Analogy

Cloture: the termination of debate in a legislative body especially by calling for a vote

Roll call is one way of voting. Cloture is a special form of termination...

hmmm...perhaps someone else can spot the relationship right off. I can't.

Thank you again.

But I don't get it when you said "roll call is one way of voting". How could roll call be a voting? As far as I know, roll call only means the action of reading aloud of a list of names of people, or a form listing people's names.

With Julielai's definitions, I would conclude that...

'Voting' is to 'roll call' what 'termination' is to 'cloture'.

In this case, the reference is a 'roll-call vote'--a special form of voting where the name of each person in the voting pool is called out loud for a vocal response from that individual of 'aye' or 'nay'.

Thus, roll call is a special type of voting, and c

a 'roll-call vote'--a special form of voting where the name of each person in the voting pool is called out loud for a vocal response from that individual of 'aye' or 'nay'.

Thanks for this explanation.

I got it.

I missed the legislative connection.

Both roll call and cloture are oral parliamentary procedures, while voting and termination are generic terms.

So it brings them even more closer. Thank you.

But I am still waiting you to lend me the hand on that "sentence complet