to call back
4
2.3
- phrasal verb
- /kɔl bæk/
:
evocar
- Writing it all down is like I'm calling back to them.
The boy and me perched on the curb of this page calls back between blue sky popsicle licks.
- The boy and me perched on the curb of this page calls back between blue sky popsicle licks.
Examples
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Thank you for helping us to be called back to our whole selves and our embodied wisdom and truth.
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I mean, maybe try to think of the title - if you can and call back?
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Suddenly, I wanted badly to remember, to call back every moment of the life that was leaving.
Fiction book (1997) -
It is fitting that they should be called back to mind and revisited with care, not out of curiosity or the desire to examine roots, but in order to make the discussion fecund.
Academic text (1992) -
As I sat quietly, I began to call back memories of my childhood summer vacations.
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During the therapy session, I was encouraged to call back to moments that made me happy.
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She tried to call back the details of that unforgettable evening with friends.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To think about something from the past
∞
1.0
To remember something from before
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2.4
Remember something from the past
323
2.6
Think about the past, especially a time you remember
143
3.0
Make someone remember something from the past
92
1.9
Remember things that happened in the past
57
3.5
To seem familiar and make you remember something
44
4.1
To bring a memory or fact back into your mind
21
3.5
To make someone remember the past, for example a song or photo
20
3.7
To remember something from the past
18
6.2
Go back to the same idea in thought or conversation
11
3.2
To make a memory or image appear in your mind
8
5.3
To suddenly see or feel a past event as if it is happening now
2
6.3
Think about something that happened in the past to remember it
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The computing sense keeps a visible link to the constituents: 'call' (invoke) and 'back' (return/again), so a learner could infer a notion of invoking something again or in response. However, the technical meaning — executing a previously supplied function in response to an event — is a specialized, domain-specific extension that a B1 learner who only knows the literal words is unlikely to predict fully.
Etymology
Call back in the sense of 'remember' comes from the picture of calling a memory back into your mind, like calling a friend to come into the room. So it means 'to bring a memory to mind'.