word-vault/dist/data/cards/re/recall.json

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{
    "term": "recall",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "recall",
            "heSheIt": "recalls"
        },
        "pastSimple": "recalled",
        "pastParticiple": "recalled",
        "ingForm": "recalling"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to remember something",
            "sensetop": "recall somethingrecall doing somethingrecall somebody/something doing somethingrecall that…recall what, when, etc.recall + speech",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She could not recall his name.",
                    "contextForm": "recall something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Many years later Muir recalled his days at Glasgow University."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I cannot recall a time when the country faced such serious problems."
                },
                {
                    "text": "‘I may have; I don't recall,’ she said."
                },
                {
                    "text": "If I recall correctly, he lives in Luton."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I can't recall meeting her before.",
                    "contextForm": "recall doing something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I vaguely recall seeing the film."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I seem to recall receiving an email from a reader a while ago."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I seem to recall him mentioning a brother once.",
                    "contextForm": "recall somebody/something doing something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He recalled that she always came home late on Wednesdays.",
                    "contextForm": "recall that…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She later recalled that she had met him once."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Can you recall exactly what happened?",
                    "contextForm": "recall what, when, etc."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I can vividly recall where and when I saw them."
                },
                {
                    "text": "‘It was on a Thursday in March,’ he recalled.",
                    "contextForm": "recall + speech"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Becky could still recall that first meeting clearly."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I am old enough now to wistfully recall moments of my youth."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I couldn't quite recall the date."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I recall reading in an interview that he loved to cook."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I seem to recall that she said she was going away."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I well recall walking the five miles to school every morning."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He could easily recall the smell of the orange groves."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She recalled how she would go for walks along the beach late at night."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "recollect",
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["clearly", "distinctly", "vividly"],
                "verb + recall": ["seem to", "be able to", "can"],
                "phrases": [
                    "recall how…",
                    "recall seeing, reading, hearing, etc. something"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to make somebody think of something",
            "sensetop": "recall something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The poem recalls Eliot's ‘The Waste Land’."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "evoke"
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "to order somebody to return",
            "sensetop": "recall somebodyrecall somebody to something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Both countries recalled their ambassadors.",
                    "contextForm": "recall somebody"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was recalled to military duty.",
                    "contextForm": "recall somebody to something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They have both been recalled to the Welsh squad *(= selected as members of the team after a time when they were not selected)*."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "to ask for something to be returned, often because there is something wrong with it",
            "sensetop": "recall something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The company has recalled all the faulty hairdryers."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈkɔːl/",
                "audio": "re/recall/recall__gb_2.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈkɔːlz/",
                "audio": "re/recall/recalls__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈkɔːld/",
                "audio": "re/recall/recalled__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈkɔːlɪŋ/",
                "audio": "re/recall/recalling__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈkɔːl/",
                "audio": "re/recall/recall__us_1_rr.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈkɔːlz/",
                "audio": "re/recall/recalls__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈkɔːld/",
                "audio": "re/recall/recalled__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈkɔːlɪŋ/",
                "audio": "re/recall/recalling__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 16th cent. (as a verb): from re- ‘again’ + call, suggested by Latin revocare or French rappeler ‘call back’."
}