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RECALL

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of removing an official by petition

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("recall" is a kind of...):

abrogation; annulment; repeal (the act of abrogating; an official or legal cancellation)

Domain region:

America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (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)

Derivation:

recall (summon to return)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort)

Example:

he has total recall of the episode

Synonyms:

recall; recollection; reminiscence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("recall" is a kind of...):

memory; remembering (the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "recall"):

mind (recall or remembrance)

reconstruction; reconstructive memory (recall that is hypothesized to work by storing abstract features which are then used to construct the memory during recall)

reproduction; reproductive memory (recall that is hypothesized to work by storing the original stimulus input and reproducing it during recall)

regurgitation (recall after rote memorization)

Derivation:

recall (recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A bugle call that signals troops to return

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("recall" is a kind of...):

bugle call (a signal broadcast by the sound of a bugle)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A call to return

Example:

the recall of our ambassador

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("recall" is a kind of...):

call (a request)

Sense 5

Meaning:

A request by the manufacturer of a defective product to return the product (as for replacement or repair)

Synonyms:

callback; recall

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("recall" is a kind of...):

asking; request (the verbal act of requesting)

Derivation:

recall (cause to be returned)

recall (make unavailable; bar from sale or distribution)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection

Example:

call up memories

Synonyms:

call back; call up; recall; recollect; remember; retrieve; think

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "recall"):

know (perceive as familiar)

recognise; recognize (perceive to be the same)

brush up; refresh; review (refresh one's memory)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Somebody ----s VERB-ing

Sentence example:

They won't recall the story

Derivation:

recall (the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cause one's (or someone else's) thoughts or attention to return from a reverie or digression

Example:

She was recalled by a loud laugh

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "recall" is one way to...):

center; centre; concentrate; focus; pore; rivet (direct one's attention on something)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sense 3

Meaning:

Summon to return

Example:

The company called back many of the workers it had laid off during the recession

Synonyms:

call back; recall

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "recall" is one way to...):

call; send for (order, request, or command to come)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

recall (the act of removing an official by petition)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Go back to something earlier

Example:

This harks back to a previous remark of his

Synonyms:

come back; hark back; recall; return

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "recall" is one way to...):

denote; refer (have as a meaning)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "recall"):

go back; recur (return in thought or speech to something)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Sense 5

Meaning:

Cause to be returned

Example:

The manufacturer tried to call back the spoilt yoghurt

Synonyms:

call back; call in; recall; withdraw

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "recall" is one way to...):

take (take into one's possession)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "recall"):

decommission (withdraw from active service)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

recall (a request by the manufacturer of a defective product to return the product (as for replacement or repair))

Sense 6

Meaning:

Make unavailable; bar from sale or distribution

Example:

The company recalled the product when it was found to be faulty

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "recall" is one way to...):

cancel; strike down (declare null and void; make ineffective)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "recall"):

retire (withdraw from circulation or from the market, as of bills, shares, and bonds)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Antonym:

issue (circulate or distribute or equip with)

Derivation:

recall (a request by the manufacturer of a defective product to return the product (as for replacement or repair))

Sense 7

Meaning:

Call to mind

Example:

His words echoed John F. Kennedy

Synonyms:

echo; recall

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "recall" is one way to...):

resemble (appear like; be similar or bear a likeness to)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Credits

 Context examples: 

Auditory Verbal Learning Test Version A - The number of words recalled from List A, second attempt.

(ADNI AVLT - List A Recall 2 Total, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Recall ability after the sham stimulation generally improved on the morning test by a few percent.

(Sound Waves Boost Older Adult' Memory, Deep Sleep, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Then I thought of the whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning light revealed it to the victim.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Yet the scene in the dining-room of the Abbey Grange was sufficiently strange to arrest his attention and to recall his waning interest.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Recalling her eyes from the distance, she looked at me again now, with her former air.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Recalling a memory, then, opens a window of opportunity for that memory to be changed — what researchers call a "reconsolidation window."

(How Our Memory Works, NIH, US)

Exposure to a particular face or place becomes linked to a small number of neurons in the hippocampus; these neurons then fire when the memory is recalled.

(Storing memories of recent events, NIH)

Think back 19 years when you had a full moon lunar eclipse on January 9, 2001, to see if you can recall anything that happened to you then.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The Superintendent of Schools, good old man, stopped Martin on the street and remembered him, recalling seances in his office when Martin was expelled from school for fighting.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Auditory Verbal Learning Test Version A - The number of words recalled from List A, fourth attempt.

(ADNI AVLT - List A Recall 4 Total, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)