Definitions for recall
rɪˈkɔl; rɪˈkɔl, ˈri kɔl for 7-13re·call

Princeton's WordNet(4.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. recall, callbacknoun

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

2. recallnoun

   a call to return

   "the recall of our ambassador"

3. recallnoun

   a bugle call that signals troops to return

4. recall, recollection, reminiscencenoun

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

   "he has total recall of the episode"

5. recallverb

   the act of removing an official by petition

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

   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"

7. hark back, return, come back, recallverb

   go back to something earlier

   "This harks back to a previous remark of his"

8. echo, recallverb

   call to mind

   "His words echoed John F. Kennedy"

9. recall, call backverb

   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"

10. recallverb

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

    "She was recalled by a loud laugh"

11. recallverb

    make unavailable; bar from sale or distribution

    "The company recalled the product when it was found to be faulty"

12. recall, call in, call back, withdrawverb

    cause to be returned

    "recall the defective auto tires"; "The manufacturer tried to call back the spoilt yoghurt"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. recallnoun

   The action or fact of calling someone or something back.

2. recallnoun

   Memory; the ability to remember.

3. recallnoun

   In Information retrieval, the fraction of (all) relevant material that is returned by a search

4. recallverb

   To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order).

5. recallverb

   To call back, bring back or summon (someone) to a specific place, station etc.

6. recallverb

   To bring back (someone) to or from a particular mental or physical state, activity etc.

7. recallverb

   To call back (a situation, event etc.) to one's mind; to remember, recollect.

8. recallverb

   To call again, to call another time.

9. recallverb

   To request or order the return of (a faulty product).

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Recallnoun

   Revocation; act or power of calling back.

   Etymology: from the verb.

   Other decrees
   Against thee are gone forth, without recall. John Milton.

   ’Tis done, and since ’tis done, ’tis past recal;
   And since ’tis past recal, must be forgotten. Dryden.

2. To Recallverb

   To call back; to call again; to revoke.

   Etymology: re and call.

   They who recal the church unto that which was at the first, must set bounds unto their speeches. Richard Hooker, b. iv. s. 2.

   If Henry were recall’d to life again,
   These news would cause him once more yield the ghost. William Shakespeare, Henry VI. p. i.

   Neglected long, she let the secret rest,
   Till lov’d recall’d it to her lab’ring breast. Dryden.

   It is strange the soul should never once recal over any of its pure native ideas, before it borrowed any thing from the body; never any other ideas, but what derive their original from that union. John Locke.

   To the churches, wherein they were ordained, they might of right be recalled as to their proper church, under pain of excommunication. John Ayliffe, Parergon.

   It is necessary to recall to the reader’s mind, the desire Ulysses has to reach his own country. William Broome, Notes on Odyss.

   If princes, whose dominions lie contiguous, be forced to draw from those armies which act against France, we must hourly expect having those troops recalled, which they now leave with us in the midst of a siege. Jonathan Swift, Miscellanies.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Recallverb

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

2. Recallverb

   to revoke; to annul by a subsequent act; to take back; to withdraw; as, to recall words, or a decree

3. Recallverb

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

4. Recallnoun

   a calling back; a revocation

5. Recallnoun

   a call on the trumpet, bugle, or drum, by which soldiers are recalled from duty, labor, etc

Freebase(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Recall

   Recall in memory refers to the retrieval of events or information from the past. Along with encoding and storage, it is one of the three core processes of memory. There are three main types of recall: free recall, cued recall and serial recall. Psychologists test these forms of recall as a way to study the memory processes of humans and animals. Two main theories of the process of recall are the Two-Stage Theory and the theory of Encoding Specificity.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Recall

   rē-kawl′, v.t. to call back: to command to return: to revoke: to call back to mind.—n. act of recalling or revoking: a signal to soldiers to return.—adj. Recall′able, capable of being recalled.—n. Recal′ment, revocation.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. recall

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

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1. recall

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Matched Categories

1. • Bugle Call
   • Call
   • Cancel
   • Focus
   • Memory
   • Refer
   • Request
   • Resemble

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'recall' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3957

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'recall' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2325

3. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'recall' in Verbs Frequency: #359

Anagrams for recall »

1. caller

2. cellar

How to pronounce recall?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of recall in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of recall in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of recall in a Sentence

1. Sarah Jessica Parker:

   I found it very upsetting because that’s not the way I recall Chris Noth experience.

2. Jane Houlihan:

   The FDA announcement of the recall is great news, it's so important for babies that this cereal not make it to market. We fully support FDA's enforcement action to help reduce arsenic exposures for these little ones who are so vulnerable.

3. Gavin Newsom:

   Those are the folks behind the recall, by the way.

4. Anne Dunsmore:

   Closing the beaches and closing the parks really was the beginning, that I saw on the ground, of the beginning of the end for him, as far as people taking the recall stuff seriously.

5. President Biden nominee:

   I remind them to take a look back at history and recall that it was Ronald Reagan who announced that President Joe Biden was going to appoint a woman to the Supreme Court and President Joe Biden did : Sandra Day O'Connor, and it was Donald Trump who announced that President Biden nominee was going to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg with a woman nominee as well. So this is not the first time that a president has signaled what they're looking for in a nominee.

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