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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
recall
I.verb
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■ 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 was supporting Arsenal on that day, and vividly recalled how excited he became during the match.
▪ Colton recalled how the proponents took their idea to the state historical commission in 1987 and received approval for the marker.
▪ I can't even recall how I ended up with Derek - if that was his real name.
▪ With a sigh of relief he recalled how lucky he was on the night he disposed of the clothes in the skip.
▪ He stayed immobile, trying desperately to identify where he was and to recall how he had got there.
▪ I can look back with pride on recalling how well I had adapted myself to this trade, and all aspects involved.
still
▪ She sang Schubert's song Erlkonig in a way I can still recall.
▪ A quarter of a century later he still recalled the incident.
▪ Many Conservatives still recalled the disarray into which the Macmillan administration had plunged after its striking election victory in 1959.
▪ Williams said, still recalling his awe at being in the presence of star dancers like Truitte.
▪ I still recall the day John Kennedy died.
▪ This made a strong impression on Carter, who still recalled the results in his letter to me two decades later.
▪ Becky could still recall that first meeting clearly.
▪ See, I still recall your habits.
vividly
▪ I vividly recall attending a rehearsal in Salzburg at Whitsuntide 1977.
▪ She vividly recalled the flinch Philippe registered when she asked him what a severance package for Manion might cost.
▪ I have attended more debates on these matters than any other hon. Member and I vividly recall many of them.
▪ We've done this once or twice before, as I vividly recall.
▪ One moment which I recall vividly illuminates the problematic position in which I had placed myself.
▪ I vividly recall meeting the young man in 1979 for the first time.
▪ Mr Cunningham was supporting Arsenal on that day, and vividly recalled how excited he became during the match.
▪ The danger, the boredom, the ever-present discipline along with the exhilaration of aviation training are all vividly recalled.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "I didn't like him very much," Kev recalled. "He was arrogant."
▪ a style of film-making that recalls Alfred Hitchcock
▪ As a child, she recalled, her parents had seemed very happy together.
▪ David recalled an incident that took place in the family home some 12 years previously.
▪ He didn't like to recall what a disaster his business venture had been.
▪ Howard sighed. He could not recall ever being this tired before.
▪ I recall that on at least one occasion I saw him taking money from the office.
▪ Over 10,000 of the faulty irons had to be recalled from store shelves.
▪ The company voluntarily recalled about 11,000 of the devices to check them for defects.
▪ The meeting went very well, as I recall.
▪ Thousands of car baby-seats have had to be recalled after a fault was discovered in the safety harness.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ About 30 ambassadors were recalled to Moscow to explain their conduct in the coup.
▪ All the same, it was difficult to recall the legend exactly.
▪ As he later recalled, it was a damp, cold day.
▪ For example, recall that in Euclidean geometry the sum of the angles of any triangle is always 1800.
▪ Opposition is seen as traumatic, a frightening situation because it recalls the violence of Mecca before the triumph of the One.
▪ She recalls few low points in the four years since going public and has never regretted that decision.
▪ The visitors recall medium pacer Martin Howie after completing a college course and Paul Johnson also returns.
II.noun
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■ ADJECTIVE
total
▪ Neville's total recall could not totally recall any.
▪ From the age of six onward, Vologsky had been able to apply almost total recall to figures of any sort.
▪ But I possessed that night an almost total recall of physical sensations.
▪ You could wake up tomorrow with total recall.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Dinali has a brilliant mind, with almost total recall of what she has read.
▪ Even in old age, his powers of recall were astonishing.
▪ Families were overjoyed to hear about the recall of Allied seamen to their own countries.
▪ In advanced cases of the disease, there is a very rapid loss of recall and a decay of memory.
▪ They put a notice in the press ordering the recall of all the baby food that might have been contaminated.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As Kennedy said throughout the recall campaign, water rates had to be increased to finance needed improvements in the system.
▪ Exhaustivity of indexing has some impact on recall and precision.
▪ In addition to simple rage over the hike in water bills, other issues fueled the recall movement.
▪ In the second section the recall results are reported and relationships between risk and recall are analysed.
▪ Our results pertain to a sample of 101 subjects, in many of whom the birth weight was obtained by maternal recall.
▪ That would be the fourth recall in five years.
▪ Thousands of dangerous Candy machines are still in use despite a recall by the manufacturers.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Recall

Recall \Re*call"\, n.

  1. A calling back; a revocation.

    'T is done, and since 't is done, 't is past recall.
    --Dryden.

  2. (Mil.) A call on the trumpet, bugle, or drum, by which soldiers are recalled from duty, labor, etc.
    --Wilhelm.

  3. (Political Science)

    1. The right or procedure by which a public official, commonly a legislative or executive official, may be removed from office, before the end of his term of office, by a vote of the people to be taken on the filing of a petition signed by a required number or percentage of qualified voters.

    2. Short for

      recall of judicial decisions, the right or procedure by which the decision of a court may be directly reversed or annulled by popular vote, as was advocated, in 1912, in the platform of the Progressive party for certain cases involving the police power of the state.

Recall

Recall \Re*call"\ (r[-e]*k[add]l"), v. t.

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

    If Henry were recalled to life again.
    --Shak.

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

    Passed sentence may not be recall'd.
    --Shak.

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

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
recall

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; recalling.

recall

1650s, "act of recalling to mind," from recall (v.). In U.S. politics, "removal of an elected official," 1902.

Wiktionary
recall

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, by a vote of the people to be taken on the filing of a petition signed by a required number or percentage of qualified voters. 4 # The right or procedure by which the decision of a court may be directly reversed or annulled by popular vote, as was advocated, in 1912, in the platform of the Progressive party for certain cases involving the police power of the state. 5 memory; the ability to remember. 6 In http://en.wikipedi

  1. org/wiki/Information%20retrieval, the fraction of (all) relevant material that is returned by a search v

  2. 1 (context transitive English) To withdraw, retract (one's words et

  3. ); to revoke (an order). (from 16th c.) 2 (context transitive English) To call back, bring back or summon (someone) to a specific place, station etc. (from 16th c.)

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WordNet
recall

  1. n. a request by the manufacturer of a defective product to return the product (as for replacement or repair) [syn: callback]

  2. a call to return; "the recall of our ambassador"

  3. a bugle call that signals troops to return

  4. the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort); "he has total recall of the episode" [syn: recollection, reminiscence]

  5. the act of removing an official by petition

  6. v. 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" [syn: remember, retrieve, call back, call up, recollect, think] [ant: forget]

  7. go back to something earlier; "This harks back to a previous remark of his" [syn: hark back, return, come back]

  8. call to mind; "His words echoed John F. Kennedy" [syn: echo]

  9. 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" [syn: call back]

  10. 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. make unavailable; bar from sale or distribution; "The company recalled the product when it was found to be faulty" [ant: issue]

  12. cause to be returned; "recall the defective auto tires"; "The manufacturer tried to call back the spoilt yoghurt" [syn: call in, call back, withdraw]

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Wikipedia
Recall (memory)

Recall in memory refers to the mental process of retrieval of information from the past. Along with encoding and storage, it's 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.

Recall (bugle call)

Recall is a bugle call used to signal to soldiers that duties or drills are to cease, or to indicate that a period of relaxation should end. Outside of a military context, it is used to signal when a game should end, such as a game of capture the flag among scouts.

ReCALL (journal)

ReCALL is an academic journal of the European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning, published by Cambridge University Press. The journal's main focus is the use of technologies for language learning and teaching. It was established in 1989 and previously published by the CTI Centre of the University of Hull. It publishes approximately 20 articles per year. The articles cover various aspects of CALL (computer-assisted language learning) and technology enhanced language learning.

Recall

Recall may refer to:

  • Recollection, recall from memory
  • Product recall
  • Recall election
  • Recall of Parliament
  • Recall, a classification concept
  • Letter to recall sent to return an ambassador from a country, either as a diplomatic protest or because the diplomat is being reassigned elsewhere and is being replaced by another envoy
  • Recall (information retrieval), a statistical measure (contrasted with precision), the fraction of (all) relevant material that is returned by the search
  • Recall, in dog training, the process of bringing a dog to the caller from a distance
  • Recall (bugle call), a bugle call used to signify that an activity should end
  • Hook flash, recall button on a British telephone
  • ReCALL, an academic journal about computer-assisted language learning
  • "Recall", a song by Susumu Hirasawa on the 1995 album Sim City
  • Recall, a 2016 animated short
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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.