different between memorize vs ideate

English

Alternative forms

• (UK) memorise

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?m.???a??z/
• Hyphenation: mem?or?ize

Verb

memorize (third-person singular simple present memorizes, present participle memorizing, simple past and past participle memorized)

1. To fully learn so as to have entirely available to the memory; to learn by heart, commit to memory.
   • 2009, A Practical Study of Argument ?ISBN, page 123:

     Many years ago there was a rumor that a basketball star (Jerry Lucas of the New York Knicks) had memorized the entire Manhattan phone book.

Derived terms

• memorization

Translations

Portuguese

Verb

memorize

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of memorizar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of memorizar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of memorizar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of memorizar

English

Etymology 1

From idea +? -ate

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?a?die?t/

Verb

ideate (third-person singular simple present ideates, present participle ideating, simple past and past participle ideated)

1. To apprehend in thought so as to fix and hold in the mind; to memorize.
2. To generate an idea.

Translations

Derived terms

Adjective

ideate (not comparable)

1. Produced by an idea.

Etymology 2

Late Latin ideatum. See idea.

Alternative forms

• ideat

Noun

ideate (plural ideates)

1. (metaphysics) The actual existence supposed to correspond with an idea; the correlate in real existence to the idea as a thought or existence.

Further reading

• ideate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• ideate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Italian

Verb

ideate

1. inflection of ideare:
   1. second-person plural indicative present
   2. second-person plural imperative