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Recall

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Noun

1. callback, recall

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

2. recall

a call to return

Example Sentences:
'the recall of our ambassador'

3. recall

a bugle call that signals troops to return

4. recall, recollection, reminiscence

the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort)

Example Sentences:
'he has total recall of the episode'

5. recall

the act of removing an official by petition

Verb

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

recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection

Example Sentences:
'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'

7. come back, hark back, recall, return

go back to something earlier

Example Sentences:
'This harks back to a previous remark of his'

8. echo, recall

call to mind

Example Sentences:
'His words echoed John F. Kennedy'

9. call back, recall

summon to return

Example Sentences:
'The ambassador was recalled to his country'
'The company called back many of the workers it had laid off during the recession'

10. recall

cause one's (or someone else's) thoughts or attention to return from a reverie or digression

Example Sentences:
'She was recalled by a loud laugh'

11. recall

make unavailable; bar from sale or distribution

Example Sentences:
'The company recalled the product when it was found to be faulty'

12. call back, call in, recall, withdraw

cause to be returned

Example Sentences:
'recall the defective auto tires'
'The manufacturer tried to call back the spoilt yoghurt'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Recall

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verb (transitive)
1. (may take a clause as object)
to bring back to mind; recollect; remember
2. 
to order to return; call back permanently or temporarily
to recall an ambassador
3. 
to revoke or take back
4. 
to cause (one's thoughts, attention, etc) to return from a reverie or digression
5. poetic
to restore or revive
noun
6. 
the act of recalling or state of being recalled
7. 
revocation or cancellation
8. 
the ability to remember things; recollection
9. military
(esp formerly) a signal to call back troops, etc, usually a bugle call
to sound the recall
10. US
the process by which elected officials may be deprived of office by popular vote

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Recall

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verb transitive
1. 
to call back; ask or order to return; specif., to ask purchasers to return (an imperfect or dangerous product), often so that a manufacturing defect can be corrected
2. 
to bring back to mind; remember
3. 
to take back; cancel; annul; revoke; withdraw
4.  US
to remove from office by the process of recall
5. 
to bring (the mind, attention, etc.) back, as to the immediate situation
6.  OLD-FASHIONED, Poetic
to revive
noun
7. 
the act of recalling
8. 
the ability to remember; memory
9.  Military
a signal, as on a bugle or drum, calling soldiers back to camp or ranks
10.  US
the process of removing, or right to remove, an official from office by popular vote, usually after using petitions to call for such a vote

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Recall

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tr.v. re·called, re·call·ing, re·calls
1. To ask or order to return: recalled all workers who had been laid off.
2.
a. To remember; recollect: I don't recall her name.
b. To be reminiscent of; seem similar to: a movie that recalls the screwball comedies of the 1940s.
c. To summon back to awareness of or concern with the subject or situation at hand: The opening of the door recalled me from my reverie.
3. To cancel, take back, or revoke: recall a move in chess.
4. To bring back; restore: "an atmosphere of penetrating fragrance, the gentle potency of which had recalled her from her death-like faintness" (Nathaniel Hawthorne).
5. To subject (an elected official) to a recall.
6. To request return of (a product) to the manufacturer, as for necessary repairs or adjustments.
n. (also rēkôl′)
1. The act of recalling or summoning back, especially an official order to return: the recall of the ambassador.
2. A signal, such as a bugle call, used to summon troops back to their posts.
3. The ability to remember information or experiences: has total recall of the accident.
4. The act of revoking: the recall of an answer in a spelling bee.
5.
a. The procedure by which an elected official may be removed from office by popular vote.
b. The right to employ this procedure.
6. A request by the manufacturer of a product that has been identified as defective to return it, as for necessary repairs or adjustments.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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