单词 | recall |
释义 | verb | noun recallrecall1 /rɪˈkɔl/ ●●○ S3 W3 verb [transitive] 1REMEMBER something [not in progressive] to deliberately remember a particular fact, event, or situation from the past, especially in order to tell someone about it SYN recollect: I couldn’t even recall his name.recall that Later, he recalled that McGregor had missed the appointment.recall doing something I don’t recall ever meeting her.recall what/how/where etc. Mrs. Adkins cannot recall what happened the night she was attacked. As I recall, it was particularly hot that summer.2PRODUCT if a company recalls one of its products, it asks you to return it because there may be something wrong with it: Over 10,000 of the irons had to be recalled.3BE SIMILAR TO formal if something recalls something else, it makes you think of it because it is very similar: a style of film-making that recalls Alfred Hitchcock4POLITICS social studies, politics to vote to remove a politician from their political position5BRING somebody BACK to officially tell someone to come back from a place where he or she has been sent: recall somebody from something The Ambassador was recalled from Washington.6ON A COMPUTER to bring information back onto the screen of a computer—recallable adjective verb | noun recallrecall2 /ˈrikɔl, rɪˈkɔl/ ●○○ noun 1[uncountable] the ability to remember something that you have learned or experienced: Your recall may improve if you take notes. He has almost total recall (=the ability to remember everything) of everything he reads.2[singular, uncountable] social studies, politics a vote to remove someone from a political position, or the act of being removed by a vote: recall of the recall of four city council officials3[countable] an action in which a company tells people to return a product they bought because there is something wrong with it4[singular, uncountable] an official order telling someone to return from a place, especially before they were expected to: the recall of their ambassador5beyond recall impossible to bring back or remember |
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