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Cancer is such a wake-up call to remind us how high the cosmic stakes really are and how short and brief and frail life really is.
Joni Eareckson Tada

Meaning of "wake-up call" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF WAKE-UP CALL

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WAKE-UP CALL

noun
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preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Wake-Up call is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES WAKE-UP CALL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

wake-up call

Wake-up call (service)

A wake-up call is a service provided by most lodging establishments to provide a service similar to alarm clocks via a telephone. The phrase has been used to describe a sign or warning that alerts one to negative or dangerous behavior or circumstances. In east Asia, a wake-up call is commonly known as a "morning call." Several online services have been built for wake up call phone reminders such as Wakeup.io at https://wakeup.io and iping at www.iping.com The Wakeup.io service was featured in Lifehacker, which shows that despite almost all modern phones having alarm clock functionality, a physical wake-up call is still a desired service to have.

Definition of wake-up call in the English dictionary

The definition of wake-up call in the dictionary is a telephone call that wakes a person from sleep. Other definition of wake-up call is an event that alerts people to a danger or difficulty.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WAKE-UP CALL

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wake up and smell the coffee
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wakeboarder
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Wakefield
wakeful
wakefully
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wakey-wakey

WORDS THAT END LIKE WAKE-UP CALL

alarm call
call
clarion call
close call
collect call
conference call
curtain call
emergency call
follow-up call
house call
line call
local call
long-distance call
on call
phone call
photo call
port of call
roll call
telephone call
too close to call
video call

Synonyms and antonyms of wake-up call in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «wake-up call» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WAKE-UP CALL

Find out the translation of wake-up call to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of wake-up call from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «wake-up call» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

敲响了警钟
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

llamada de atención
570 millions of speakers

English

wake-up call
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

जगा फोन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

دعوة للاستيقاظ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

звонок для пробуждения
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

chamada wake -up
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

জেগে ওঠা কল
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Réveil
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Panggilan bangun
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Weckruf
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

モーニングコール
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

모닝콜
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Telpon tangi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

báo thức
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

எழுவதற்கான அழைப்பு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वेक अप कॉल
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

uyanma çağrısı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sveglia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pobudką
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

дзвінок для пробудження
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

apel de trezire
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

wake- up κλήση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

wekroep
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

väckarklocka
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

oppvekker
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of wake-up call

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WAKE-UP CALL»

The term «wake-up call» is quite widely used and occupies the 31.300 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WAKE-UP CALL» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about wake-up call

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10 QUOTES WITH «WAKE-UP CALL»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word wake-up call.
1
Corbin Bernsen
My dad had a stroke. It's one of those life-changing events. It was right around the time I was turning 40. We were doing 'L.A. Law,' and I got this call that my dad was in Rome and had had a stroke. I want to stress that it wasn't a huge stroke, but it was enough to provide a serious wake-up call.
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Usain Bolt
It's always a wake-up call to get beaten.
3
Tim Finchem
I'm a fan of the power nap. About twice a week, I'll stretch out on a little couch in my office for 20 minutes. I don't need a wake-up call; I pop right up, feeling refreshed.
4
Laurie Garrett
'Contagion' should serve as a wake-up call not only about the germs, but perhaps more importantly about the frailty of governance, nationally and worldwide.
5
Carl Honore
Sometimes it takes a wake-up call, doesn't it, to alert us to the fact that we're hurrying through our lives instead of actually living them; that we're living the fast life instead of the good life. And I think, for many people, that wake-up call takes the form of an illness.
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Victoria Justice
If you've been driving for a little while and nothing's happened to you yet - and you've been texting and driving - you think, 'Oh nothing's going to happen.' But all it takes is an accident happening with one of your friends or God forbid, something happening to you, to really give you a wake-up call.
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Angela Kinsey
I got the wake-up call that no one is policing our oceans. I wondered, how can I do anything? What really can I do to make things better? There are some perks to being a celebrity. My job is to be funny once in a while, but it's my responsibility to make good use of it.
8
Victor Ponta
The image of Russian troops pouring into Ukraine and encircling military units in Crimea has been a wake-up call that will reverberate for a generation.
9
Ann Robinson
The results of this survey are shocking and should be a wake-up call to men and women that drinking and smoking too much not only gives you a bad headache in the morning but can affect your ability to start a family.
10
Joni Eareckson Tada
Cancer is such a wake-up call to remind us how high the cosmic stakes really are and how short and brief and frail life really is.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WAKE-UP CALL»

Discover the use of wake-up call in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to wake-up call and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Letters from Home: A Wake-up Call for Success and Wealth
The authors are proud to contribute 100% of royalties from the publication of this book to three personally meaningful organizations: Share Our Strength (www.strength.org), Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (www.mskcc.org), and FORCE ...
David R. Reiser, Andrea R. Reiser, 2010
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Have You Seen My Country Lately?: America's Wake-Up Call
" In keeping with his no-holds-barred on-air style, conservative radio talk show host Jerry Doyle has the guts to ask the tough questions about the state of our nation today.
Jerry Doyle, 2010
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Wake-Up Call: The Political Education of a 9/11 Widow
In that frozen instant, she felt in her heart that he had been killed. This is the deeply personal, often shocking and ultimately inspirational story of a woman left to pick up the pieces of a life shattered by terrorism.
Kristen Breitweiser, 2006
4
Who Will Feed China?: Wake-up Call for a Small Planet
Discusses the impact of China's future need to import grain on world food prices and outlines supply problems which will result as world production struggles to meet an unprecedented demand
Lester Russell Brown, 1995
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Student Cheating and Plagiarism in the Internet Era: A ...
Provides an overview of the issue of electronic plagiarism in an age of unprecedented access to information, and offers deterrents including academic integrity policies, character education, and high-tech defenses.
Ann Lathrop, Kathleen Foss, 2000
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A Wake Up Call: Our Strenghts, Weaknesses and Our Downfalls
This book will have the answers to your dating, relationship and marital problems. This book will take you down roads you have been down before but you will emerge with new found knowledge.
Michael Paul, 2011
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Wake Up Call: 365 Bible Readings to Start Your Day
Young teens can develop a daily Bible reading routine. The NLT text and topical arrangement helps readers gain understanding about key topics in the Bible.
Edythe Draper, 2003
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Innocent Code: A Security Wake-Up Call for Web Programmers
This concise and practical book shows where code vulnerabilities lie-without delving into the specifics of each system architecture, programming or scripting language, or application-and how best to fix them Based on real-world situations ...
Sverre H. Huseby, 2004
9
Workforce Wake-Up Call: Your Workforce is Changing, Are You
This book is a must-read for any executive serious about building a high-performing team and achieving sustainable advantage for both today and tomorrow." —Dennis Donovan, Executive Vice President of Human Resources, The Home Depot "The ...
Robert Gandossy, Nidhi Verma, Elissa Tucker, 2006
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Love Or Die: Christ's Wake-up Call to the Church
Part I of the book reminds us that "an individual or a church can teach sound doctrine, be faithful to the gospel, be morally upright and hard-working, and yet be lacking love and therefore, be displeasing to Christ.
Alexander Strauch, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WAKE-UP CALL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term wake-up call is used in the context of the following news items.
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Holder: Charleston a 'wake-up call' on domestic terror
The shooting at a church in Charleston, S.C., was a “wake-up call” for many Americans about the terrorism that is possible within the United States, former ... «The Hill, Jul 15»
2
Wake-up call
We are dangerously close to a huge disaster and yet we still appear oblivious to what is happening, living on an entirely different planet to the rest of Europe. «Kathimerini, Jul 15»
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'It was a wake-up call': Rylan Clark discusses his humiliating NAKED …
"But I think that was a big wakeup call for me. That was the day I decided to grow up!" True to his word, Rylan certainly did start to mature after that incident. «Mirror.co.uk, Jul 15»
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MERS a 'wake-up call' says WHO as S. Korea reports 20th death
Geneva (AFP) - The MERS outbreak in South Korea is a "wake-up call", the World Health Organization warned Wednesday, saying that a lack of knowledge and ... «Yahoo News, Jun 15»
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Another 'wake-up call' for Metro
A NEW report that is scathing in its criticism of Metro's safety procedures was called an “important wake-up call” by a top federal transit official. The sad truth ... «Washington Post, Jun 15»
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A Wake-Up Call for NGOs
On the margins of the Oslo Freedom Forum, Tunisian activist Amira Yahyaoui offers a sharp critique of the professional human rights community. «Foreign Policy, Jun 15»
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A global wake-up call for the US?
This past month may be remembered as the moment the United States lost its role as the underwriter of the global economic system. True, there have been any ... «Washington Post, Apr 15»
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A Wake-Up Call for US Liberals
This article is part of The Nation's 150th Anniversary Special Issue. Download a free PDF of the issue, with articles by James Baldwin, Barbara Ehrenreich, Toni ... «The Nation., Mar 15»
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Rise In Measles Cases Marks A 'Wake-Up Call' For U.S.
That's already more cases than the U.S. typically sees in a year, the CDC's Dr. Anne Schuchat told reporters on a conference call Thursday. "This is a wake-up ... «NPR, Jan 15»
10
State Fair Exhibit A Wake-Up Call For Distracted Drivers
Nina Moini visited an interactive exhibit that serves as a wakeup call for Minnesotans about the dangers of distracted driving. The Reality Rides exhibit will be on ... «CBS Local, Aug 14»

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