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Remembrance vs Recall - What's the difference?

remembrance | recall |

As nouns the difference between remembrance and recall

is that remembrance is the act of remembering; a holding in mind, or bringing to mind; recollection while recall is the action or fact of calling someone or something back.

As a verb recall is

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

remembrance

English

(Webster 1913)

Alternative forms

* remembraunce

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of remembering; a holding in mind, or bringing to mind; recollection.
  • * Lest fierce remembrance wake my sudden rage. .
  • * Lest the remembrance of his grief should fail. .
  • The state of being remembered, or held in mind; memory; recollection.
  • * This, ever grateful, in remembrance bear. .
  • Something remembered; a person or thing kept in memory.
  • That which serves to keep in or bring to mind; a memorial; a token; a memento; a souvenir; a memorandum or note of something to be remembered.
  • * And on his breast a bloody cross he bore, The dear remembrance of his dying Lord. .
  • * Keep this remembrance for thy Julia's sake.
  • (obsolete) Something to be remembered; counsel; admonition; instruction.
  • Power of remembering; reach of personal knowledge; period over which one's memory extends.
  • * Thee I have heard relating what was done Ere my remembrance . .
  • Synonyms

    * recollection; reminiscence. See 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

    * (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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