Definition of recall

"recall" in the noun sense

1. recall, callback

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

2. recall

a call to return

"the recall of our ambassador"

3. recall

a bugle call that signals troops to return

4. recall, recollection, reminiscence

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

"he has total recall of the episode"

5. recall

the act of removing an official by petition

"recall" in the verb sense

1. remember, retrieve, recall, call back, call up, recollect, think

recall knowledge from memory have a recollection

"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"

2. hark back, return, come back, recall

go back to something earlier

"This harks back to a previous remark of his"

3. echo, recall

call to mind

"His words echoed John F. Kennedy"

4. recall, call back

summon to return

"The ambassador was recalled to his country"

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

5. recall

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

"She was recalled by a loud laugh"

6. recall

make unavailable bar from sale or distribution

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

7. recall, call in, call back, withdraw

cause to be returned

"recall the defective auto tires"

"The manufacturer tried to call back the spoilt yoghurt"

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Quotations for recall

Let each recall his own woes. [ Ovid ]

It will be a joy to us to recall this, some day. [ Virgil ]

Our hands we open of our own free will, and the good flies, which we can never recall. [ Goethe ]

It is as easy to draw back a stone, thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken. [ Menander ]

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and which, having so taught us, enable us to recall them with satisfaction when old. [ Leigh Hunt ]

It is books that teaches us to refine our pleasures when young, and which, having so taught us, enables us to recall them with satisfaction when old. [ L. Hunt ]

The reading of romances will always be the favorite amusement of women: old, they peruse them to recall what they have experienced; young to anticipate what they wish to experience. [ A. Ricard ]

Love is frightened at the intervals of insensibility and callousness that encroach by little and little Oxt the domain of grief, and it makes efforts to recall the keenness of the first anguish. [ George Eliot ]

Those who wish to forget painful thoughts do well to absent themselves for a while from the ties and objects that recall them: but we can be said only to fulfill our destiny in the place that gave us birth. [ Hazlitt ]

How many who, after having achieved fame and fortune, recall with regret the time when - ascending the hills of life in the sun of their twentieth year - they had nothing but courage, which is the virtue of the young, and hope, which is the treasure of the poor! [ H. Murger ]

A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age; and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed his cheek or silvered his brow, who can yet recall, with a softened heart, the fond devotion, or the gentle chidings, of the best friend that God ever gives us. [ Bovee ]

I can still recall old Mister Barnslow getting out every morning and nailing a fresh load of tadpoles to the old board of his. Then he'd spin it round and round, like a wheel of fortune, and no matter where it stopped he'd yell out, Tadpoles! Tadpoles is a winner! We all thought he was crazy. But then we had some growing up to do. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

recall in Scrabble®

The word recall is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters recall:

RECALL
(33)
CELLAR
(33)
CALLER
(33)
 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word recall

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In recall

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recall in Words With Friends™

The word recall is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 11

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters recall:

CALLER
(69)
CELLAR
(69)
 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word recall

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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In recall

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(69)
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(69)
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(63)
RECALL
(57)
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(57)
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(57)
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Words within the letters of recall

2 letter words in recall (4 words)

3 letter words in recall (10 words)

4 letter words in recall (9 words)

5 letter words in recall (2 words)

6 letter words in recall (Anagrams) (3 words)

Words containing the sequence recall

Words that start with recall (6 words)

Words with recall in them (1 word)

Words that end with recall (1 word)

Word Growth involving recall

Shorter words in recall

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Longer words containing recall

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