call at

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Verb

call at - enter a harbor; "the ship called in Athens"

come in, enter, get in, go in, go into, move into, get into - to come or go into; "the boat entered an area of shallow marshes"

Translations

w>call at

vi +prep obj (person) → vorbeigehen bei; (Rail) → halten in (+dat); (Naut) → anlaufen; a train for Lisbon calling at … → ein Zug nach Lissabon über …

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Every day we were in the Gardens we paid a call at the nest, taking care that no cruel boy should see us, and we dropped crumbs, and soon the bird knew us as friends, and sat in the nest looking at us kindly with her shoulders hunched up.

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multiplicata males who call at the species-typical rate rather than near the faster, frequency offer additional reassurance to the would-be discriminating female.

Single singing male toad seeks same

Based on the Service's definition, if stock closed at 104 3/4 and call options were traded with strike prices at 105, 100, 95, 90, 85, down to below 50, a call at 100 would not have been deep in the money, while one at 95 would have been.