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Recall   /rˈikˌɔl/  /rɪkˈɔl/   Listen
Recall

verb
1.
Recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection.  Synonyms: call back, call up, recollect, remember, retrieve, think.  "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"
2.
Go back to something earlier.  Synonyms: come back, hark back, return.
3.
Call to mind.  Synonym: echo.
4.
Summon to return.  Synonym: call back.  "The company called back many of the workers it had laid off during the recession"
5.
Cause one's (or someone else's) thoughts or attention to return from a reverie or digression.
6.
Make unavailable; bar from sale or distribution.
7.
Cause to be returned.  Synonyms: call back, call in, withdraw.  "The manufacturer tried to call back the spoilt yoghurt"
noun
1.
A request by the manufacturer of a defective product to return the product (as for replacement or repair).  Synonym: callback.
2.
A call to return.
3.
A bugle call that signals troops to return.
4.
The process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort).  Synonyms: recollection, reminiscence.
5.
The act of removing an official by petition.



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"Recall" Quotes from Famous Books



... to Stella, in words which I would now give everything I possess to recall. A detestable jealousy took possession of me. I meanly hinted that Penrose could claim no great merit (in the matter of Romayne's conversion) for yielding to the entreaties of a beautiful woman who had fascinated him, though he might be afraid to own it. She protested ...
— The Black Robe • Wilkie Collins
... of itself, is powerless to recall this vibration, either because the brain is tired or in some unfavourable condition or other; it is then aided by bringing its automatism into play, by endeavouring, for instance, to call back one constituent element of the fact desired, a place, sound, scent, ...
— Reincarnation - A Study in Human Evolution • Th. Pascal
... an outrage—a frame-up," declared Jane, glad to recall the vernacular. "There are three witnesses here who saw the trouble and we'll find others if you want them. The fact is Officer Jamison is always cross with us students" (she put it mildly), "and he was, perhaps, too willing to listen to our enemies. The proprietor ...
— Jane Allen: Junior • Edith Bancroft
... composition of hydrochloric acid it was stated that one volume of hydrogen combines with one volume of chlorine to form two volumes of hydrochloric acid. With bromine and iodine similar combining ratios hold good. These facts recall the simple volume relations already noted in the study of the composition of steam and ammonia. These relations may be represented graphically in ...
— An Elementary Study of Chemistry • William McPherson
... down, reluctantly, as if it were a signal that all hope was over. Presently the boat is observed to range about at random; the look-out-men aloft, when repeatedly hailed and asked, "if they see anything like him?" are all silent. Finally, the boat's recall-flag is hoisted, sail is again made on the ship, the people are piped down, and this tragical little episode in the voyage being concluded, everything goes ...
— The Lieutenant and Commander - Being Autobigraphical Sketches of His Own Career, from - Fragments of Voyages and Travels • Basil Hall


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