recall vs recollection

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). 

recollection

noun
  • The act of recollecting, or recalling to the memory; the act of recalling to memory. 

  • The act or practice of collecting or concentrating the mind; concentration; self-control. 

  • That which is recollected; something called to mind; a reminiscence. 

  • A spiritual retreat, especially one that is short. 

  • Process of collecting again. 

  • The power of recalling ideas to the mind, or the period within which things can be recollected; remembrance. 

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