calls up

Rings on phone

Calls up means to summon or bring forth.

A draft calls up soldiers for military service.

Memory calls up the past: The smell called up childhood summers.

To call someone up is to telephone them, or in sports, to promote a player from a minor league to the majors: They called him up from Triple-A.

On a computer, you call up a file or program by opening it.

Related

conscripts · military service · active duty · nostalgia · recollection · dials · mobilize · drafts · army reserves · name · convene · reminds · speed dial · rings · triggers · memory · assemble · stirs

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Opposites
communication method

calls uptexts

Digital short messages

emails · messages · ignores · ghosts · faxes

military/summons direction

calls updischarges

Releases or sends forth

demobilizes · releases · deactivates · stands down · dismisses

memory/retrieval direction

calls upsuppresses

Actively prevents expression

represses · forgets · buries · dismisses · pushes away

Family

call, recall, calling, called, calls, caller, call up, recalled, recalling

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G