call up

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To retrieve from personal or computer memory.

   “I remember looking in the card catalogue of the main Public Library under "Homosexuality" and not daring to call up the books because "they" might think I was one.”

2. fiil To summon (someone) to report for military service.

   ““I don’t know if I’ll go to war or not, I don’t know what process the guys who are being called up are going through,” he wrote. “At the moment, our army is fully coping with the offensives of Russian soldiers and equipment.””

3. fiil To select e.g. to a sports squad.

   “Dean Ashton was called up to the England squad for the first time.”

4. fiil To call on the telephone.

   “You take that book Of Human Bondage, by Somerset Maugham, though. I read it last summer. It’s a pretty good book and all, but I wouldn’t want to call Somerset Maugham up. I don’t know. He just isn't the kind of a guy I'd want to call up, that's all.”