rebate vs recall

rebate

verb
  • To abate; to withdraw. 

  • To deduct or return an amount from a bill or payment 

  • To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise. 

  • To cut a rebate (or rabbet) in something 

  • Of a falcon: to return to the hand after bating; see bate². 

  • To diminish or lessen something 

noun
  • An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood. 

  • A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements. 

  • The return of part of an amount already paid. 

  • The edge of a roll of film, from which no image can be developed. 

  • A deduction from an amount that is paid; an abatement. 

  • A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar. 

  • A rectangular groove made to hold two pieces (of wood etc) together; a rabbet. 

recall

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

  • 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). 

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 rebate and recall occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )