memory
/'meməri/
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Definition
- Noun:
- The faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information: This is the mental capacity to retain and recall facts, events, or skills.
- Something remembered from the past; a recollection: This refers to a specific instance or piece of past experience that is remembered.
- The part of a computer in which data or program instructions can be stored for retrieval: This is the electronic component used for data storage.
Examples of Usage
- Noun:
- She has an excellent memory for names and faces. (This demonstrates the faculty of retaining information.)
- One of my fondest childhood memories is of baking with my grandmother. (This refers to a specific recollection.)
- The computer's memory was upgraded to 16 gigabytes. (This refers to the electronic storage component.)
Advanced Usage
- "In living memory": Within the time that anyone can remember.
- It was the coldest winter in living memory.
- "Commit something to memory": To make a conscious effort to memorize something.
- He committed the poem to memory.
- "If my memory serves me (correctly/right)": Used to express that you believe you are remembering accurately.
- If my memory serves me right, the meeting is on Tuesday.
Variants and Related Words
- Memorize (verb): To commit something to memory.
- I need to memorize this speech.
- Memorial (noun): Something, especially a structure, established to remind people of a person or event.
- They built a war memorial.
- Memorable (adjective): Worth remembering or easily remembered.
- It was a memorable vacation.
Synonyms
- Recollection: The action or faculty of remembering something.
- Remembrance: The act of remembering or a memory.
- Recall: The ability to bring a fact, event, or situation back into one's mind.
Related Phrases (Phrasal Verbs)
- "Jog someone's memory": To cause someone to remember something.
- Maybe this photograph will jog your memory.
- "Slip someone's mind/memory": To be forgotten by someone.
- I'm sorry I missed the appointment; it completely slipped my memory.
Related Idioms
- "A trip/walk down memory lane": An occasion when people remember or talk about things that happened in the past.
- Looking at these old photos is a real walk down memory lane.
- "From memory": Recalling without the aid of notes or references.
- He recited the entire passage from memory.
Noun
- the area of cognitive psychology that studies memory processes
- he taught a graduate course on learning and memory
- an electronic memory device
- a memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached
- the power of retaining and recalling past experience
- he had a good memory when he was younger
- the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered
- he can do it from memory
- he enjoyed remembering his father
- something that is remembered
- search as he would, the memory was lost