<span class="searchmatch">first</span> <span class="searchmatch">call</span> (uncountable) Priority on the use of somebody or something, especially an actor if required in a production. 2000, Charles Foster, Stardust...
<span class="searchmatch">call</span> missed <span class="searchmatch">call</span> money <span class="searchmatch">call</span> naked <span class="searchmatch">call</span> nuisance <span class="searchmatch">call</span> phantom abandoned <span class="searchmatch">call</span> phone <span class="searchmatch">call</span> prank <span class="searchmatch">call</span> put-<span class="searchmatch">call</span> roll <span class="searchmatch">call</span> self-<span class="searchmatch">call</span> service <span class="searchmatch">call</span> sick <span class="searchmatch">call</span>...
on a <span class="searchmatch">first</span>-name basis (not comparable) (idiomatic) Having enough familiarity with another person to <span class="searchmatch">call</span> them by their <span class="searchmatch">first</span> name, as opposed to their...
See also: callup and <span class="searchmatch">call</span> up callup Deverbal from <span class="searchmatch">call</span> up. <span class="searchmatch">call</span>-up (plural <span class="searchmatch">call</span>-ups) An order to report for military service. 2011 October 23, Tom Fordyce...
<span class="searchmatch">first</span> port of <span class="searchmatch">call</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">first</span> ports of <span class="searchmatch">call</span>) (nautical) The <span class="searchmatch">first</span> port that a vessel <span class="searchmatch">calls</span> in at after the start of a voyage After leaving from Southampton...
<span class="searchmatch">first</span> ports of <span class="searchmatch">call</span> plural of <span class="searchmatch">first</span> port of <span class="searchmatch">call</span>...
projection <span class="searchmatch">first</span> annual <span class="searchmatch">first</span> art <span class="searchmatch">first</span> article <span class="searchmatch">first</span> baseman <span class="searchmatch">first</span> basing <span class="searchmatch">first</span> best <span class="searchmatch">first</span> bite free <span class="searchmatch">first</span> blood <span class="searchmatch">first</span>-born firstborn <span class="searchmatch">first</span> <span class="searchmatch">call</span> <span class="searchmatch">first</span> catch...
<span class="searchmatch">call</span> by need <span class="searchmatch">call</span>-by-need (uncountable) (programming) An evaluation strategy in which the arguments to a function are evaluated the <span class="searchmatch">first</span> time they are...
<span class="searchmatch">call</span> by value <span class="searchmatch">call</span> by value <span class="searchmatch">call</span>-by-value (uncountable) (programming) An evaluation strategy in which the arguments to a function are evaluated <span class="searchmatch">first</span>...
evaluated <span class="searchmatch">first</span>, and a pointer to the result is passed to the function. Synonym: pass-by-reference Antonym: <span class="searchmatch">call</span>-by-value Translations <span class="searchmatch">call</span>-by-future <span class="searchmatch">call</span>-by-name...