What is the difference between recall and recollect?
recall | recollect |
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.
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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:
(intransitive) To call again, to call another time.
To request or order the return of (a faulty product).
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).
To recall; to collect one's thoughts again, especially about past events.
(obsolete) To collect (things) together again.
To compose oneself.
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* 1847 , Newton Mallory Curtis, The Patrol of the Mountain (page 52)
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)- He was recalled to service after his retirement.
- She was recalled to London for the trial.
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- In fact, I hardly recall any occasion as a child when I was alone.
Synonyms
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Anagrams
* * English heteronyms ----recollect
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Etymology 1
FromVerb
(en verb)- I remember the concert clearly, but I can't recollect why I was there.
Etymology 2
Verb
(en verb)- The Tyrian queen Admired his fortunes, more admired the man; then recollected stood.
- The Major suddenly recollected himself, and withdrew his hand, and at the same time, threw himself into a chair.