| come to mind | | |
| v. (cognition) | 1. come to mind, spring to mind | be remembered.; "His name comes to mind when you mention the strike" |
| ~ appear | come into sight or view.; "He suddenly appeared at the wedding"; "A new star appeared on the horizon" |
| remember | | |
| v. (cognition) | 1. call back, call up, recall, recollect, remember, retrieve, think | recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection.; "I can't remember saying any such thing"; "I can't think what her last name was"; "can you remember her phone number?"; "Do you remember that he once loved you?"; "call up memories" |
| ~ know | perceive as familiar.; "I know this voice!" |
| ~ recognize, recognise | perceive to be the same. |
| ~ brush up, refresh, review | refresh one's memory.; "I reviewed the material before the test" |
| v. (cognition) | 2. remember, think of | keep in mind for attention or consideration.; "Remember the Alamo"; "Remember to call your mother every day!"; "Think of the starving children in India!" |
| ~ bear in mind, mind | keep in mind. |
| ~ retain | keep in one's mind.; "I cannot retain so much information" |
| ~ keep note | maintain in the forefront of one's awareness.; "He kept note of the location of the soldiers" |
| ~ characterize, characterise, qualify | describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of.; "You can characterize his behavior as that of an egotist"; "This poem can be characterized as a lament for a dead lover" |
| v. (cognition) | 3. remember, think back | recapture the past; indulge in memories.; "he remembered how he used to pick flowers" |
| ~ reminisce | recall the past.; "The grandparents sat there, reminiscing all afternoon" |
| ~ retrospect, look back, review | look back upon (a period of time, sequence of events); remember.; "she reviewed her achievements with pride" |
| v. (possession) | 4. remember | show appreciation to.; "He remembered her in his will" |
| ~ bequeath, will, leave | leave or give by will after one's death.; "My aunt bequeathed me all her jewelry"; "My grandfather left me his entire estate" |
| v. (communication) | 5. remember | mention favorably, as in prayer.; "remember me in your prayers" |
| ~ cite, mention, refer, advert, name, bring up | make reference to.; "His name was mentioned in connection with the invention" |
| v. (communication) | 6. commend, remember | mention as by way of greeting or to indicate friendship.; "Remember me to your wife" |
| ~ cite, mention, refer, advert, name, bring up | make reference to.; "His name was mentioned in connection with the invention" |
| v. (cognition) | 7. remember | exercise, or have the power of, memory.; "After the shelling, many people lost the ability to remember"; "some remember better than others" |
| ~ associate, colligate, link, relate, connect, tie in, link up | make a logical or causal connection.; "I cannot connect these two pieces of evidence in my mind"; "colligate these facts"; "I cannot relate these events at all" |
| v. (cognition) | 8. commemorate, remember | call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony.; "We remembered the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz"; "Remember the dead of the First World War" |
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| recall | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. callback, recall | a request by the manufacturer of a defective product to return the product (as for replacement or repair). |
| ~ asking, request | the verbal act of requesting. |
| n. (communication) | 2. recall | a call to return.; "the recall of our ambassador" |
| ~ call | a request.; "many calls for Christmas stories"; "not many calls for buggywhips" |
| n. (communication) | 3. recall | a bugle call that signals troops to return. |
| ~ bugle call | a signal broadcast by the sound of a bugle. |
| n. (cognition) | 4. recall, recollection, reminiscence | the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort).; "he has total recall of the episode" |
| ~ remembering, memory | the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered.; "he can do it from memory"; "he enjoyed remembering his father" |
| ~ mind | recall or remembrance.; "it came to mind" |
| ~ reconstructive memory, reconstruction | recall that is hypothesized to work by storing abstract features which are then used to construct the memory during recall. |
| ~ reproductive memory, reproduction | recall that is hypothesized to work by storing the original stimulus input and reproducing it during recall. |
| ~ regurgitation | recall after rote memorization.; "he complained that school was just memorization and regurgitation" |
| n. (act) | 5. recall | the act of removing an official by petition. |
| ~ abrogation, repeal, annulment | the act of abrogating; an official or legal cancellation. |
| ~ america, the states, u.s.a., united states, united states of america, us, usa, u.s. | North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776. |
| v. (communication) | 6. come back, hark back, recall, return | go back to something earlier.; "This harks back to a previous remark of his" |
| ~ denote, refer | have as a meaning.; "`multi-' denotes `many' " |
| ~ go back, recur | return in thought or speech to something. |
| v. (stative) | 7. echo, recall | call to mind.; "His words echoed John F. Kennedy" |
| ~ resemble | appear like; be similar or bear a likeness to.; "She resembles her mother very much"; "This paper resembles my own work" |
| v. (communication) | 8. call back, recall | summon to return.; "The ambassador was recalled to his country"; "The company called back many of the workers it had laid off during the recession" |
| ~ send for, call | order, request, or command to come.; "She was called into the director's office"; "Call the police!" |
| v. (cognition) | 9. recall | cause one's (or someone else's) thoughts or attention to return from a reverie or digression.; "She was recalled by a loud laugh" |
| ~ focus, pore, rivet, center, centre, concentrate | direct one's attention on something.; "Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies" |
| v. (social) | 10. recall | make unavailable; bar from sale or distribution.; "The company recalled the product when it was found to be faulty" |
| ~ strike down, cancel | declare null and void; make ineffective.; "Cancel the election results"; "strike down a law" |
| ~ retire | withdraw from circulation or from the market, as of bills, shares, and bonds. |
| v. (possession) | 11. call back, call in, recall, withdraw | cause to be returned.; "recall the defective auto tires"; "The manufacturer tried to call back the spoilt yoghurt" |
| ~ take | take into one's possession.; "We are taking an orphan from Romania"; "I'll take three salmon steaks" |
| ~ decommission | withdraw from active service.; "The warship was decommissioned in 1998" |
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