The difference between Recall and Recant
When used as verbs, recall means to withdraw, retract (one's words etc.), whereas recant means to withdraw or repudiate a statement or opinion formerly expressed, especially formally and publicly.
Recall is also noun with the meaning: the action or fact of calling someone or something back. request of the return of a faulty product the right or procedure by which a public official may be removed from office before the end of his/her term of office, by a vote of the people to be taken on the filing of a petition signed by a required number or percentage of qualified voters. the right or procedure by which the decision of a court may be directly reversed or annulled by popular vote, as was advocated, in 1912, in the platform of the progressive party for certain cases involving the police power of the state.
check bellow for the other definitions of Recall and Recant
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Recall as a verb (transitive):
To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order).
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Recall as a verb (transitive):
To call back, bring back or summon (someone) to a specific place, station etc.
Examples:
"He was recalled to service after his retirement."
"She was recalled to London for the trial."
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Recall as a verb (transitive):
To bring back (someone) or a particular mental or physical state, activity etc.
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Recall as a verb (transitive):
To call back (a situation, event etc.) to one's mind; to remember, recollect.
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Recall as a verb (transitive, intransitive):
To call again, to call another time.
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Recall as a verb (transitive):
To request or order the return of (a faulty product).
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Recall as a noun:
The action or fact of calling someone or something back. Request of the return of a faulty product The right or procedure by which a public official may be removed from office before the end of his/her term of office, by a vote of the people to be taken on the filing of a petition signed by a required number or percentage of qualified voters. The right or procedure by which the decision of a court may be directly reversed or annulled by popular vote, as was advocated, in 1912, in the platform of the Progressive party for certain cases involving the police power of the state.
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Recall as a noun:
Memory; the ability to remember.
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Recall as a noun (information retrieval):
the fraction of (all) relevant material that is returned by a search
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Recant as a verb (ambitransitive):
To withdraw or repudiate a statement or opinion formerly expressed, especially formally and publicly.
Examples:
"Convince me that I am wrong, and I will recant."