Call and Invoke

Call

Call verb - To demand or request the presence or service of.
Usage example: rushed to call a repairman when the furnace broke

Invoke is a synonym for call in cause topic. In some cases you can use "Invoke" instead a verb "Call".

Nearby Words: calling, called, caller, callback, callable

Invoke

Invoke verb - To be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind).

Call is a synonym for invoke in cause topic. Sometimes you can use "Call" instead a verb "Invoke", if it concerns topics such as summon.

Nearby Words: invocation, invoking

Common collocations

love call love invoke love
attack call attack invoke attack
name call name invoke name
god call god invoke god
Other words: time, times, names.

Both words in one sentence

  • The interviewer tries to invoke this by saying that only guilty people call their lawyers, to which Hotch replies "No, smart people do".
  • An imprisoned Silvia tries to invoke this by demanding M call him by his real name.
  • Hellhound The Dark Eldar have ugly half-Warp/half-real creatures called Warp Beasts or khymerae that invoke the look (and some translations actually call them "Warp hounds").
    Source: Hellhound
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