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recall
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a request by the manufacturer of a defective product to return the product (as for replacement or repair) [syn: callback ] a call to return; "the recall of our ambassador" a bugle call that signals troops to return the process of remembering (especially ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, "to bring back by calling upon," from re- "back, again" + call (v.); in some cases a loan-translation of Middle French rappeler (see repeal (v.)) or Latin revocare (see revoke ). Sense of "bring back to memory" is from 1610s. Related: Recalled ; ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The action or fact of calling someone or something back. 2 # A product recall (gloss: request of the return of a faulty product). 3 # The right or procedure by which a public official may be removed from office before the end of his/her term of office, ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB how ▪ There is a sense of anticipatory disillusion among those who recall how the high hopes of 1986 were dashed. ▪ Schiff said he could not recall how the panel settled on the $ 300, 000 figure. ▪ Mr Cunningham ...
Usage examples of recall.
Recall that Einstein accomplished this by realizing that an accelerated observer is also perfectly justified in declaring himself or herself to be at rest, and in claiming that the force he or she feels is due to a gravitational field.
Recall that an object is accelerating if either the speed or the direction of its motion changes.
Marshall, the initiator of the command crisis, refused to acquiesce in the recall in which his own policy as much as loyalty to Stilwell was involved.
Adrumetum in ashes, he calmly admonished the emperor that the peace of Africa might be secured by the recall of Solomon and his unworthy nephews.
Id like to reiterate my earlier claim about radio being the most visual medium available to advertisers and to 212 Nuts and Bolts recall the discussion of visual storyboards--a staple in the creation of television conimerciaLs--as a means of developing a radio campaign.
If the Aerian reserves had been recalled, they had chosen other heights to grace with their weary presence.
Little monkeys, she muttered affectionately, recalling the scene which had been enacted in the driveway a short while before.
He recalled in his affidavit some of these reports of conditions in eight camps inhabited by Russian and Polish workers : overcrowding that bred disease, lack of enough food to keep a man alive, lack of water, lack of toilets.
One Adolf Hitler was an early Party agitator, but as I recall it he intrigued against the Leader during the War of Triumph and was executed.
But Stone was downstairs in his room, and Julia, Alan recalled with a pang, would be with him.
As the dizzying spectacle flowed by, Alec recalled with horror his original plan to bring Seregil through Rhiminee alone.
An Aragonese official, Santangel, found the money, the L1500 required for the expedition, and the traveller was overtaken by an alguazil a couple of leagues away, and recalled to Granada.
He recalled that Alise had cast a Void spell in order to rescue them from the palace guard.
DEA agent, David Regela - one of the few agents ever actually to have met Amado - recalls a meeting in which Acosta was angry at him for having tortured six of his best men to death.
I cannot recollect now, and could not render into English were I to recall them, should, upon complaint of the person aggrieved, and upon proof of the offence by the evidence of worthy and truth-speaking witnesses, be amerced in such penalty, not exceeding a certain sum, as in the estimation of the presiding magistrate should be held to be a proper compensation for the injury to his reputation suffered by the plaintiff.