calling

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UK /ˈkɔːlɪŋ/ US /ˈkɔlɪŋ/

noun 2

Collocations

ADJ.

'ugly', early, lost, sweeping

She felt an early calling to become a teacher and never looked back.

VERB + CALLING

accustomed, excuse, heard, leave, look, party, point, resorted

I heard calling from the next room and went to investigate.

CALLING + NOUN

buildings, chatterbox, flight, girls, i've, shorty

I heard someone calling my name across the crowded airport terminal.

PREP.

from, in, on, up

I felt called in to help my neighbour when she needed assistance moving house.

ADV.

such

She was calling such awful names at the driver that everyone turned around.

Definitions

noun

A strong urge (to do some particular thing with or in one's life, for example to become religious, to help the poor, or to be an entertainer).

A job or occupation.

Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — the particular occupation for which you are trained

career
vocation

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

pot calling the kettle black

A situation in which somebody comments on or accuses someone else of a fault which the accuser shares.

I think it's a case of the pot calling the kettle black when she says he is obsessive.

who's calling

Used by a phone call receiver to ask the identity of the caller.

Example Bank

Wiktionary

Sven was so verbose that his friends resorted to calling him a chatterbox.

Tatoeba · #1939

Now I have to leave, they're calling for my flight.

Tatoeba · #2230

I heard someone calling me from a distance.

Tatoeba · #25846

Stop calling me names. That'll do you no good.

Tatoeba · #28584

He got mad at me for calling him Shorty.

Tatoeba · #33569

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