recall

1 verb (T)

1 REMEMBER STH (not in progressive) to deliberately remember a particular fact, event, or situation from the past, especially in order to tell someone about it: recall that: I seem to recall that Barry was with us at the time. | recall doing sth: I don't recall ever meeting her. | recall what/how/where etc: Afterwards Olivia could not recall what they had talked about. | as I recall spoken (=used when you are telling someone what you remember about a past situation): As I recall, it was you who suggested this idea in the first place.

2 PERSON to officially tell someone to come back from a place where they have been sent

(+ from): The Ambassador was recalled from Washington.

3 PRODUCT if a company recalls one of its products, it asks you to return it because there may be something wrong with it: The B Series cars have been recalled to the manufacturers due to an engine fault.

4 ON A COMPUTER to bring information back onto the screen of a computer

5 BE SIMILAR TO if something recalls something else, it makes you think of it because it is very similar: a style of film-making that recalls Alfred Hitchcock

— recallable adjective 2 noun

1 (U) the ability to remember something that you have learned or experienced: powers of recall (=ability to remember) | total recall (=the ability to remember everything) | instant recall (=the ability to remember a fact immediately)

2 (singular, uncountable) a command telling someone to return from a place where they have been officially sent

(+ of): the recall of all Allied seamen to their own countries

3 beyond/past recall impossible to bring back or remember