history vs recall

history

noun
  • A record or narrative description of past events. 

  • A record of previous user events, especially of visited web pages in a browser. 

  • The aggregate of past events. 

  • Something that no longer exists or is no longer relevant. 

  • The portion of the past that is known and recorded by this field of study, as opposed to all earlier and unknown times that preceded it (prehistory). 

  • A set of events involving an entity. 

  • Shared experience or interaction. 

  • The branch of knowledge that studies the past; the assessment of notable events. 

  • A list of past and continuing medical conditions of an individual or family. 

recall

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. 

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

  • 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). 

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