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Recall vs Consume - What's the difference?

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Recall is a related term of consume.


As verbs the difference between recall and consume

is that recall is to withdraw, retract (one's words etc); to revoke (an order) while consume is .

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 ----

    consume

    English

    Verb

    (consum)
  • To use.
  • The power plant consumes 30 tons of coal per hour.
  • To eat.
  • Baby birds consume their own weight in food each day.
  • To completely occupy the thoughts or attention of.
  • Desire consumed him.
  • To destroy completely.
  • The building was consumed by fire.
  • * Shakespeare
  • If he were putting to my house the brand / That shall consume it.
  • * Bible, Matthew vi. 20
  • Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth consume .
  • (obsolete) To waste away slowly.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Therefore, let Benedick, like cover'd fire, / Consume away in sighs.
  • * 1899 , Kate Chopin, The Awakening :
  • He assured her the child was consuming at that moment in the next room.

    Synonyms

    * (use) burn (of energy ), use, use up * (eat) devour, eat, swallow * (occupy) occupy, overcome, take over * (destroy) annihilate, destroy, devastate, eliminate, obliterate, raze (of a building ), wipe out

    Derived terms

    * consumer