recall vs recognize

recall

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

  • 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 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. 

recognize

verb
  • To match (something or someone which one currently perceives) to a memory of some previous encounter with the same person or thing. 

  • To realize or discover the nature of something; apprehend quality in. 

  • To show formal appreciation of, as with an award, commendation etc. 

  • to cognize again 

  • To have the property to bind to specific antigens. 

  • To acknowledge or consider (as being a certain thing or having a certain quality or property). 

  • To acknowledge the existence or legality of; to treat as valid or worthy of consideration. 

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