When you recall something, you remember it, like telling your friend, "As I recall, you said you'd buy my lunch the next time we got together."
To call back; to summon to return;
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
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"
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
go back to something earlier; "This harks back to a previous remark of his"
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"
Verb
call to mind; "His words echoed John F. Kennedy"
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.
Recall
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To call back; to summon to return;
A calling back; a revocation.
Usage Examples
From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.
Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev.
The only other time I can recall my dad getting upset at me was when I missed a hockey practice. My parents were away, so my buddy and I decided to skip it. I never told my dad about it, but he found out from the coach.
I very rarely came across rude or disrespectful people. I don't know how I slipped by all of them, but I honestly can't think of one experience off the top of my head that was like that. I'm sure they're there, but I'd have to think really hard to recall them.
At times of distress, we all like to recall the advice of fathers and mothers. The best advice my father gave me was to keep faith and deep confidence in the potential of the Greek people nurture the belief that they can do things.
So why am I facing a recall election? Simple: the big government union bosses from Washington want their money. They don't like the fact that I did something fundamentally pro-worker something that's truly about freedom.
The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home.
In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I recall what I was taught in fifth-grade American government class, we elect presidents to do more than crass political calculations.
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Other Usage ExamplesThere is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
My recollection is - and I'd have to confirm this - but I don't recall paying any money to go to law school.
There is both a skill factor and an effort factor in dream recall. People can develop dream recall skills, such as lying still in the morning and writing down whatever comes to mind.
I never really got nightmares from movies. In fact, I recall my father saying when I was three years old that I would be scared, but I never was.
I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.
I am sure that the sad days and happenings were rare, and that I lived the joyous and careless life of other children but just because the happy days were so habitual to me they made no impression upon my mind, and I can no longer recall them.
I remember an article, I can't recall who by, it was after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which said that now the Wall was down, there could be no more class war. Only someone with money could ever say such a thing.
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