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/ˈɹiːkɔːl/
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rē′kôl′
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/ˈɹiˌkɔl/
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/ɹɪˈkɔl/
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/ˈɹiˌkɑl/
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cot-caught-merger:
/ɹɪˈkɑl/
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cot-caught-merger:
[ɹiˈkhɑɫ]
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/ɹɪˈkɔːl/
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/ˈɹɪkɔl/
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CMU ARPABET:
R IY1 K AO2 L
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CMU ARPABET 2:
R IH0 K AO1 L
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The action or fact of calling someone or something back.
Request of the return of a faulty product.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
The action or fact of calling someone or something back.
The right or procedure by which a public official may be removed from office before the end of their term of office, by a vote of the people to be taken on the filing of a petition signed by a required number or percentage of qualified voters.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, countable, uncountable
Topics: government, politics
Examples
recall petition representative recall
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
The action or fact of calling someone or something back.
The right or procedure by which the decision of a court may be directly reversed or annulled by popular vote, as was advocated, in 1912, in the platform of the Progressive Party for certain cases involving the police power of the state.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, countable, uncountable
Topics: government, politics
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Memory; the ability to remember.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Antonyms: none provided
The fraction of (all) relevant material that is returned by a search.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: information retrieval; machine learning; information retrieval; machine learning
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: sensitivity
Antonyms: none provided
To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: withcall, abjure, backpedal, disavow, disown, eat one's words, recall, recant, retract, revoke, swallow, take back, unsay, unspeak, walk back, withdraw
Antonyms: none provided
To call back, bring back, or summon (someone) to a specific place, station, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
He was recalled to service after his retirement. She was recalled to London for the trial.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
To remove an elected official through a petition and direct vote.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, transitive
Topics: government, politics
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
To bring back (someone) to or from a particular mental or physical state, activity etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Antonyms: none provided
To call back (a situation, event, etc.) to one's mind; to remember; to recollect.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, transitive
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
To hearken back to, evoke; to be reminiscent of.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
To call again; to call another time.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
To request or order the return of (a faulty product).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
the act of removing an official by petition
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: abrogation, repeal, annulment
the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
he has total recall of the episode
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: recollection, reminiscence
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: memory, remembering
Narrower terms: mind, reconstruction, reconstructive memory, reproduction, reproductive memory, regurgitation
a bugle call that signals troops to return
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: bugle call
a call to return
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
the recall of our ambassador
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: call
a request by the manufacturer of a defective product to return the product (as for replacement or repair)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: callback
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: request, asking
recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
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
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: remember, retrieve, call back, call up, recollect, think
Antonyms: none provided
Narrower terms: know, recognize, recognise, review, brush up, refresh
cause one's (or someone else's) thoughts or attention to return from a reverie or digression
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
She was recalled by a loud laugh
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: concentrate, focus, center, centre, pore, rivet
summon to return
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
The ambassador was recalled to his country The company called back many of the workers it had laid off during the recession
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: call back
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: call, send for
go back to something earlier
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
This harks back to a previous remark of his
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: hark back, return, come back
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: denote, refer
Narrower terms: recur, go back
cause to be returned
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
recall the defective auto tires The manufacturer tried to call back the spoilt yoghurt
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: call in, call back, withdraw
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: take
Narrower terms: decommission
make unavailable; bar from sale or distribution
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
The company recalled the product when it was found to be faulty
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: issue
Broader terms: cancel, strike down
Narrower terms: retire
call to mind
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
His words echoed John F. Kennedy
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: echo
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: resemble
From re- + call, probably modelled on Latin revocāre, French rappeler, English withcall.
Across languages
Translations
135 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Arabic :
سَحْبٌ
(saḥbun)
— product recall
Dutch :
terughaalactie
— product recall
Dutch :
product recall
— product recall
Finnish :
takaisinveto
— product recall
German :
Rückruf
— product recall
German :
Rückrufaktion
— product recall
Indonesian :
penarikan
— product recall
Portuguese :
recall
— product recall
Slovak :
zvolanie
— product recall
Spanish :
retirada
— product recall
Spanish :
recordación
— memory
Spanish :
rememoración
— memory
Russian :
полнота
(polnota)
— machine learning recall
Arabic :
ٱسْتَدْعى
— to call (someone) back to a specific place, station
Azerbaijani :
geri çağırmaq
— to call (someone) back to a specific place, station
Bulgarian :
връщам
(vrǎštam)
— to call (someone) back to a specific place, station
Bulgarian :
отзовавам
(otzovavam)
— to call (someone) back to a specific place, station
Catalan :
evocar
— to call (someone) back to a specific place, station
Chinese Mandarin :
罷免 /罢免
(bàmiǎn)
— to call (someone) back to a specific place, station
Chinese Mandarin :
召回
(zhàohuí)
— to call (someone) back to a specific place, station
Esperanto :
revoki
— to call (someone) back to a specific place, station
Finnish :
kutsua takaisin
— to call (someone) back to a specific place, station
French :
rappeler
— to call (someone) back to a specific place, station
German :
zurückrufen
— to call (someone) back to a specific place, station
Hungarian :
visszahív
— to call (someone) back to a specific place, station
Hungarian :
visszarendel
— to call (someone) back to a specific place, station
Hungarian :
hazahív
— to call (someone) back to a specific place, station
Italian :
ritirare
— to call (someone) back to a specific place, station
Italian :
revocare
— to call (someone) back to a specific place, station
Italian :
richiamare
— to call (someone) back to a specific place, station
Japanese :
呼び返す
(yobikaesu)
— to call (someone) back to a specific place, station
Latin :
revocō
— to call (someone) back to a specific place, station
Portuguese :
reconvocar
— to call (someone) back to a specific place, station
Russian :
отзыва́ть
(otzyvátʹ)
— to call (someone) back to a specific place, station
Russian :
отозва́ть
(otozvátʹ)
— to call (someone) back to a specific place, station
Ukrainian :
відклика́ти
(vidklykáty)
— to call (someone) back to a specific place, station
Welsh :
adalw
— to call (someone) back to a specific place, station
Albanian :
kujtoj
— to remember, recollect
Arabic :
تَذَكَّرَ
(taḏakkara)
— to remember, recollect
Belarusian :
паміна́ць
(paminácʹ)
— to remember, recollect
Belarusian :
памяну́ць
(pamjanúcʹ)
— to remember, recollect
Bulgarian :
спомням си
(spomnjam si)
— to remember, recollect
Catalan :
recordar
— to remember, recollect
Chinese Mandarin :
回憶 /回忆
(huíyì)
— to remember, recollect
Chinese Mandarin :
追憶 /追忆
(zhuīyì)
— to remember, recollect
Chinese Mandarin :
想起
(xiǎngqǐ)
— to remember, recollect
Chinese Mandarin :
回想
(huíxiǎng)
— to remember, recollect
Chinese Mandarin :
憶起 /忆起
(yìqǐ)
— to remember, recollect
Ngazidja Comorian :
hweshelea
— to remember, recollect
Corsican :
ricurdà
— to remember, recollect
Dutch :
herinneren
— to remember, recollect
Egyptian :
s-xA-A-A2
(sḫꜣj)
— to remember, recollect
Esperanto :
rememori
— to remember, recollect
Finnish :
muistaa
— to remember, recollect
Finnish :
palauttaa mieleen
— to remember, recollect
French :
se souvenir
— to remember, recollect
French :
se rappeler
— to remember, recollect
French :
se remémorer
— to remember, recollect
Friulian :
ricuardâ
— to remember, recollect
Georgian :
მოგონება
(mogoneba)
— to remember, recollect
Georgian :
გახსენება
(gaxseneba)
— to remember, recollect
Georgian :
შეხსენება
(šexseneba)
— to remember, recollect
German :
sich erinnern
— to remember, recollect
German :
sich entsinnen
— to remember, recollect
German :
gedenken
— to remember, recollect
German :
abrufen
— to remember, recollect
Gothic :
𐌲𐌰𐌼𐌿𐌽𐌰𐌽
(gamunan)
— to remember, recollect
Greek :
αναπολώ
(anapoló)
— to remember, recollect
Ancient Greek :
μιμνήσκομαι
(mimnḗskomai)
— to remember, recollect
Ancient Greek :
μνημονεύω
(mnēmoneúō)
— to remember, recollect
Hungarian :
felidéz
— to remember, recollect
Hungarian :
idéz
— to remember, recollect
Hungarian :
felelevenít
— to remember, recollect
Istriot :
racurdà
— to remember, recollect
Italian :
rammentare
— to remember, recollect
Italian :
ricordare
— to remember, recollect
Italian :
riportare alla memoria
— to remember, recollect
Japanese :
思い出す
(omoidasu)
— to remember, recollect
Japanese :
思い起す
(omoiokosu)
— to remember, recollect
Japanese :
想起する
(sōki suru)
— to remember, recollect
Kabuverdianu :
lenbra
— to remember, recollect
Korean :
회상하다
(hoesanghada)
— to remember, recollect
Korean :
생각나다
(saenggangnada)
— to remember, recollect
Latin :
meminī
— to remember, recollect
Latin :
recordor
— to remember, recollect
Māori :
mahara
— to remember, recollect
Māori :
maumahara
— to remember, recollect
Māori :
whakamaumahara
— to remember, recollect
Portuguese :
lembrar
— to remember, recollect
Portuguese :
recordar
— to remember, recollect
Romanian :
aminti
— to remember, recollect
Russian :
вспомина́ть
(vspominátʹ)
— to remember, recollect
Russian :
вспо́мнить
(vspómnitʹ)
— to remember, recollect
Russian :
припоминать
(pripominatʹ)
— to remember, recollect
Sanskrit :
स्मरति
(smárati)
— to remember, recollect
Scottish Gaelic :
cuimhnich
— to remember, recollect
Scottish Gaelic :
meòraich
— to remember, recollect
Scottish Gaelic :
bi cuimhne aig
— to remember, recollect
Sicilian :
ricurdari
— to remember, recollect
Sicilian :
arricurdari
— to remember, recollect
Spanish :
remembrar
— to remember, recollect
Spanish :
tener / hacer memoria de
— to remember, recollect
Swedish :
minnas
— to remember, recollect
Swedish :
dra sig till minnes
— to remember, recollect
Swedish :
komma ihåg
— to remember, recollect
Thai :
นึกถึง
— to remember, recollect
Ottoman Turkish :
آڭمق
(anmak)
— to remember, recollect
Ukrainian :
зга́дувати
(zháduvaty)
— to remember, recollect
Venetan :
regordar
— to remember, recollect
Venetan :
regordàr
— to remember, recollect
Venetan :
recordar
— to remember, recollect
Venetan :
recordàr
— to remember, recollect
Welsh :
adalw
— to remember, recollect
Welsh :
cofio
— to remember, recollect
Arabic :
سَحَبَ
(saḥaba)
— to order the return of (faulty product)
Bulgarian :
отзовавам
(otzovavam)
— to order the return of (faulty product)
Chinese Mandarin :
召回
(zhàohuí)
— to order the return of (faulty product)
Finnish :
takaisinkutsua
— to order the return of (faulty product)
French :
rappeler
— to order the return of (faulty product)
German :
zurückrufen
— to order the return of (faulty product)
German :
rückrufen
— to order the return of (faulty product)
Hungarian :
visszavon
— to order the return of (faulty product)
Hungarian :
bevon
— to order the return of (faulty product)
Hungarian :
visszahív
— to order the return of (faulty product)
Indonesian :
menarik
— to order the return of (faulty product)
Italian :
richiamare
— to order the return of (faulty product)
Italian :
ritirare
— to order the return of (faulty product)
Norwegian Bokmål :
tilbakekalle
— to order the return of (faulty product)
Portuguese :
convocar
— to order the return of (faulty product)
Russian :
отзывать
(otzyvatʹ)
— to order the return of (faulty product)
Russian :
отозвать
(otozvatʹ)
— to order the return of (faulty product)
Spanish :
retirar
— to order the return of (faulty product)
Swedish :
återkalla
— to order the return of (faulty product)
Welsh :
adalw
— to order the return of (faulty product)
Welsh :
adennill
— to order the return of (faulty product)