Purchase vs Recall - What's the difference?

Purchase is a related term of recall.

As nouns the difference between purchase and recall

is that purchase is (obsolete) the act or process of seeking and obtaining something (eg property, etc) while recall is the action or fact of calling someone or something back.

As verbs the difference between purchase and recall

is that purchase is to pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire while recall is to withdraw, retract (one's words etc); to revoke (an order).

purchase

English

Noun

(obsolete) The act or process of seeking and obtaining something (e.g. property, etc.)

* Beaumont and Fletcher

I'll get meat to have thee, / Or lose my life in the purchase .

An individual item one has purchased.

The acquisition of title to, or property in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent.

They offer a free hamburger with the purchase of a drink.

That which is obtained, got or acquired, in any manner, honestly or dishonestly; property; possession; acquisition.

That which is obtained for a price in money or its equivalent.

He was pleased with his latest purchase .

(uncountable) Any mechanical hold or advantage, applied to the raising or removing of heavy bodies, as by a lever, a tackle or capstan.

It is hard to get purchase on a nail without a pry bar or hammer.

The apparatus, tackle or device by which such mechanical advantage is gained and in nautical terminology the ratio of such a device, like a pulley, or block and tackle.

(rock climbing, uncountable) The amount of hold one has from an individual foothold or ledge.

(legal, dated) Acquisition of lands or tenements by means other than descent or inheritance, namely, by one's own act or agreement.

(Blackstone)

Derived terms

* purchase order * repurchase

Verb

(purchas)

To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire.

* Spenser

that loves the thing he cannot purchase

* Shakespeare

Your accent is something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling.

* Shakespeare

His faults hereditary / Rather than purchased .

To buy, obtain by payment of a price in money or its equivalent.

to purchase''' land'', ''to '''purchase a house

To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.

to purchase favor with flattery

* Shakespeare

One poor retiring minute / Would purchase thee a thousand thousand friends.

To expiate by a fine or forfeit.

* Shakespeare

Not tears nor prayers shall purchase out abuses.

To apply to (anything) a device for obtaining a mechanical advantage; to get a purchase' upon, or apply a ' purchase to.

to purchase a cannon

To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert oneself.

* Ld. Berners

Duke John of Brabant purchased greatly that the Earl of Flanders should have his daughter in marriage.

To constitute the buying power for a purchase, have a trading value.

''Many aristocratic refugees' portable treasures purchased their safe passage and comfortable exile during the revolution

Synonyms

* (buy) procure

Derived terms

* purchable * purchasing agent * purchasing power

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

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