calling up
Ringing a friend
Calling up covers summoning someone or something into action or awareness.
You might call up a friend on the phone, call up memories from childhood, or call up a file on your computer.
In military contexts, calling up means activating reserves or conscripting soldiers for service: The government is calling up all men between eighteen and thirty-five.
Athletes get called up when promoted from minor leagues to the majors.
Mandatory military enrollment
- enlistmentVoluntary entry into service
- inductionFormal admission process
- draftPreliminary version of text
- selective serviceCompulsory military enrollment system
draftee · mobilization · activation · reservist · deployment · recruit · national service · draft board
Recalling past experiences
- flashbackInvoluntary past memory
- nostalgiaLonging for the past
- recollectionRecalled mental image
- retrievalAct of getting back
recollect · reminisce · memories · retrospection · evocation · yearning · longing · past
Ritual to contact spirits
- mediumshipCommunicating with the dead
- channelingDirecting flow or energy
- summoningCalling forth deliberately
- conjuringPerforming magical illusions
invocation · necromancy · spirits · apparition · ghosts · psychic · clairvoyance · supernatural
Performing magical illusions
- invocationCalling upon higher authority
- summoningCalling forth deliberately
- incantationSpoken magical formula
- ritualCeremonial set of actions
evocation · spellcasting · sorcery · enchantment · wizardry · occult · shamanism · demon
Stirring to heightened state
- rousingExciting strong feeling
- stirringArousing strong emotion
- awakeningReturn to consciousness
- revivalReturn after decline
stimulation · activation · alertness · quickening · consciousness · resurgence · rebirth · dawning
conscription
Mandatory military enrollment
- enlistmentVoluntary entry into service
- inductionFormal admission process
- draftPreliminary version of text
selective service · draftee · mobilization · activation · reservist · deployment · recruit · national service · draft board · service number
reminiscence
Recalling past experiences
- flashbackInvoluntary past memory
- nostalgiaLonging for the past
- recollectionRecalled mental image
retrieval · recollect · reminisce · memories · retrospection · evocation · yearning · longing · past · bygone
seance
Ritual to contact spirits
- mediumshipCommunicating with the dead
- channelingDirecting flow or energy
- summoningCalling forth deliberately
conjuring · invocation · necromancy · spirits · apparition · ghosts · psychic · clairvoyance · supernatural · paranormal
conjuring
Performing magical illusions
- invocationCalling upon higher authority
- summoningCalling forth deliberately
- incantationSpoken magical formula
ritual · evocation · spellcasting · sorcery · enchantment · wizardry · occult · shamanism · demon · familiar
arousal
Stirring to heightened state
revival · stimulation · activation · alertness · quickening · consciousness · resurgence · rebirth · dawning · realization
- mobilizingmobilizing, rallying, organizing, mustering, marshaling
- retrievalfetch, fetching, retrieving, recovering, reclaiming
calling uptexting
Sending typed mobile messages
emailing · instant messaging · faxing · mailing · DMing
calling updischarging
Releasing or letting go
demobilizing · mustering out · releasing · deactivating · standing down
calling upsuppressing
Forcibly restraining or inhibiting
forgetting · dismissing · storing away · burying · repressing
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