Summon vs Recall - What's the difference?
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To call people together; to convene.
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To ask someone to come; to send for.
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(legal) To order someone to appear in court, especially by issuing a summons.
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.
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(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.
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a product recall (request of the return of a faulty product).
As verbs the difference between summon and recall
is that summon is to call people together; to convene while recall is to withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order).As nouns the difference between summon and recall
is that summon is call, command, order while recall is the action or fact of calling someone or something back.summon
English
(wikipedia summon)Verb
(en-verb) (transitive)- Silence is primary, summoning presence to itself; so it's a connection to the realm of origin.
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- City will feel nonplussed when they review the tape and Pellegrini had to summon all his restraint in the post-match interviews.
Derived terms
* summons * summon uprecall
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.