noun
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The action or fact of calling someone or something back.
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Memory; the ability to remember.
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(information retrieval) the fraction of (all) relevant material that is returned by a search
verb
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To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order).
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To call back, bring back or summon (someone) to a specific place, station etc.
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He was recalled to service after his retirement.
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To bring back (someone) to or from a particular mental or physical state, activity etc.
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To call back (a situation, event etc.) to one's mind; to remember, recollect.
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To call again, to call another time.
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To request or order the return of (a faulty product).
Examples of recall in a Sentence
She definitely didn't recall this place.
I cannot recall what happened during the first months after my illness.
I do recall hearing about the grandfather paradox.
Neither of us could recall anything unusual.
I recall him talking about maple sugaring on a farm when he was a kid, Charlie said.
I recall with delight that home-going.
I alone know how to recall them.
As I understand your present life, I think you will always recall it with satisfaction, because the self-sacrifice that fills it now...
As I recall, I was telling you guys to keep your own stables clean.
Sofi, did you recall Pierre from his vacation?
She was utterly unable to recall either the name of the story or the book.
She joined them, trying to recall the reason human-Deidre came to these.
He was a loner and no one could recall him having contact with anyone else during his short stay.
She is less able to recall events of fifteen years ago than most of us are to recollect our childhood.
So vividly did he recall that hospital stench of dead flesh that he looked round to see where the smell came from.
She looked at him hard, unable to recall anything at all about the kid.
The survival instinct that had been fueling his resolve melted away and he did something he could not recall ever doing; he openly wept.
I recall my surprise on discovering that a mysterious hand had stripped the trees and bushes, leaving only here and there a wrinkled leaf.
I recall with unmixed delight those days when a thousand childish fancies became beautiful realities.
I tried to recall the terms Quinn had quoted; dissociative fugue, fugue state, entirely different personality.
She struggled to recall what her real mother looked like or the day she became Death or even the day she met Gabriel.
She squeezed her eyes closed, forcing herself to recall the name and face of the men of her guard.
We would need to recall the armies from the south to bolster our numbers.
Most of the army has been in the south and are beyond our ability to recall in time.
Sirian moved all our armies too far south to recall them in time to save the city.
It is at the disposal of the minister of war, who can decree the recall of all men discharged to the reserve the previous year and all those whose time of service has for any reason been shortened.
He corresponded frequently with Mary, but there being no hopes whatever of his restoration, and a new suitor being found in the duke of Norfolk, Mary demanded a divorce, on pleas which recall those of Henry VIII.
Only the Temple records recall the spoliation of the sanctuary of Jerusalem, and traditions of Jeroboam I.
The cabinet of Athens, however, declined to recall the expeditionary force, which remained in the interior till the 9th of May, when, after the Greek reverses in Thessaly and Epirus, an order was given for its return.
This large number is partly accounted for by the diligent search in all countries that has been made for these plants for purposes of cultivation - they being held at present in the greatest esteem by plantlovers, and prices being paid for new or rare varieties which recall the days of the tulipomania.
I recall many incidents of the summer of 1887 that followed my soul's sudden awakening.
A song would play and he'd recall hearing it when they were together.
She leaned forward restlessly, seeking to recall what little he had taught her of strategy and why it looked very much like her kingdom was already doomed.
The letters to her daughter Solange, which have recently been published, irresistibly recall the letters of Mme de Sevigne to Mme de Grignan.
Not only could he no longer think the thoughts that had first come to him as he lay gazing at the sky on the field of Austerlitz and had later enlarged upon with Pierre, and which had filled his solitude at Bogucharovo and then in Switzerland and Rome, but he even dreaded to recall them and the bright and boundless horizons they had revealed.
But Pierre's face quivering with emotion, his questions and his eager restless expression, gradually compelled her to go into details which she feared to recall for her own sake.
The walk was familiar, though he didn't recall ever taking it before.
Frantically, she tried to recall anything anyone might've told her about suppressing information from someone reading her mind.
Though she couldn't recall the thousand-year process it took to reach this very place, she knew the end results.
She forced herself to recall each of their faces, each of their names, each of their stricken families.
I recall those I met before the Schism.
The Jews of Hungary shared with their brethren in Austria the same alternations of expulsion and recall.
The present king might be unscrupulous and avaricious, but he was cautious, intelligent and economical; no one would have wished to recall the rgime of that crowned saint Henry VI.
The fall of Choiseul brought about his recall, and somewhat later he was imprisoned in the Bastille, where he spent six months, occupying himself with literary pursuits.
The material on staging is impressively technical and represented in wonderfully bilious colors which recall the great days of 1980s computing.
I cannot recall a greater outpouring of hysterical emotionalism since the Children's Crusade - and I was much younger then.
If I recall it had wonderful little epigraphs setting off each chapter.
However, recall was spread across the different media and promotional items used with none emerging as a clear front-runner.
Recall that there are two glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate per glucose metabolized.
What Daniel could recall was too nebulous to call a true memory.