A call is a notice that allows you to start a communication.
Call is the action and effect of invoking, summoning, citing or naming someone or something . There are various uses, however, of this concept.
It is said that someone calls another person when they make gestures or communicate through speech so that they come or respond. Some examples of this use may be the following: “I have to make a phone call to let you know that I am going to be late,” “Sir, you have a call from Dr. López.”
The record that remains on a mobile phone when a person tries to communicate from another is known as a missed call . Sometimes it is used to notify that person to contact you by phone, in this case it is usually known in some regions as "call and hang up" or "give the phone a ring."
Call in a text
A call is also a signal or warning that is made in a printed or handwritten document .
Its function is to draw the reader's attention to a place where a note , a correction , a warning , a quote , a reference or another type of message is included: “In the callout on page thirty-eight, Ernesto's book is mentioned. Saturday.”
The term in the military field
In the military environment, a call is a call for the troops to enter formation. It is also the signal that, using the bugle or the box, used to be made from one field to another with the intention of parleying.
In this way it could be used both within a group or to communicate with an enemy side, taking into account the military codes shared between the various armies.
In the military sector, the call is a call for a troop to stand in formation.
Movie "The Call"
In the cinematographic field, there are a series of horror films that, using the telephone call as a fundamental trigger for the plot of their stories, propose a reality in which a person's life is shortened due to a curse that falls on them, after have responded to that call.
"The Call" , also known as "The Signal" or "The Hoop" in various Spanish-speaking countries, was the first to appear and was a Japanese production from 1998 , titled "Ringu" in its original language and which had an American version ( "The ring" ). This story is based on a novel by writer Kôji Suzuki and has achieved great popularity among films in the horror genre.
The concept in international relations
In the field of relations between various countries, there is a concept known as the call effect , which refers to the invitation that members of one country receive to migrate to another in search of a fruitful exchange for both and, above all, assuring them decent economic and social stability. In this way, the sending of a transportation ticket is called a call ticket so that said immigrant can move to this new country without having to pay for it.
In Spain, the concept of knock effect was used by the Popular Party ( PP ) when it launched the process of regulating immigrants in 2005 so that those who wished to arrive on the peninsula had the peace of mind that there they would find not only a job but also a quality of life assured by the Spanish State itself.
This project is considered responsible for the great wave of immigration that occurred in this country starting that year and which for many is one of the main causes of the subsequent economic crisis; They assure that the Spanish government manifested an economic solidity that it did not possess and that was reflected in the consequences that this country must currently face. In turn, many claim that the great wave of illegal immigration to Spain responds to this poorly organized and poorly carried out proposal by the Spanish government.