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recall
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)
- (transitive) To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order). [from 16th c.]
- Synonyms: withcall; see also Thesaurus:recant
- (transitive) To call back, bring back or summon (someone) to a specific place, station etc. [from 16th c.]
- (transitive, US politics) To remove an elected official through a petition and direct vote.
- (transitive) To bring back (someone) to or from a particular mental or physical state, activity etc. [from 16th c.]
- (transitive) To call back (a situation, event etc.) to one's mind; to remember, recollect. [from 16th c.]
- (transitive, intransitive) To call again, to call another time. [from 17th c.]
- (transitive) To request or order the return of (a faulty product). [from 20th c.]
Translations
Noun
recall (countable and uncountable, plural recalls)
- The action or fact of calling someone or something back.
- Request of the return of a faulty product.
- (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.
- (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.
- Request of the return of a faulty product.
- Memory; the ability to remember.
- (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)
- recall (return of faulty products)
recall From the web:
- what recalls are on my car
- what recalls
- what recall means
- what recall on dog food
- what recall on hot pockets
- what recall an email means
- what recall on metformin
- what recalls the history of the early church
undoing
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?du???/
Etymology 1
From Middle English undoinge, undoynge, ondoynge; equivalent to undo +? -ing.
Noun
undoing (plural undoings)
- The act of loosening or unfastening
- Ruin; defeat, (also) that which causes defeat or ruin.
- His fatal flaw was his undoing. In a sense he defeated himself.
- 1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 5:
- So far as the ape was concerned, Sabor reasoned correctly. The little fellow crouched trembling just an instant, but that instant was quite long enough to prove his undoing.
- Annulment; reversal
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English undoynge, undoand, from Old English und?nde (“undoing”), from Proto-Germanic *andad?ndz, present participle of *andad?n? (“to undo”). Cognate with Dutch ontdoend (“undoing”).
Verb
undoing
- present participle of undo
Anagrams
- ounding
undoing From the web:
- what undoing
- what undoing means
- undoing what's been done
- undoing what channel
- undoing what time
- undoing what happens
- undoing what night
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