call vs term

call

verb
  • To name or refer to. 

  • To require, demand. 

  • To scold. 

  • To rouse from sleep; to awaken. 

  • To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion. 

  • Of a person, to have as one's name; of a thing, to have as its name. 

  • (of a fielder): To shout to other fielders that he intends to take a catch (thus avoiding collisions). 

  • To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact. 

  • To request, summon, or beckon. 

  • To cause to be verbally subjected to. 

  • To state, or invoke a rule, in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on. 

  • To come to pass; to afflict. 

  • To match the current bet amount, in preparation for a raise in the same turn. (Usually, players are forbidden to announce one's play this way.) 

  • To predict. 

  • To contact by telephone. 

  • To pay a (social) visit (often used with "on", "round", or "at"; used by salespeople with "again" to invite customers to come again). 

  • To cry or shout. 

  • To equal the same amount that other players are currently betting. 

  • (of a batsman): To shout directions to the other batsman on whether or not they should take a run. 

  • To stop at a station or port. 

  • To claim the existence of some malfeasance; to denounce as. 

  • To declare (an effort or project) to be a failure. 

  • To utter in a loud or distinct voice. 

  • To formally recognise a death: especially to announce and record the time, place and fact of a person’s death. 

  • To declare in advance. 

  • To request that one's band play (a particular tune). 

  • To lay claim to an object or role which is up for grabs. 

  • To tell in advance which shot one is attempting. 

  • To demand repayment of a loan. 

  • To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium. 

  • To make a decision as a referee or umpire. 

noun
  • A short visit, usually for social purposes. 

  • A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty. 

  • A cry or shout. 

  • A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a corresponding object, etc., on the land. 

  • A lawyer who was called to the bar (became licensed as a lawyer) in a specified year. 

  • The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal. 

  • The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor. 

  • An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor. 

  • An instance of calling someone on the telephone. 

  • Need; necessity. 

  • The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.) 

  • A decision or judgement. 

  • A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on. 

  • A telephone conversation; a phone call. 

  • The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting. 

  • A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt. 

  • A meeting with a client for paid sex; hookup; job. 

  • A beckoning or summoning. 

  • A visit by a ship or boat to a port. 

  • A pipe or other instrument to call birds or animals by imitating their note or cry. A game call. 

  • A work shift which requires one to be available when requested, i.e. on call. 

  • The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point. 

  • The act of calling to the other batsman. 

term

verb
  • To phrase a certain way; to name or call. 

  • To terminate one's employment 

noun
  • A computer program that emulates a physical terminal. 

  • Specifically, the conditions in a legal contract that specify the price and also how and when payment must be made. 

  • A chronological limitation or restriction, a limited timespan. 

  • The time during which legal courts are open. 

  • Certain days on which rent is paid. 

  • Duration of officeholding, or its limit; period in office of fixed length. 

  • The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice. 

  • Relations among people. 

  • That which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary, terminus. 

  • A word or phrase (e.g., noun phrase, verb phrase, open compound), especially one from a specialised area of knowledge; a name for a concept. 

  • Any value (variable or constant) or expression separated from another term by a space or an appropriate character, in an overall expression or table. 

  • The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force. 

  • A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail. 

  • An essential dignity in which unequal segments of every astrological sign have internal rulerships which affect the power and integrity of each planet in a natal chart. 

  • A statue of the upper body, sometimes without the arms, ending in a pillar or pedestal. 

  • With respect to a pregnancy, the period during which birth usually happens (approximately 40 weeks from conception). 

  • One whose employment has been terminated 

  • Part of a year, especially one of the divisions of an academic year. 

  • Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract. 

adj
  • Born or delivered at term. 

How often have the words call and term occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )