direct vs recall

direct

verb
  • To aim (something) at (something else). 

  • To manage, control, steer. 

  • To point out to or show (somebody) the right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way. 

  • To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order. 

adj
  • having a single flight number. 

  • Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end. 

  • Pertaining to, or effected immediately by, action of the people through their votes instead of through one or more representatives or delegates. 

  • Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous. 

  • Proceeding without deviation or interruption. 

  • Straightforward; sincere. 

  • In the line of descent; not collateral. 

  • In the direction of the general planetary motion, or from west to east; in the order of the signs; not retrograde; said of the motion of a celestial body. 

adv
  • Directly. 

recall

verb
  • To call back, bring back or summon (someone) to a specific place, station etc. 

  • To bring back (someone) to or from a particular mental or physical state, activity etc. 

  • To remove an elected official through a petition and direct vote. 

  • To call back (a situation, event etc.) to one's mind; to remember, recollect. 

  • To call again, to call another time. 

  • To request or order the return of (a faulty product). 

  • To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order). 

noun
  • Memory; the ability to remember. 

  • The fraction of (all) relevant material that is returned by a search. 

  • 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. 

  • Request of the return of a faulty product. 

  • The right or procedure by which a public official may be removed from office before the end of their 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. 

How often have the words direct and recall occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )