Recall
[rɪ'kɔːl] or ['rikɔl]
Definition
(noun.) the act of removing an official by petition.
(noun.) the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort); 'he has total recall of the episode'.
(noun.) a bugle call that signals troops to return.
(noun.) a call to return; 'the recall of our ambassador'.
(noun.) a request by the manufacturer of a defective product to return the product (as for replacement or repair).
(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'.
(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'.
(verb.) cause to be returned; 'recall the defective auto tires'; 'The manufacturer tried to call back the spoilt yoghurt'.
(verb.) make unavailable; bar from sale or distribution; 'The company recalled the product when it was found to be faulty'.
Editor: Meredith--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To call back; to summon to return; as, to recall troops; to recall an ambassador.
(v. t.) To revoke; to annul by a subsequent act; to take back; to withdraw; as, to recall words, or a decree.
(v. t.) To call back to mind; to revive in memory; to recollect; to remember; as, to recall bygone days.
(n.) A calling back; a revocation.
(n.) A call on the trumpet, bugle, or drum, by which soldiers are recalled from duty, labor, etc.
Edited by Gail
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Revoke, retract, recant, repeal, rescind, annul, overrule, cancel, nullify, countermand, set aside.
n. Revocation, recantation, retraction.
Editor: Moll
Definition
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.
Typist: Steven
Examples
- I was obliged to recall him to a theme which was of necessity one of close and anxious interest to me. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Even yet I could not recall a single feature, but I knew him! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- She went on directing her conversation to the past, and seeming to recall its incidents, scenes, and personageswith singular vividness. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I must enjoy them now; don't recall either my mind or body to the school; I am out of it and disposed for full holiday. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Recall 'Le Songe d'Athalie,' she entreated, and say it. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- What can I recall of her during the past six months, before I close my journal for the night? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Do me the favour to recall that I told you so, long ago. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The closing of the door recalled him to himself. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- But it was not to the words that Eustacia listened; she could not even have recalled, a few minutes later, what the words were. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Tidings of an armed and regular opposition recalled them to a sort of order. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Then I recalled where I was, and how situated. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Some intense associations of a most distressing nature were vividly recalled, I think. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- You know that you are recalled to life? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The tender compassion of Jesus is recalled and relied on; the faded eye, gazing beyond time, sees a home, a friend, a refuge in eternity. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Fortunately his elder sister perceives the cause of the agitation in Mrs. Bagnet's breast and with an admonitory poke recalls him. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- This paragraph recalls the picture. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The first I chose was Celine Varens--another of those steps which make a man spurn himself when he recalls them. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Let fancy pourtray the joyous scene of the twentieth of June, such as even now my aching heart recalls it. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- His features have Napoleon's magnificent regularity--his expression recalls the grandly calm, immovable power of the Great Soldier's face. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Sitting opposite her father in the travelling-carriage, and recalling the old Marshalsea room, her present existence was a dream. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- In still earlier years than those I have been recalling, Holliday's Hill, in our town, was to me the noblest work of God. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Recalling how he had just now placed Messrs. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- You will not be offended by my recalling this, after twenty years? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Not Caliphronas, remarked Maurice, recalling his contest with the Count on the first day of the feaSt Caliphronas! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- He had a badly bruised face, said I, recalling what I hardly knew I knew. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- You'd be in a Blazing bad way, if recalling to life was to come into fashion, Jerry! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
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