re-call

A form of recall — To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order).

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Meanings

verbre-call (third-person singular simple present re-calls, present participle re-calling, simple past and past participle re-called)

present singular third person re-calls · participle present re-calling · participle past re-called · past re-called

  1. alternativetransitiveAlternative form of recall (“To call again.”).

    In 1792 the troubles in Poland re-called him to arms.

    1817, Edward Baines, History of the Wars of the French Revolution: Volume 2, page 303
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    animationTick calls _tickAnimation on all of the chart elements, calls the main _render method of the chart to render it out to the canvas, and finally, if any of the elements were still in progress, requests a new animation frame that will re-call animationTick when the new frame is ready.

    2015, Jon J. Raasch, Graham Murray, Vadim Ogievetsky, Joseph Lowery, “Exploring Charting Tools”, in JavaScript® and jQuery® for Data Analysis and Visualization, Wrox, →ISBN, →LCCN, section “Creating HTML5 Canvas Charts”, page 189

Origin

From re- + call, with hyphen to avoid confusion with recall (“remember”).

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APA

re-call. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/re-call

MLA

“re-call.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/re-call. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “re-call,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/re-call.

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