief of the FBI's crisis negotiation unit. timesleader.com
The vertex v = (b, p), from which there are no outgoing edges is called, is called final and has a factor f (v) = Gb,p .
Gibbs and Quantum Discrete Spaces
Contribution of the tree T we call the following product f (T ) = Yv∈V (T ) The tree is called final if to each its final vertex corresponds the point (0, 0).
Gibbs and Quantum Discrete Spaces
Vertex v ∈ V (γ ) ⊂ V (G) of a regular subgraph γ of G is called internal (to γ ), if any of its incident edges connects v with another vertex of γ , and call it boundary otherwise.
Gibbs and Quantum Discrete Spaces
The class Composite Zfuncs translates a simplified form of a call to the elementary Z functions (Elementary Zfuncs) into a full calling sequence.
AMEGIC++ 1.0, A Matrix Element Generator In C++
The minimal elements in this partial ordering are called ergodic sets, and nonminimal elements are called transient sets.
The temporal calculus of conditional objects and conditional events
We call her that because my other sister Electa has a daughter she calls Bessy. "A Little Girl in Old Boston" by
Men and women smiled and called his name. "The Root of Evil" by
I think, Sophia, the Levitts will certainly call. "Deerbrook" by
How was it he had not heard their calls to him? "Chatterbox, 1906" by
Is the urgency of her call now less great than it was then? "A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention" by
I called upon him and we were not long in striking a bargain. "Twenty Years of Hus'ling" by
That was near a little town called Fort Mitchell and Silver Rim where they put the men in jail. "Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4" by
I call that sharp practice, Frau Schimmelweis, that's what I call it. "The Goose Man" by
I am called Douglas Graham. "The Day of Judgment" by
And now the goody had waited seven lengths and seven breadths for her husband to come and call them home to dinner; but never a call they had. "Children's Literature" by
were numerous and today
snow is their calling
card I'll not be cordial
Without a castle wall,
Within, a hapless maid
Responded to his call.
They called me worse.
You'd do grand things, sir,
But lack the purse?
Rising, falling,
Loud and low and loud again,
Voices calling.
Smoke above the spring,
An uncanny calling
Made the forest ring.
Sought a service all about;
But they called him feeble, one
They could do without.