Memory
['mem(ə)rɪ] or ['mɛməri]
Definition
(noun.) an electronic memory device; 'a memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached'.
(noun.) the power of retaining and recalling past experience; 'he had a good memory when he was younger'.
(noun.) the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered; 'he can do it from memory'; 'he enjoyed remembering his father'.
(noun.) something that is remembered; 'search as he would, the memory was lost'.
(noun.) the area of cognitive psychology that studies memory processes; 'he taught a graduate course on learning and memory'.
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Definition
(n.) The faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of previous thoughts, impressions, or events.
(n.) The reach and positiveness with which a person can remember; the strength and trustworthiness of one's power to reach and represent or to recall the past; as, his memory was never wrong.
(n.) The actual and distinct retention and recognition of past ideas in the mind; remembrance; as, in memory of youth; memories of foreign lands.
(n.) The time within which past events can be or are remembered; as, within the memory of man.
(n.) Something, or an aggregate of things, remembered; hence, character, conduct, etc., as preserved in remembrance, history, or tradition; posthumous fame; as, the war became only a memory.
(n.) A memorial.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Recollection, remembrance, reminiscence.[2]. Memorial, commemorative record.[3]. Fame, renown, reputation, celebrity.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Remembrance, reminiscence, perpetuation, recollection, retention, retrospect,fame
ANT:forgetfulness, oblivion
Typist: Melba
Definition
n. the power of retaining and reproducing mental or sensory impressions: a having or keeping in the mind: time within which past things can be remembered: that which is remembered: commemoration: remembrance.—n.pl. Memorabil′ia things worth remembering: noteworthy points.—adj. Mem′orable deserving to be remembered: remarkable.—adv. Mem′orably.—n. Memoran′dum something to be remembered: a note to assist the memory: (law) a brief note of some transaction: (diplomacy) a summary of the state of a question:—pl. Memoran′dums Memoran′da.—adjs. Mem′orātive pertaining to memory: aiding the memory; Memō′rial bringing to memory: contained in memory.—n. that which serves to keep in remembrance: a monument: a note to help the memory: a written statement forming the ground of a petition laid before a legislative or other body: (B.) memory.—v.t. Memō′rialise to present a memorial to: to petition by a memorial.—n. Memō′rialist one who writes signs or presents a memorial.—v.t. Mem′orise to commit to memory: (Shak.) to cause to be remembered.—adv. Memor′iter from memory: by heart.
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Examples
- The impression of it is strong on my memory. Jane Austen. Emma.
- There are some events surely in all men's lives, I replied, the memory of which they would be unwilling entirely to lose? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The old traditions of the place steal upon his memory and haunt his reveries, and then his fancy clothes all sights and sounds with the supernatural. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The effort of remembering that he wanted to speak to me was, but too evidently, the only effort that his enfeebled memory was now able to achieve. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I love Memory to-night, she said: I prize her as my best friend. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Topsy had an uncommon verbal memory, and committed with a fluency that greatly encouraged her instructress. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- It was evident that the impression left by Mrs. Fairlie's kindness was not, as I had supposed, the only strong impression on her memory. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Many of his expressions were still fresh in her memory. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- To believe is in this case to feel an immediate impression of the senses, or a repetition of that impression in the memory. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- He says: In one sense it knows more than we know ourselves, for it retains the memory of many things which we forget, even though we have said them. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- I enjoyed this scene; and yet my enjoyment was embittered both by the memory of the past, and the anticipation of the future. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Let him turn that over in his memory, and make sure of it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Mrs Boffin has a wonderful memory. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Her memory had an aristocratic bias, and was very treacherous whenever she tried to recall any circumstance connected with those below her in life. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Is his memory never any better than I have found it to-day? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- And he was so old, so steeped in heavy memories. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- My first memories are of the Island of Melnos, where I was _not_ born. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Miss Osborne, on the other hand, thought of old times and memories and could not but be touched with the poor mother's pitiful situation. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- But Archer had found himself held fast by habit, by memories, by a sudden startled shrinking from new things. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Tomorrow's sun will look down upon a dead world which through all eternity must go swinging through the heavens peopled not even by memories. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Is it not a painful thing to be old and gray and full of sad memories of our fine days? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- As it looked then, solemn, grand, and beautiful it will always remain in our memories. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I was endeavouring to gather the loose ends of many thoughts and memories which flitted elusively through my tired and overwrought brain. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Thou hast poetic memories, Pilar said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- HUXTABLE'S SIDELIGHTS ON HORACE may possibly recall my name to your memories. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- In their hearts are no memories of the past, in their brains no dreams of the future. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- As she sat waiting in the library, she could do nothing but live through again all the past scenes which had brought Lydgate into her memories. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The early dear, dear memories of that brief prime of love rushed back upon her. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- You force yourself into horrors, and put a mill-stone of beastly memories round your neck. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The memories which made this resource utterly hopeless were a new current that shook Dorothea out of her pallid immobility. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Typist: Sophie