call upとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

call up (third-person singular simple present calls up, present participle calling up, simple past and past participle called up)

1. (transitive) To retrieve from personal or computer memory.
   • 1976 April 17, A. Nolder Gay, “The View from the Closet”, in Gay Community News, page 13:

     I remember looking in the card catalogue of the main Public Library under "Homosexuality" and not daring to call up the books because "they" might think I was one.

   • 2017 July 27, Tony Leondis, “The Emoji Movie is Inside Out crossed with a Sony commercial and dunked in toxic ooze”, in The Onion AV Club‎:

     The Emoji Movie takes place in “Textopolis,” where emojis maintain their assigned expression with no deviation, waiting to be called up for their on-screen appearance as needed.

2. (transitive) To summon (someone) to report for military service.
   • 2022 March 4, John Branch, “He Won an Olympic Silver for Ukraine. Now He’s Hiding in a Kyiv Garage.”, in The New York Times‎:

     “I don’t know if I’ll go to war or not, I don’t know what process the guys who are being called up are going through,” he wrote. “At the moment, our army is fully coping with the offensives of Russian soldiers and equipment.”

3. (transitive) To select e.g. to a sports squad.

   Dean Ashton was called up to the England squad for the first time.

4. (transitive, idiomatic) To call on the telephone.

   Synonym: ring up

   • 1951, J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 25:

     You take that book Of Human Bondage, by Somerset Maugham, though. I read it last summer. It’s a pretty good book and all, but I wouldn’t want to call Somerset Maugham up. I don’t know. He just isn't the kind of a guy I'd want to call up, that's all.

   • 2012, Jeff Bhasker, Nate Ruess, Andrew Dost, Jack Antonoff, “Some Nights”, in Some Nights), performed by fun.:

     The other night, you wouldn't believe
     The dream I just had about you and me
     I called you up, but we both agree
     It's for the best you didn't listen

派生語

参考

• commandeer

アナグラム

• upcall

語源

Deverbal from call up.

名詞

call-up (plural call-ups)

1. An order to report for military service.
   • 2011 October 23, Tom Fordyce, “2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France”, in BBC Sport‎:

     Fly-half Aaron Cruden hyper-extended his knee horribly in contact and was carried off the pitch, forcing Graham Henry to bring on Donald - a man who was fishing for whitebait a fortnight ago before injuries to Dan Carter and Colin Slade triggered his emergency call-up.

   • 2015, Charles H. Harris, Louis R. Sadler, The Great Call-Up, page 6:

     In addition, the call-up placed an enormous strain on the nation's railroads, suddenly faced with having to provide hundreds of trains to rush guardsmen to the border.

   • 2025 May 7, Ben Morse, “‘Proud of you’: Cristiano Ronaldo’s eldest son earns first call-up for Portugal Under-15 national team”, in CNN‎:

     Cristiano Ronaldo’s eldest son has earned his first call-up for the Portugal Under-15 national squad, the team announced on Tuesday.

   • 2025 November 13, Kate Connolly, “Germany decides against conscription to replenish post-cold war military”, in The Guardian‎:

     There will be financial and other incentives to encourage voluntary recruitment, but if that fails to find the numbers a compulsory nationwide call-up will be reconsidered.

派生語

アナグラム

• upcall