The difference between Call and Ring

Call as a noun:

A telephone conversation.

Call as a noun:

A short visit, usually for social purposes.

Call as a noun (nautical):

A visit by a ship or boat to a port.

Call as a noun:

A cry or shout.

Call as a noun:

A decision or judgement.

Call as a noun:

The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.

Call as a noun:

A beckoning or summoning.

Call as a noun:

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

Call as a noun (finance):

An option to buy stock at a specified price during or at a specified time.

Call as a noun (cricket):

The act of calling to the other batsman.

Call as a noun (cricket):

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

Call as a noun:

A work shift which requires one to be available when requested (see on call).

Call as a noun (computing):

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

Call as a noun:

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

Call as a noun (poker):

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

Call as a noun:

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

Call as a noun (nautical):

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

Call as a noun:

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

Call as a noun:

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

Call as a noun (archaic):

Vocation; employment; calling.

Call as a noun (US, legal):

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.

Call as a noun (informal, slang, prostitution):

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

Call as a verb:

To use one's voice. To request, summon, or beckon. To cry or shout. To utter in a loud or distinct voice. To contact by telephone. To declare in advance. To rouse from sleep; to awaken. To declare (an effort or project) to be a failure.

Call as a verb (intransitive):

To visit. To pay a (social) visit . To stop at a station or port.

Call as a verb:

To name, identify or describe. To name or refer to. Of a person, to have as one's name; of a thing, to have as its name. To predict. To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact. To disclose the class or character of; to identify.

Call as a verb (sport):

Direct or indirect use of the voice. (of a batsman): To shout directions to the other batsman on whether or not they should take a run. (of a fielder): To shout to other fielders that he intends to take a catch (thus avoiding collisions). To equal the same amount that other players are currently betting. 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 state, or invoke a rule, in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.

Call as a verb (transitive, sometimes with ''for''):

To require, demand.

Call as a verb (transitive, finance):

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

Call as a verb (transitive, banking):

To demand repayment of a loan.

Call as a verb (transitive, computing):

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

Ring as a noun (physical):

A solid object in the shape of a circle. A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc. A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger or through the ear, nose, etc. A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration. A burner on a kitchen stove. In a jack plug, the connector between the tip and the sleeve. An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite. A flexible band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns.

Ring as a noun (physical):

A group of objects arranged in a circle. A circular group of people or objects. A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet. A large circular prehistoric stone construction such as .

Ring as a noun:

A piece of food in the shape of a ring.

Ring as a noun:

A place where some sports or exhibitions take place; notably a circular or comparable arena, such as a boxing ring or a circus ring; hence the field of a political contest.

Ring as a noun:

An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices.

Ring as a noun (chemistry):

A group of atoms linked by bonds to form a closed chain in a molecule.

Ring as a noun (geometry):

A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.

Ring as a noun (typography):

A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a kroužek.

Ring as a noun (historical):

An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.

Ring as a noun (computing theory):

A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used to protect data and functionality (also protection ring).

Ring as a noun (firearms):

Either of the pair of clamps used to hold a telescopic sight to a rifle.

Ring as a noun (cartomancy):

The twenty-fifth Lenormand card.

Ring as a verb (transitive):

To surround or enclose.

Ring as a verb (transitive, figuratively):

To make an incision around; to girdle.

Ring as a verb (transitive):

To attach a ring to, especially for identification.

Ring as a verb (transitive):

To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.

Ring as a verb (falconry):

To rise in the air spirally.

Ring as a noun:

The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.

Ring as a noun (figuratively):

A pleasant or correct sound.

Ring as a noun (figuratively):

A sound or appearance that is characteristic of something.

Ring as a noun (colloquial):

A telephone call.

Ring as a noun:

Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.

Ring as a noun:

A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.

Ring as a verb (intransitive):

Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound.

Ring as a verb (transitive):

To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound.

Ring as a verb (intransitive, figuratively):

To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.

Ring as a verb (intransitive, figuratively):

Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.

Ring as a verb (transitive, colloquial, British, New Zealand):

To telephone (someone).

Ring as a verb (intransitive):

to resound, reverberate, echo.

Ring as a verb (intransitive):

To produce music with bells.

Ring as a verb (dated):

To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.

Ring as a noun (algebra):

An algebraic structure which consists of a set with two binary operations: an additive operation and a multiplicative operation, such that the set is an abelian group under the additive operation, a monoid under the multiplicative operation, and such that the multiplicative operation is distributive with respect to the additive operation.

Ring as a noun (algebra):

An algebraic structure as above, but only required to be a semigroup under the multiplicative operation, that is, there need not be a multiplicative identity element.