recall

se rappeler, se souvenir de

Faire revenir à l’esprit quelque chose du passé.

En anglais simple : To bring something from the past back into your mind.

• I can't recall his name.
• She recalled walking home in the rain.
• Do you recall what he said?

Comment l'utiliser : recall doing something (I recall meeting her at a party.); recall that… (She recalled that the door had been open.); recall what/how/where… (Can you recall where you put the keys?)

Synonymes : remember, recollect

Contraires : forget

Expressions courantes : recall someone's name, recall the details, clearly recall

rappeler

Demander aux clients ou aux magasins de rendre un produit défectueux ou potentiellement dangereux.

En anglais simple : To ask customers or shops to return a product because it has a fault or may be unsafe.

• The company recalled the toys.
• Thousands of cars were recalled because of faulty brakes.
• Will the manufacturer recall this batch of medicine?

Synonymes : call back

Expressions courantes : recall a product, recall faulty cars, recall a batch

rappeler

Demander officiellement à quelqu’un de revenir dans un lieu ou à son poste.

En anglais simple : To officially tell someone to return to a place or job.

• The government recalled its ambassador.
• Workers were recalled after the factory reopened.
• They recalled her from leave to deal with the emergency.

Comment l'utiliser : recall someone from something (The government recalled its ambassador from the country.); recall someone to something (Several officers were recalled to duty.)

Synonymes : call back, summon back

Expressions courantes : recall an ambassador, recall someone home, recall someone from

appeler de nouveau

Appeler quelqu’un une autre fois.

En anglais simple : To call someone another time.

• He recalled her, but she did not answer.
• The guard recalled my name more loudly.
• When nobody responded, she recalled the children.

Synonymes : call again

Expressions courantes : recall someone, recall someone's name

rappel

Demande officielle de rapporter un produit défectueux ou potentiellement dangereux.

En anglais simple : An official request to return a product because it has a fault or may be unsafe.

• The recall affects five thousand cars.
• Customers received a product recall notice.
• A fault in the brakes led to a nationwide recall.

Comment l'utiliser : recall of something (The company announced a recall of its baby chairs.)

Expressions courantes : product recall, safety recall, issue a recall, recall of something

mémoire, capacité de rappel

Capacité à se souvenir de renseignements ou de choses vécues.

En anglais simple : The ability to remember information or past experiences.

• She has excellent recall.
• Sleep can improve your recall of new information.
• The test measured children's recall of a short story.

Comment l'utiliser : recall of something (His recall of small details is impressive.)

Synonymes : memory, recollection

Expressions courantes : good recall, poor recall, total recall, recall of something

révocation, révocation populaire

Procédure permettant aux électeurs de retirer son poste à une personne élue avant la fin de son mandat.

En anglais simple : A process in which voters can remove an elected official before their time in office ends.

• Voters signed a recall petition.
• The mayor faces a recall election next month.
• The recall failed because too few signatures were collected.

Expressions courantes : recall election, recall petition, recall vote

rappel, sensibilité

Proportion des résultats pertinents qu’une recherche ou un système informatique retrouve parmi tous ceux qui existent.

En anglais simple : The share of all relevant results that a search or computer system successfully finds.

• The search system has high recall.
• Adding more search terms may improve recall.
• We measured precision and recall on the same dataset.

Synonymes : sensitivity, true positive rate

Expressions courantes : high recall, low recall, precision and recall