different between withdraw vs recall

English

Etymology

From Middle English withdrawen (“to draw away, draw back”), from with- (“away, back”) + drawen (“to draw”). More at with-, draw.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w?ð?d???/, /w???d???/
• Rhymes: -??

Verb

withdraw (third-person singular simple present withdraws, present participle withdrawing, simple past withdrew, past participle withdrawn)

1. (transitive) To pull (something) back, aside, or away.
   • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

     Impossible it is that God should withdraw his presence from anything.

2. (intransitive) To stop talking to, or interacting with, other people and start thinking thoughts that are not related to what is happening around.
3. (transitive) To take back (a comment, etc); retract.

   to withdraw false charges

4. (transitive) To remove, to stop providing (one's support, etc); to take out of service.
5. (transitive) To extract (money from an account).
6. (intransitive) To retreat.
7. (intransitive) To be in withdrawal from an addictive drug etc. [from 20th c.]
   • 1994, Edward St Aubyn, Bad News, Picador 2006, p. 201:

     Simon had tried to rob a bank while he was withdrawing, but he had been forced to surrender to the police after they had fired several volleys at him.

Synonyms

• (take back): recant, unsay; See also Thesaurus:recant

Translations

References

• “withdraw”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

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)