Main entry: recall
Definition: the act of removing an official by petition
Main entry: recollection, reminiscence, recall
Definition: the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort)
Usage: he has total recall of the episode
Main entry: recall
Definition: a bugle call that signals troops to return
Main entry: recall
Definition: a call to return
Usage: the recall of our ambassador
Definition: a request by the manufacturer of a defective product to return the product (as for replacement or repair)
Main entry: think, call back, call up, recall, retrieve, recollect, remember
Definition: recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
Usage: 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
Main entry: recall
Definition: cause one's (or someone else's) thoughts or attention to return from a reverie or digression
Usage: She was recalled by a loud laugh
Definition: summon to return
Usage: The ambassador was recalled to his country; The company called back many of the workers it had laid off during the recession
Main entry: hark back, return, recall, come back
Definition: go back to something earlier
Usage: This harks back to a previous remark of his
Main entry: call back, call in, recall, withdraw
Definition: cause to be returned
Usage: recall the defective auto tires; The manufacturer tried to call back the spoilt yoghurt
Main entry: recall
Definition: make unavailable; bar from sale or distribution
Usage: The company recalled the product when it was found to be faulty
Definition: call to mind
Usage: His words echoed John F. Kennedy