a. To remember; recollect: I don't recall her name.

b. To be reminiscent of; seem similar to: a movie that recalls the screwball comedies of the 1940s.

c. To summon back to awareness of or concern with the subject or situation at hand: The opening of the door recalled me from my reverie.

3. To cancel, take back, or revoke: recall a move in chess.

4. To bring back; restore: "an atmosphere of penetrating fragrance, the gentle potency of which had recalled her from her death-like faintness" (Nathaniel Hawthorne).

5. To subject (an elected official) to a recall.

6. To request return of (a product) to the manufacturer, as for necessary repairs or adjustments.

1. The act of recalling or summoning back, especially an official order to return: the recall of the ambassador.

2. A signal, such as a bugle call, used to summon troops back to their posts.

3. The ability to remember information or experiences: has total recall of the accident.

4. The act of revoking: the recall of an answer in a spelling bee.

a. The procedure by which an elected official may be removed from office by popular vote.

b. The right to employ this procedure.

6. A request by the manufacturer of a product that has been identified as defective to return it, as for necessary repairs or adjustments.

1. (may take a clause as object ) to bring back to mind; recollect; remember

2. to order to return; call back permanently or temporarily: to recall an ambassador.

3. to revoke or take back

4. to cause (one's thoughts, attention, etc) to return from a reverie or digression

5.poetic to restore or revive

6. the act of recalling or state of being recalled

7. revocation or cancellation

8. the ability to remember things; recollection

9. (Military) military (esp formerly) a signal to call back troops, etc, usually a bugle call: to sound the recall.

10. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) US the process by which elected officials may be deprived of office by popular vote

re•call

1. to bring back from memory; recollect; remember.

2. to call or order back: to recall an ambassador.

3. to bring (one's thoughts, attention, etc.) back to matters previously considered.

4. to revoke or withdraw: to recall a promise.

6. an act of recalling.

7. recollection; remembrance.

8. the act or possibility of revoking something.

9. the removal or the right of removal of a public official from office by a vote of the people.

10. a summons by a manufacturer for the return of a product, as from a consumer, because of a known defect or hazard in it.

• lethologica - If you cannot recall the precise word for something, you have a case of lethologica, which may lead you to an obsession with trying to recall it—loganamnosis.
• remember - From Latin rememorari, "recall to mind."
• reduce. reduct - Reduce first meant "bring back or recall in memory" or "take back or refer (a thing) to its origin," from Latin reducere, "lead back"; reduct means "simplify."
• tartle - From Scottish, to hesitate in recognizing a person or thing, as happens when you are introduced to someone whose name you cannot recall; so you say, "Pardon my tartle!"

Past participle: recalled
Gerund: recalling

1. to order (a person etc ) to return. He had been recalled to his former post. heroproep يَسْتَدْعي повиквам обратно chamar de novo povolat zpět zurückrufen kalde tilbage ανακαλώ hacer volver ametikohalt tagasi kutsuma فراخواندن kutsua takaisin rappeler לְהַחֲזִיר लौटने का आदेश देना ponovno vratiti, opozvati visszahív menarik kalla heim richiamare 呼び戻す 불러들이다 sugrąžinti, atšaukti atsaukt memanggil pulang terugroepen beordre/kalle tilbake przywołać, odwołać رابل، غوښتل (بيا) يادول،په يادول په يادراوړل (بيا)،لغوكول، بيرته اخيستل، منسوخول، له منځه وړل، باطلول chamar de novo a rechema отзывать povolať späť nazaj poklicati; odpoklicati opozvati kalla tillbaka เรียกกลับ geri çağırmak 召回 відкликати واپس بلانا gọi lại 召回

2. to remember. I don't recall when I last saw him. onthou يُذَكِّر спомням си recordar vzpomenout si sich errinnern mindes θυμάμαι recordar. acordarse meelde tuletama به یاد آوردن muistaa se rappeler לִזכּוֹר याद आना sjetiti se emlékszik mengingat muna ricordare 思い出す 상기하다 prisiminti atcerēties, atsaukt atmiņā ingat zich herinneren minnes. huske przypominać sobie په يادول په يادراوړل recordar a-şi aminti припоминать spomenúť si spomniti se setiti se erinra sig, komma ihåg, minnas ระลึก hatırlamak 記起 згадувати; воскрешати в пам'яті یاد کرنا nhớ lại 回想，记起

1. an order to return. the recall of soldiers to duty. heroproep إسْتِدْعاء отзоваване chamada povolání k návratu die Abberufung genindkaldelse ανάκληση llamada. aviso tagasipöördumiskäsk فراخوان؛ احضار takaisinkutsu rappel הַחזָרָה लौटने का आदेश znak trubom za zbor (povratak) visszahívás perintah penarikan heimkvaðning richiamo 呼び戻し 소환 atšaukimas atsaukums; atsaukšana panggilan rappel tilbakekalling odwołanie رابل chamada rechemare сигнал к возвращению povolanie naspäť ponoven poziv opoziv tillbaka-, hemkallande การเรียกตัวกลับ geri çağırma 召回令 заклик повернутися واپسی کا حکم sự triệu hồi 撤回命令

2. (ˈriːkoːl) the ability to remember and repeat what one has seen, heard etc. He has total recall. onthouvermoë إسْتِذْكار способност за припомняне memória paměť die Errinnerung huskeevne μνημονικό memoria mälu به خاطر آوری muistaa kaikki mémoire זכירה याददाश्त apsolutno (savršeno) pamćenje emlékezőtehetség kemampuan mengingat minni memoria 記憶力 기억 atmintis atmiņa mengingati geheugen hukommelse. minne zdolność odtworzenia z pamięci په ياد سپارنه memória memorie память pamäť spomin sećanje minne การระลึกได้ hatırlayabilme 回想 спогад, пам'ять یاد آوری khả năng nhớ lại 回忆

v. recordar; reclamar; hacer volver; acordarse de.

n recuperación f (form ), recuerdo, memoria a corto plazo, capacidad f para recordar; (of a defective product ) retirada (de un producto defectuoso); vt recordar; (a defective product ) retirar

References in classic literature ?

But memory turned traitor, and as if possessed by the perverse spirit of the girl, would only recall Jo's oddities, faults, and freaks, would only show her in the most unsentimental aspects--beating mats with her head tied up in a bandana, barricading herself with the sofa pillow, or throwing cold water over his passion a la Gummidge--and an irresistable laugh spoiled the pensive picture he was endeavoring to paint.

Twenty times the gourd or the venison was suspended before his lips, while his head was turned aside, as though he listened to some distant and distrusted sounds--a movement that never failed to recall his guests from regarding the novelties of their situation, to a recollection of the alarming reasons that had driven them to seek it.

Or, by some genius of memory, to recall the fact that it was on this morning young Spear was to be sentenced for theft.

It certainly had been very pleasant to enjoy the spontaneous and chivalrous homage of these men, with no further suggestion of recompense or responsibility than the permission to be worshipped; but beyond that she racked her brain in vain to recall any look or act that proclaimed the lover.

To incur the ridicule of the younger crowd, that knew him not,--the harsher scorn and indignation of a few old men, who might recall his once familiar features

There would have been something sad, unutterably dreary, in all this, had I not been conscious that it lay at my own option to recall whatever was valuable in the past.

This, at all events, was for the time: a time so full that, as I recall the way it went, it reminds me of all the art I now need to make it a little distinct.

Though I cannot tell why it was exactly that those stage managers, the Fates, put me down for this shabby part of a whaling voyage, when others were set down for magnificent parts in high tragedies, and short and easy parts in genteel comedies, and jolly parts in farces --though I cannot tell why this was exactly; yet, now that I recall all the circumstances, I think I can see a little into the springs and motives which being cunningly presented to me under various disguises, induced me to set about performing the part I did, besides cajoling me into the delusion that it was a choice resulting from my own unbiased freewill and discriminating judgment.

this terrific object seemed to recall the whole herd from their stationary fright.

They fade irrevocably out of my mind even now while I speak, and endeavor to recall them and recollect myself.

Recall the commandment, or he will dissolve the castle and it shall vanish away like the instable fabric of a dream

But the manager succeeded in persuading him to recall the encore, and said the company would feel sufficiently rewarded and complimented in the mere fact that the encore was desired by his Majesty, without fatiguing him with a repetition to gratify their own vanity.