Showing posts with label call. Show all posts
Showing posts with label call. Show all posts

Monday, May 6, 2013

call, caul

Call or call means to summon or to contact, by voice or by telephone--
The children are playing outside; will you call them and tell them it's dinnertime?
Did you call the plumber? The sink's still leaking.
Call is also a noun ( thing or idea ), meaning a summons or attempt to contact--
He came home in answer to her call.
Did you return his call?

Caul or caul ( rhymes with call ) means a close-fitting cap of net or sheer material--
In the evening, she always wore a caul made of fine gold net.
Some people are superstitious about a baby born with a caul.

Now that you know that, you can say--
"We should call a costume designer to find out if this caul looks authentic."