Recall may refer to:
- Recollection, recall from memory
- Product recall
- Recall election
- Letter to recall sent to return an ambassador from a country, either as a diplomatic protest or because the diplomat is being reassigned elsewhere and is being replaced by another envoy
- Recall to employment after a layoff
- Recall (information retrieval), a statistical measure (contrasted with precision), the fraction of (all) relevant material that is returned by the search
- Recall, in dog training, the process of bringing a dog to the caller from a distance
- Recall (bugle call), a bugle call used to signify that an activity should end
- Recall (broadcasting), the changing of a broadcasting station's call sign, parallel to rebranding
- Recall (email), a feature in Microsoft Outlook for retracting ill-advised emails and spam message alerts
- Recall, a button on a British telephone
- Recall, a button on a calculator
- ReCALL, an academic journal about computer-assisted language learning
Famous quotes containing the word recall:
“Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.”
—Bible: New Testament Jesus, in Matthew, 5:5.
The third of the Beatitudes, from the Sermon on the Mount. The words recall those in Proverbs 37:11, “But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.” In his Notebooks, the author Samuel Butler wrote, “I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.” (Samuel Butler’s Notebooks, p. 220, 1951)
“This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and ... if I think of human beings I’ve known and of my own life, such as it is, I can’t recall any case of pain which didn’t, on the whole, enrich life.”
—Malcolm Muggeridge (1903–1990)
“It is, after all, very interesting that sound can reflect like water, like a mirror. And notice that Vinteuil’s phrase only shows me that to which I did not pay attention at the time. Of my worries, of my loves at that time, it does not recall a thing, it has made the exchange.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)