recall

verb

/ɹɪˈkɔːl/UK/ɹɪˈkɔl/US/ɹɪˈkɑl//ˈɹiːkɔːl/UK/ˈɹiˌkɔl/US/ˈɹiˌkɑl/

Etymology

From re- + call, probably modelled on Latin revocāre, French rappeler, English withcall.

derived from callis — “path”
derived from caulae — “sheepfold”
derived from calwe — “bald”
formed as recall — “re- + call”

Definitions

To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.)
To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order).
2
To call back, bring back, or summon (someone) to a specific place, station, etc.
- He was recalled to service after his retirement.
- She was recalled to London for the trial.
3
To remove an elected official through a petition and direct vote.
- That stop-start-stop has created a groundswell of anger toward Mr. Newsom, a Democrat in the third year of his first term, that is increasingly fueling a movement to recall him from office in one of the bluest of blue states.
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1. To bring back (someone) to or from a particular mental or physical state, activity etc.
2. 5
  To call back (a situation, event, etc.) to one's mind
  To call back (a situation, event, etc.) to one's mind; to remember; to recollect.
  - So many people have come and gone Their faces fade as the years go by Yet I still recall as I wander on As clear as the sun in the summer sky
  - In fact, I hardly recall any occasion as a child when I was alone.
3. 6
  To hearken back to, evoke
  To hearken back to, evoke; to be reminiscent of.
  - "The twinkling of the dancers' feet" comes to us in the Odyssey as a memory from that palace of Alkinoos, whose wonders recall to us so much that we have found in Crete.
4. To call again
  To call again; to call another time.
5. 8
  To request or order the return of (a faulty product).
  - On Feb. 26, the FDA posted a voluntary recall from Brassica Pharma, which is recalling several eye ointments with expiration dates ranging from February 2024 to September 2025.
6. 9
  The action or fact of calling someone or something back.
  - recall campaign
  - The recall said that no injuries related to the potentially unsterile facility have been reported.
7. 10
  Memory
  Memory; the ability to remember.
  - One little-known incident in No. 49's life is worth recall.
8. 11
  The fraction of (all) relevant material that is returned by a search.
  - precision and recall

The neighborhood

Derived

AFAIR, IIRC, misrecall, nonrecalled, recallability, recallable, recallee, recaller, recallism, recallist, recallment, unrecalled, YDNRC, active recall, day-after recall test, letter of recall, pedestrian recall, sensory recall, total recall

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at recall. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at recall. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at recall

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA