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Recall vs Recallable - What's the difference?

recall | recallable |

As a verb recall

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

As a noun recall

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

As an adjective recallable is

capable of being recalled (retrieved from one's memory).

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

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    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 ----

    recallable

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Capable of being recalled (retrieved from one's memory).
  • The number of recallable words from the list was much smaller after 24 hours.
  • Capable of being recalled (brought back from service etc.).