(v. t.) To call back; to summon to return; as, to recall troops; to recall an ambassador.
(v. t.) To revoke; to annul by a subsequent act; to take back; to withdraw; as, to recall words, or a decree.
(v. t.) To call back to mind; to revive in memory; to recollect; to remember; as, to recall bygone days.
(n.) A calling back; a revocation.
(n.) A call on the trumpet, bugle, or drum, by which soldiers are recalled from duty, labor, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dietary intakes, measured by three 24-hour recalls, revealed that protein, iron and Vitamin C generally met or exceeded the Nutrition Recommendations for age.
(2) One was a long duration of symptoms as recalled at diagnosis.
(3) But I recall my own first encounter with that ideology, back in the 1990s.
(4) Although those receiving active pretraining plus mnemonics did not differ from one another at Time 3, they recalled more than those with no active pretraining.
(5) The dietary fibre intake of 25 patients with the irritable bowel syndrome was assessed by dietary recall over one week for the period before onset of symptoms, at diagnosis and after six months treatment with bran and a fibre-rich diet, and compared with controls matched for age and sex.
(6) "I wanted it to have a romantic feel," says Wilson, "recalling Donald Campbell and his Bluebird machines and that spirit of awe-inspiring adventure."
(7) The authors recall the advantages of low transcartilage incision in rhinoplasty and, by means of several technical details, illustrate the value of this approach in submucosal dissection.
(8) A final experiment confirmed a prediction from the above theory that when recalling the original sequence, omissions (recalling no word) will decrease and transpositions (giving the wrong word) will increase as noise level increases.
(9) In general, variables that affected recall and recognition of studied words had parallel effects on their associates.
(10) Standing as he explains the book's take-home point, Miliband recalls the author Michael Lewis's research showing that a quarter-back is the most highly paid player, but because they throw with their right arm they can often be floored by an attacker from their blindside.
(11) This study sought to determine how well individuals are able to recall accurately their food habits of 24 years ago and identify those factors that are predictive of recall ability.
(12) To estimate inaccuracy in a diarrhoea recall survey mothers of pre-school children in Teknaf, Bangladesh were interviewed every week from July 1980 through June 1983.
(13) This resulted in a false-positive recall incidence greater than 92% owing to various additional factors which also influence T4 levels: thyroxine-binding-globulin deficiency, prematurity, and maternal drug ingestion.
(14) Throughout the decade that it took GM to recall the Cobalt, there was a lack of accountability, a lack of urgency, and a failure of company personnel charged with ensuring the safety of the company's vehicles to understand how GM's own cars were designed.
(15) In this paper we describe a novel and reproducible technique for measuring cluster formation in suspension between purified human blood monocytes and purified autologous T lymphocytes, and its application to determining the effects of recall antigens and mitogen.
(16) Awareness of making dispositional inferences was only weakly correlated with disposition-cued recall.
(17) Our later measures – parliament's power to declare peace and war, MPs to be subject to a right to recall, an end to the royal prerogative, an elected Lords – were about a 21st-century democracy, with citizenship to be founded on a new bill of rights and responsibilities and, in time, a written constitution.
(18) We had a brief conversation and I said to him he was acting from high honour here, and I said how sorry I was this wasn’t happening in three or four years time..because Barry is a man of honour..and I think he is a very capable premier and I think he has been missed.” Asked whether he had ever met Nick di Girolamo , the prime minister said both he and Mr di Girolamo attended a lot of functions, and “I don’t for a moment say I have never met him but I don’t recall it.” But former federal Liberal MP Ross Cameron sounded much more sceptical about O’Farrell’s memory lapse when speaking to Sky News.
(19) Eighty-six adults serially recalled lists of visually presented consonant letters similar in auditory or visual features or dissimilar in both feature sets.
(20) Patterns of change and variability in text recall performance were assessed in seven elderly women by testing them weekly for up to 2 years.
Recap
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) First, I recapped Die Hard 2 – the insane cross-eyed Gizmo of the Die Hard world – a few months ago, and now I'm secretly determined to do the whole series before the Guardian film editors wise up and yank this feature from my warm, live hands.
(2) Syringes that have been redesigned to eliminate the need for recapping offer a major safety advantage.
(3) They’ve not been reading so we need to recap and then catch up.
(4) A set of programs, known as the ReCAP ISCN Translator, is used to create additional database records describing in detail the chromosome abnormalities present in each patient.
(5) To recap, the budget deficit is reducing at pre-cut projections, the national debt is increasing at an accelerated pace, we are printing money with the enthusiasm of crack-addicted forgers, we are selling anything that is not nailed down and still have a rising overall tax burden while spending less and less on public services.
(6) One third of the injuries were related to recapping.
(7) Photograph: David Levene 10.19am BST Royal Mail shares surge - a recap OK, let's recap on this morning's events.
(8) 12.03pm BST Bank of England - a recap OK, that's the end of the press conference.
(9) A brief conclusion recaps Mrs. F.'s discharge course and reviews some specific problems associated with right ventricular infarcts, of which critical care nurses need to be aware.
(10) To recap, Beach House formed in 2004 when French-born Victoria, a theatre graduate, vocalist and organist, finished her studies and moved to Baltimore to pursue a music project with an old friend.
(11) Syringes were flushed with air, needle recapped and replaced into their plastic cover.
(12) Over 12 months, the rate of recapping needles used for venipuncture and for percutaneous medication injections fell from 61% to 16% (p less than .0001).
(13) Markets would react positively to an adequate bank recap solution.
(14) To recap: Elton John called for a boycott of Dolce & Gabbana after the pair described babies born through IVF as “synthetic” in a magazine interview.
(15) Globin mRNAs containing (32)P label only in the cap (m(7)G(32)pppm(6)A(m)-) were prepared by recapping beta-eliminated globin mRNAs with the vaccinia virus enzymes, [alpha-(32)P]GTP, and unlabeled S-adenosylmethionine.
(16) Needlestick injuries were too few in number during the study period to detect any change accompanying the decreased recapping rate.
(17) Recap At a video-game launch party onboard an aircraft carrier, Patrick and his co-worker Owen meet Kevin, a Brit who Patrick flirts with unsuccessfully before learning he’s been hitting on his new boss.
(18) On the other hand, users of a simple device designed to reduce the risk of injury when recapping used needles were shown to incur a needlestick only once in every 16,100 venepunctures performed (P less than 0.001).
(19) "You wanted an example of an intelligent tattoo," recaps Matt Heath.
(20) These cartridge-needle safety units allow for only one-time use, thus doing away with the possibility of recapping.