re-call

See also: recall

English

Etymology

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

Verb

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

1. (transitive) Alternative form of recall (“To call again.”)
   • 1817, Edward Baines, History of the Wars of the French Revolution: Volume 2, page 303:

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

   • 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:

     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.

Anagrams

• caller, cellar