1. [verb] (transitive) To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order). [from 16th c.]
2. [verb] (transitive) To call back, bring back or summon (someone) to a specific place, station etc. [from 16th c.]
3. [verb] (transitive) To bring back (someone) to or from a particular mental or physical state, activity etc. [from 16th c.]
4. [verb] (transitive) To call back (a situation, event etc.) to one's mind; to remember, recollect. [from 16th c.]
5. [verb] (transitive) (intransitive) To call again, to call another time. [from 17th c.]
6. [verb] (transitive) To request or order the return of (a faulty product). [from 20th c.]
7. [noun] The action or fact of calling someone or something back.
8. [noun] A product recall (request of the return of a faulty product).
9. [noun] The right or procedure by which a public official may be removed from office before the end of his/her 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.
10. [noun] 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.
11. [noun] Memory; the ability to remember.
12. [noun] In Information retrieval, the fraction of (all) relevant material that is returned by a search
13. [noun] A request by the manufacturer of a defective product to return the product (as for replacement or repair).
14. [noun] A call to return; 'the recall of our ambassador'.
15. [noun] A bugle call that signals troops to return.
16. [noun] The process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort); 'he has total recall of the episode'.
17. [noun] The act of removing an official by petition.
18. [verb] Recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection; 'I can't remember saying any such thing'; 'I can't think what her last name was'; 'can you remember her phone number?'; 'Do you remember that he once loved you?'; 'call up memories'.
19. [verb] Go back to something earlier; 'This harks back to a previous remark of his'.
20. [verb] Call to mind; 'His words echoed John F. Kennedy'.
21. [verb] Summon to return; 'The ambassador was recalled to his country'; 'The company called back many of the workers it had laid off during the recession'.
22. [verb] Cause one's (or someone else's) thoughts or attention to return from a reverie or digression; 'She was recalled by a loud laugh'.
23. [verb] Make unavailable; bar from sale or distribution; 'The company recalled the product when it was found to be faulty'.
24. [verb] Cause to be returned; 'recall the defective auto tires'; 'The manufacturer tried to call back the spoilt yoghurt'.
