Call Back

Definitions: Call Back

Call Back

Verb

1. Cause to be returned; "recall the defective auto tires"; The manufacturer tried to call back the spoilt yoghurt".

2. 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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Call Back

The Past

Phrase: time was; the time has been, the time hath been; you can't go home again; fuimus Troes; fruit Ilium; hoc erat in more majorum; "O call back yesterday, bid time return"; tempi passati; "the eternal landscape of the past"; ultimus Romanorum; "what's past is prologue"; "whose yesterdays look backward with a smile".

Crosswords: Call Back

They'll call back. (The Big Lebowski; writing credit: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen)

When would be a good time to call back sir? (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

Please hang up and don't call back. (Digimon: Digital Monsters; writing credit: Dayna Barron)

The Call Back (1914)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Don't call back : a suspenseful drama in two acts (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Patients and family members are encouraged to call back as often as needed to get their questions answered or express their point of view. OSHI receives approximately 1000 inquiries (phone and e-mail) from patients and family members annually requesting access to unapproved products. (references)

Business

This sub-sector includes toll-free services, call center services, telefax/e-mail transmission, outsourcing services, Internet services and miscellaneous services -- i.e., calling cards, call back and satellite services, technical maintenance and assistance. (references)

These include toll-free national and international services, including shared services; call center services for telecommunications operators, international call back services and pre-paid calling cards; outsourcing services, Internet access and related services; and satellite services. (references)

Travel

Ghana

The Sprint access code is 01900. Call Back Services have also become popular. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "call back": call back to mind ♦ To call back. Additional references.

Albanian

marr mbrapsht (recall, take back, withdraw), i them të kthehet, e marr në telefon. (various references)

Bulgarian 

отвръщам (avert, reciprocate, rejoin, replicate, reply, requite, return, say back). (various references)

Czech

zavolat zpìt (call off), odvolat (abolish, abrogate, annul, call, call away, call off, cancel, countermand, cry off, draw off, recall, recant, renounce, repeal, rescind, retract, reverse, revoke, swallow, take back, take off, undo, unsay, unswear, withdraw). (various references)

German

zurückrufen (callback, phone back, recall, ring back, to ring back, withdraw), zurücknehmen (bring back, cancel, go back on, recant, retract, reverse, revoke, take back, to take back, withdraw). (various references)

Greek 

αναπλάθω (call back to mind, reform). (various references)

Hungarian

visszahív (recall, to call back, to countermand, to recall, to repeal). (various references)

Italian

richiamare (advertence, appeal, attract, call, call again, callback, phone back, recall, refer, retrieve, ring back). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

呼び�"す (to call back, to recall), 呼び戻す (to call back, to call home). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

よびかえす (to call back, to recall), よびもどす (to call back, to call home). (various references)

Manx

eamagh er ash (call off). (various references)

Pig Latin

allcay ackbay.(various references)

Portuguese

revogar (abjure, abolish, abrogate, annul, avoid, call off, cancel, countermand, deprive, determine, disaffirm, discharge from, quash, recall, remit, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke), retribuir (give back, reciprocate, remunerate, render, repay, requite, return, reward, shuttle), ligar de volta. (various references)

Romanian

suna din nou, retracta (eat one's words, recant, retract, shrink, unsay, withdraw), rechema la viaţã, rechema (call off, recall, remand, repeal, reverse), lua înapoi (withdraw). (various references)

Russian 

позвонить по телефону (в ответ на звонок). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pozivati nekoga da se vrati. (various references)

Spanish

volver a llamar (ring back), volver (abduce, come back, cut back, get back, get in, go back, hark back, put back, return, ride back, throw back, to return, turn, turn about, turn around, turn away, turn over, turn round, turning), regresar (come back, comeback, get back, get in, go back, put back, return, take back, throw back, to backtrack), llamar (appeal to, beckon, buzz, call, call in, call off, call over, call up, call upon, draw, engage, get, get on to, give a ring, have in, hit, hollo, holloa, invoke, knock, knock up, name, recall, ring, ring the bell, ring up, strike, summon, term, to call, touch off, whip in), hacer volver (lead back, recall, send back, turn back). (various references)

Swedish

ropa tillbaka (call off), ringa senare. (various references)

Turkish

caymak (back down, back down from, back out, back out of, change one's mind, cry off, deflect, depart, go back on, go without, leave, recant, retract, swallow, swerve, wangle, wangle out of), yalanlamak (belie, confute, contradict, controvert, deny, disavow, disclaim, disprove, give the lie to, impugn, kill, oppugn, refute), tekrar uğramak, geri çağırmak (recall, reclaim), dönmek (abjure, apostatize, bear, budge from, change one's mind, chop about, chop round, circle, come back, come home, deflect, face, front, get round, go back, go back on, gyrate, pivot, put about, recall, recant, reel, regress, renege, repass, return, return to, revert, revolve, rotate, round, screw, sheer from, slew, slue, spin, swallow, swerve, swim, swing, switch, switch to, tumble, turn, turn back, turn one's coat, turn over, turn round, turn up, twist, veer, veer round, wheel, wheel about, wheel around, whirl), arayan kimseyi geri aramak. (various references)

Ukranian 

покликати назад. (various references)

revoca, revocabit, revocabo, revocare, revocata, revocaveruntque, revocavit, revoces, revocet. (various references)

rapeler. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: callback.

-3 letters: aback, alack, bacca, black, cabal, calla, clack.

-4 letters: alba, baal, back, balk, ball, caca, calk, call, lack.

-5 letters: aal, aba, ala, alb, all, baa, bal, cab, kab, lab, lac.

+1 letter: callbacks.

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