different between recall vs reclaim

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

From Middle English reclaymen, recleymen, reclamen, from Anglo-Norman reclamer (noun reclaim and Middle French reclamer (noun reclaim), from Latin recl?m?, recl?m?re.

Pronunciation

verb

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???kle?m/, /?i??kle?m/

noun

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??i?kle?m/
• Rhymes: -e?m

Verb

reclaim (third-person singular simple present reclaims, present participle reclaiming, simple past and past participle reclaimed)

2. (transitive) To return land to a suitable condition for use.
3. (transitive) To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle.
4. (transitive) To claim something back; to repossess.
5. (transitive, dated) To return someone to a proper course of action, or correct an error; to reform.
   • 1609, Edward Hoby, A Letter to Mr. T[heophilus] H[iggons], late Minister: now Fugitive ... in answere of his first Motive

     Your errour, in time reclaimed, will be veniall.

   • a. 1729, John Rogers, The Goodness of God a Motive to Repentance

     It is the intention of Providence, in all the various expressions of his goodness, to reclaim mankind.

6. (transitive, archaic) To tame or domesticate a wild animal.

   • an eagle well reclaimed

7. (transitive, archaic) To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.

   • They were the head-strong horses, who hurried Octavius […] along, and were deaf to his reclaiming them.

8. (transitive, archaic) To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.
   • 1719, Daniel Waterland, A Vindication of Christ's Divinit

     Scripture reclaims, and the whole Catholic church reclaims, and Christian ears would not bear it.

   • 1882, Alexander Bain, Biography of James Mill

     At a later period Grote reclaimed strongly against Mill's setting Whately above Hamilton.

   • 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State and the Profane State

     True it is he was very wild in his youth till God (the best Chymick who can fix quicksilver it self) gratiously reclaim'd him

9. (obsolete, rare) To draw back; to give way.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)

10. (intransitive, law, Scotland) To appeal from the Lord Ordinary to the inner house of the Court of Session.

Related terms

Translations

Noun

reclaim (plural reclaims)

1. (obsolete, falconry) The calling back of a hawk.
2. (obsolete) The bringing back or recalling of a person; the fetching of someone back.
3. An effort to take something back, to reclaim something.

Anagrams

• Maricle, Miracle, Ramciel, car mile, claimer, miracle

Old French

Noun

reclaim m (oblique plural reclains, nominative singular reclains, nominative plural reclaim)

1. reputation

Descendants

• English: reclaim

References

• reclaim on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub