mindmap root((敬仰恭喜赦免允许拜访)) visit applies to any such coming, be it long or short, and whatever its nature or cause or purpose: spent the summer on a ~ to her English cousins. visitation applies chiefly to a formal or official visit made by one in authority often for a special purpose such as inspection or couselling: parochial ~s of a bishop. call applies to a brief, usually formal visit for social or professional purposes: the salesmen were expected to make at elast ten ~s each day.