RECALL

recall

(noun) the act of removing an official by petition

recall, recollection, reminiscence

(noun) the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort); “he has total recall of the episode”

recall

(noun) a bugle call that signals troops to return

recall

(noun) a call to return; “the recall of our ambassador”

recall, callback

(noun) a request by the manufacturer of a defective product to return the product (as for replacement or repair)

remember, retrieve, recall, call back, call up, recollect, think

(verb) recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection; “I can’t remember saying any such thing”; “I can’t think what her last name was”; “can you remember her phone number?”; “Do you remember that he once loved you?”; “call up memories”

recall

(verb) cause one’s (or someone else’s) thoughts or attention to return from a reverie or digression; “She was recalled by a loud laugh”

recall, call back

(verb) summon to return; “The ambassador was recalled to his country”; “The company called back many of the workers it had laid off during the recession”

recall, call in, call back, withdraw

(verb) cause to be returned; “recall the defective auto tires”; “The manufacturer tried to call back the spoilt yoghurt”

recall

(verb) make unavailable; bar from sale or distribution; “The company recalled the product when it was found to be faulty”

echo, recall

(verb) call to mind; “His words echoed John F. Kennedy”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Verb

recall (third-person singular simple present recalls, present participle recalling, simple past and past participle recalled)

(transitive) To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order). [from 16th c.]

(transitive) To call back, bring back or summon (someone) to a specific place, station etc. [from 16th c.]

(transitive) To bring back (someone) to or from a particular mental or physical state, activity etc. [from 16th c.]

(transitive) To call back (a situation, event etc.) to one's mind; to remember, recollect. [from 16th c.]

(transitive, intransitive) To call again, to call another time. [from 17th c.]

(transitive) To request or order the return of (a faulty product). [from 20th c.]

Synonyms

• (retract one's words): withcall; See also recant

Noun

recall (countable and uncountable, plural recalls)

The action or fact of calling someone or something back.

Request of the return of a faulty product

The right or procedure by which a public official may be removed from office before the end of his/her term of office, by a vote of the people to be taken on the filing of a petition signed by a required number or percentage of qualified voters.

The right or procedure by which the decision of a court may be directly reversed or annulled by popular vote, as was advocated, in 1912, in the platform of the Progressive party for certain cases involving the police power of the state.

Memory; the ability to remember.

(information retrieval) the fraction of (all) relevant material that is returned by a search

Anagrams

• caller, cellar

Source: Wiktionary

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Re*call", v. t.

1. To call back; to summon to return; as, to recall troops; to recall an ambassador.

2. To revoke; to annul by a subsequent act; to take back; to withdraw; as, to recall words, or a decree. Passed sentence may not be recall'd. Shak.

3. To call back to mind; to revive in memory; to recollect; to remember; as, to recall bygone days.

Re*call", n.

1. A calling back; a revocation. 'T his done, and since 't is done, 't is past recall. Dryden.

2. (Mil.)

Definition: A call on the trumpet, bugle, or drum, by which soldiers are recalled from duty, labor, etc. Wilhelm.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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