different between memorize vs memory

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

Alternative forms

• memorie (archaic)

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman memorie, Old French memoire etc., from Latin memoria (“the faculty of remembering, remembrance, memory, a historical account”), from memor (“mindful, remembering”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mer- (to remember), related to Ancient Greek ????? (mn?m?, “memory”) ???????? (mérmeros, “anxious”), ??????? (mérimna, “care, thought”), Old English mimor (“mindful, remembering”). More at mimmer. Doublet of memoir and memoria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?m(?)?i/
• (pin–pen merger) IPA^(key): /?m?m(?)?i/
• Hyphenation: mem?o?ry, mem?ory

Noun

memory (countable and uncountable, plural memories)

1. (uncountable) The ability of the brain to record information or impressions with the facility of recalling them later at will.

   Synonym: recall

2. A record of a thing or an event stored and available for later use by the organism.

   Synonyms: recall, recollection

3. (computing) The part of a computer that stores variable executable code or data (RAM) or unalterable executable code or default data (ROM).

   Synonym: (dated) core
4. The time within which past events can be or are remembered.

5. (attributive, of a material) Which returns to its original shape when heated

6. (obsolete) A memorial.
7. (zoology, collective, rare) A term of venery for a social group of elephants, normally called a herd.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

• in-memory

Related terms

Translations

See also

• memory on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• remember
• mnemonics