Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - recall

~1 v 1 »REMEMBER STH« (not in progressive) to deliberately remember a particular fact, event, or situation from the past, especially in order to tell someone about it  (recall that)  (I seem to recall that Barry was with us at the time. | recall doing sth)  (I don't recall ever meeting her. | recall what/how/where etc)  (Afterwards Olivia could not recall what they had talked about. | as I recall spoken (=used when you are telling someone what you remember about a past situation))  (As I recall, it was you who suggested this idea in the first place.) 2 »PERSON« to officially tell someone to come back from a place where they have been sent + from  (The Ambassador was recalled from Washington.) 3 »PRODUCT« if a company recalls one of its products, it asks you to return it because there may be something wrong with it  (The B Series cars have been recalled to the manufacturers due to an engine fault.) 4 »ON A COMPUTER« to bring information back onto the screen of a computer 5 »BE SIMILAR TO« if something recalls something else, it makes you think of it because it is very similar  (a style of film-making that recalls Alfred Hitchcock) - recallable adj ~2 n 1 the ability to remember something that you have learned or experienced  (powers of recall (=ability to remember) | total recall (=the ability to remember everything) | instant recall (=the ability to remember a fact immediately)) 2 a command telling someone to return from a place where they have been officially sent + of  (the recall of all Allied seamen to their own countries) 3 beyond/past recall impossible to bring back or remember