NTC's Pocket Dictionary of Words and Phrases part 12. The small but very concise NTC's Pocket Dictionary of Words and Phrases offers 6,000 basic and common English words plus 6,000 basic and common English idioms and phrases. You will find this portable title essential in the classroom, at home, or traveling, when you need help to recall word and phrase meanings. | call up on someone call up on someone 1. to visit someone. 2. to choose someone to respond as in a classroom. call upon someone for something to choose someone to do or to help with some particular task. caller kol 1. n. someone who makes a telephone call. 2. n. a visitor. calm kam 1. adj. quiet serene at peace. Adv calmly. Comp calmer sup calmest. 2. n. a time or feeling of peace and quiet. No plural. calm down to relax to become less busy or active. calm someone or some creature down to soothe someone or some creature to cause someone or some creature to relax. calorie kAl @ ri n. a unit of energy supplied by food. calves kAvz plural of calf. came kem past tense of come. camel kAm@l n. a large desert animal with one or two fatty humps on its back. That s the straw that broke the camel s back. camera kAm @ r@ 1. n. a device that takes pictures a device that makes photographs. 2. n. a device that records live action for television or movies. camp kAmp 1. n. a remote or rural temporary residence such as for soldiers pioneers refugees people on vacation etc. 2. n. a remote or rural place where children are sent in the summer. 3. n. a permanent living area for training and retraining members of various military organizations. 4. iv. to take a vacation in a natural setting to stay outside in a remote or rural area sleeping in a tent or a camper instead of a hotel. BREAK CAMP HAVE A FOOT IN BOTH CAMPS PITCH CAMP camp out to live out of doors temporarily in a tent or camping vehicle as on a vacation or special camping trip. campaign kAm pen 1. n. the period of time before an election when the candidates try to persuade people to vote for them. 2. n. a coordinated series of events with a specific goal or purpose. See also a smear campaign against someone . camper kAm p 1. n. someone who camps R someone who takes a vacation in a rural or remote area. 2. n. a special vehicle designed for camping. campfire kAmp fai n. a fire that campers cook on and sit around at night to .
