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recall |
Noun | 1. | recall - a request by the manufacturer of a defective product to return the product (as for replacement or repair) |
2. | recall - a call to return; "the recall of our ambassador" call - a request; "many calls for Christmas stories"; "not many calls for buggywhips" | |
3. | recall - a bugle call that signals troops to return bugle call - a signal broadcast by the sound of a bugle | |
4. | recall - the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort); "he has total recall of the episode" remembering, memory - the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered; "he can do it from memory"; "he enjoyed remembering his father" mind - recall or remembrance; "it came to mind" reconstructive memory, reconstruction - recall that is hypothesized to work by storing abstract features which are then used to construct the memory during recall reproductive memory, reproduction - recall that is hypothesized to work by storing the original stimulus input and reproducing it during recall regurgitation - recall after rote memorization; "he complained that school was just memorization and regurgitation" | |
5. | recall - the act of removing an official by petition U.S.A., United States, United States of America, US, USA, America, the States, U.S. - North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776 | |
Verb | 1. | recall - 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" know - perceive as familiar; "I know this voice!" |
2. | recall - go back to something earlier; "This harks back to a previous remark of his" | |
3. | recall - call to mind; "His words echoed John F. Kennedy" resemble - appear like; be similar or bear a likeness to; "She resembles her mother very much"; "This paper resembles my own work" | |
4. | recall - 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" | |
5. | recall - cause one's (or someone else's) thoughts or attention to return from a reverie or digression; "She was recalled by a loud laugh" | |
6. | recall - make unavailable; bar from sale or distribution; "The company recalled the product when it was found to be faulty" strike down, cancel - declare null and void; make ineffective; "Cancel the election results"; "strike down a law" retire - withdraw from circulation or from the market, as of bills, shares, and bonds | |
7. | recall - cause to be returned; "recall the defective auto tires"; "The manufacturer tried to call back the spoilt yoghurt" take - take into one's possession; "We are taking an orphan from Romania"; "I'll take three salmon steaks" decommission - withdraw from active service; "The warship was decommissioned in 1998" |