different between recall vs abolition

English

Alternative forms

• recal (obsolete)
• (to call again): re-call

Etymology

From re- +? call, probably modelled on Latin revoc?re, French rappeler, English withcall.

Pronunciation

Verb

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???k??l/
• (General American) enPR: r??kôl, r??kôl, IPA^(key): /???k?l/, /?i?k?l/
• Rhymes: -??l
• Hyphenation: re?call

Noun

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??i?k??l/
• (General American) enPR: ?r??kôl, r??kôl, r??kôl, IPA^(key): /??i?k?l/, /?i?k?l/, /???k?l/
• Rhymes: -i?k??l, -??l
• Hyphenation: re?call

Verb

recall (third-person singular simple present recalls, present participle recalling, simple past and past participle recalled)

1. (transitive) To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order). [from 16th c.]

   Synonyms: withcall; see also Thesaurus:recant

2. (transitive) To call back, bring back or summon (someone) to a specific place, station etc. [from 16th c.]
3. (transitive, US politics) To remove an elected official through a petition and direct vote.
4. (transitive) To bring back (someone) to or from a particular mental or physical state, activity etc. [from 16th c.]
5. (transitive) To call back (a situation, event etc.) to one's mind; to remember, recollect. [from 16th c.]
6. (transitive, intransitive) To call again, to call another time. [from 17th c.]
7. (transitive) To request or order the return of (a faulty product). [from 20th c.]

Translations

Noun

recall (countable and uncountable, plural recalls)

1. The action or fact of calling someone or something back.
   1. Request of the return of a faulty product.

   2. (chiefly US politics) The right or procedure by which a public official may be removed from office before the end of their term of office, by a vote of the people to be taken on the filing of a petition signed by a required number or percentage of qualified voters.

   3. (US politics) The right or procedure by which the decision of a court may be directly reversed or annulled by popular vote, as was advocated, in 1912, in the platform of the Progressive Party for certain cases involving the police power of the state.
2. Memory; the ability to remember.
3. (information retrieval, machine learning) The fraction of (all) relevant material that is returned by a search.

   Synonym: sensitivity

Translations

Further reading

• product recall on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• recall (memory) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• recall election on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• precision and recall on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• caller, cellar

Portuguese

Noun

recall m (plural recalls)

1. recall (return of faulty products)

English

Etymology

First attested in 1529. Either from Middle French abolition, or directly from Latin aboliti?, from abole? (“destroy”). Compare French abolition. Equivalent to abolish +? -tion.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?æb.??l??.n?/

Noun

abolition (plural abolitions)

1. The act of abolishing; an annulling; abrogation [First attested around the early 16^th century.]

2. The state of being abolished
3. (historical, often capitalised, Britain, US) The ending of the slave trade or of slavery. [First attested around the early 18^th century.]
4. (historical, often capitalised, Australia) The ending of convict transportation. [First attested around the late 18^th century.]
5. (obsolete) An amnesty; a putting out of memory. [Attested from the early 17^th century to the early 19^th century.]

Usage notes

The sense "amnesty", and in general any reference to "abolition of" a person, is now obsolete or unusual.

Antonyms

• (act of abolishing): establishment, foundation

Derived terms

• abolitionism
• abolitionist

Translations

References

• abolition in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

French

Etymology

From Latin abolitionem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.b?.li.sj??/

Noun

abolition f (plural abolitions)

1. abolition

Derived terms

• abolitionnisme
• abolitionniste

Related terms

• abolir

Further reading

• “abolition” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).