recall

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Editorial note

[1] Well, you don't have to do a recall.

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Quick take

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

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of recall gathered in one view.

noun

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

noun

a call to return; "the recall of our ambassador"

noun

a bugle call that signals troops to return

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for recall.

noun

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

noun

a call to return; "the recall of our ambassador"

noun

a bugle call that signals troops to return

noun

the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort); "he has total recall of the episode"

noun

the act of removing an official by petition

verb

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"

See also: remember, retrieve, recollect, think

verb

go back to something earlier; "This harks back to a previous remark of his"

verb

call to mind; "His words echoed John F. Kennedy"

verb

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"

verb

cause one's (or someone else's) thoughts or attention to return from a reverie or digression; "She was recalled by a loud laugh"

verb

make unavailable; bar from sale or distribution; "The company recalled the product when it was found to be faulty"

verb

cause to be returned; "recall the defective auto tires"; "The manufacturer tried to call back the spoilt yoghurt"

Example sentences

[1] Well, you don't have to do a recall.

My friend had a check in her hand on 9/13 if I recall correctly.

I also seem to recall Richard Branson saying that he "needs his 8 hours.

If I recall correctly it took me about 80 hours to go from no knowledge to first patch.

He probably thought I was a dope, but I still recall that lunch as one of my fondest memories while starting out in the industry.

I can't find the article now, but I recall reading an interview with an FBI agent in Wired or Ars or some such where he described the anons as "Internet Superheroes".

There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly.

I recall wondering at the time why, if there was such a shortage of talented developers, newly minted lawyers were still making several times as much as good programmers.

The botmaster would issue commands that I can't really recall anymore, but I do remember seeing a lot of commands that I assumed told the bots to download extra malware from a remote host.

This was an impromptu patch applied by the bitcoin project and a number of markets to defeat some sort of bug, but I can't recall or can't seem to find the details at the moment and can't recall what it was fixing or if the 100 number is correct.