the call
What referee announces
The call refers to a compelling summons or irresistible pull toward something—often a vocation, duty, or destiny.
Someone answering the call responds to what feels like an external demand: She felt the call to ministry, He answered the call to serve.
The definite article elevates an ordinary summons to something fated or unavoidable.
In specific contexts, the call may refer to a particular awaited decision: We're still waiting on the call from the committee.
- vocationDedicated career path
- alertWarning or watchfulness
- beckoningGesturing for approach
- announcementPublic declaration of information
- instinctInnate behavioral tendency
chirp · broadcast · mission · rallying cry · summons · yearning · intuition · trill · craving · croak · shout · destiny · purpose · howl · cry · longing · desire · answer
- questsquest, seeking, main quest, searching, side quest
the callthe void
Complete absence of matter
aimlessness · purposelessness · spiritual emptiness · meaninglessness
call, recall, calling, called, calls, caller, recalled, recalling, callers