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What is the difference between recall and recollect?

recall | recollect |

Recollect is a antonym of recall.



As verbs the difference between recall and recollect

is that recall is to withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order) while recollect is to recall; to collect one's thoughts again, especially about past events.

As a noun recall

is the action or fact of calling someone or something back.

recall

English

(wikipedia recall)

Verb

(en verb)
  • To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order).
  • To call back, bring back or summon (someone) to a specific place, station etc.
    • He was recalled to service after his retirement.
    She was recalled to London for the trial.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 29 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Fernando Torres was recalled in place of the suspended Didier Drogba and he was only denied a goal in the opening seconds by Laurent Koscielny's intervention - a moment that set the tone for game filled with attacking quality and littered with errors.}}
  • To bring back (someone) to or from a particular mental or physical state, activity etc.
  • To call back (a situation, event etc.) to one's mind; to remember, recollect.
  • * 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 10:
    • In fact, I hardly recall any occasion as a child when I was alone.
  • (intransitive) To call again, to call another time.
  • To request or order the return of (a faulty product).

    • Synonyms

    * (l)

    Noun

  • The action or fact of calling someone or something back.
  • Memory; the ability to remember.
  • In , the fraction of (all) relevant material that is returned by a search
  • a product recall (request of the return of a faulty product).

    • Anagrams

    * * English heteronyms ----

    recollect

    English

    Etymology 1

    From

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To recall; to collect one's thoughts again, especially about past events.
    • I remember the concert clearly, but I can't recollect why I was there.

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To collect (things) together again.
  • To compose oneself.
  • * Dryden
    • The Tyrian queen Admired his fortunes, more admired the man; then recollected stood.
  • * 1847 , Newton Mallory Curtis, The Patrol of the Mountain (page 52)
    • The Major suddenly recollected himself, and withdrew his hand, and at the same time, threw himself into a chair.
    English heteronyms