different between memorize vs perseverance

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

• perseveraunce (archaic)

Etymology

From Old French perseverance, from Latin perseverantia

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??s??v????ns/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p?s??v???ns/
• Rhymes: -????ns
• Hyphenation: per?se?ve?rance

Noun

perseverance (usually uncountable, plural perseverances)

1. Continuing in a course of action without regard to discouragement, opposition or previous failure.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:perseverance

   • 2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage

     It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.

Related terms

• persevere
• perseverance of the saints
• perseverant

Translations

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French perseverance

Noun

perseverance f (uncountable)

1. perseverance