memory

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• WordNet 3.6
  • n memory an electronic memory device "a memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached"
  • n memory the power of retaining and recalling past experience "he had a good memory when he was younger"
  • n memory the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered "he can do it from memory","he enjoyed remembering his father"
  • n memory something that is remembered "search as he would, the memory was lost"
  • n memory the area of cognitive psychology that studies memory processes "he taught a graduate course on learning and memory"
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THE VERY SHORT MEMORY of Mr. JOSEPH SCORER

The Land of Memory

HE CALLS THIS 'THE GARDEN OF MEMORIES,' BUT HE NEARLY FORGOT _ME_

THE BRIDGE ACROSS LANSDOWNE RAVINE, CONNECTING MEMORIAL AND HORTICULTURAL HALLS

MEMORIAL HALL, WITH EXTENSION

• Interesting fact: Seniors who drink a cup of coffee before a memory test score higher than those who drink a cup of decaffeinated coffee
• • Memory A memorial. "These weeds are memories of those worser hours."
  • Memory 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 . "The memory of the just is blessed.""That ever-living man of memory , Henry the Fifth.""The Nonconformists . . . have, as a body, always venerated her [Elizabeth's memory ."
  • Memory The actual and distinct retention and recognition of past ideas in the mind; remembrance; as, in memory of youth; memories of foreign lands.
  • Memory The faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of previous thoughts, impressions, or events. "Memory is the purveyor of reason."
  • Memory 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.
  • Memory The time within which past events can be or are remembered; as, within the memory of man. "And what, before thy memory , was done
    From the begining."
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• Interesting fact: All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill
• • n memory The mental capacity of retaining unconscious traces of conscious impressions or states, and of recalling these traces to consciousness with the attendant perception that they (or their objects) have a certain relation to the past; in a narrower sense, the power of such retention alone, the power or act of recalling being termed recollection. The application of the term is often extended, with more or less of figurativeness, to analogous physical processes.
  • n memory The fact of retaining such mental impressions; remembrance; mental hold on the past; retrospect; recollection.
  • n memory Length of time included in the conscious experience or observation of an individual, a community, or any succession of persons; the period of time during which the acquisition of knowledge is possible.
  • n memory The state of being remembered; continued presence in the minds or thoughts of men; retained or perpetuated knowledge; posterior note or reputation: as, to celebrate the memory of a great event.
  • n memory That which is remembered; anything fixed in or recalled to the mind; a mental impression; a reminiscence: as, pleasant memories of travel.
  • n memory That which brings to mind; a memento or memorial; a remembrancer.
  • n memory Commemoration; perpetuation of the knowledge of anything; a recalling to mind: as, a monument erected in memory of a person.
  • n memory An act or ceremony of remembrance; a service for the dead: same as commemoration, 2 .
  • n memory = Syn. 1-4. Memory, Recollection, Remembrance, Reminiscence. Memory is the general word for the faculty or capacity itself; recollection and remembrance are different kinds of exercise of the faculty; reminiscence, also, is used for the exercise of the faculty, but less commonly, and then it stands for the least energetic use of it, the matter seeming rather to be suggested to the mind. The correctness of the use of memory for that which is remembered has been disputed. The others are freely used for that which is remembered. In either sense, recollection implies more effort, more detail, and more union of objects in wholes, than remembrance. Reminiscence is used chiefly of past events, rarely of thoughts, words, or scenes, while recollection is peculiarly appropriate for the act of recalling mental operations. See remember.
  • n memory Memory as mediated by kinesthetic images in the narrower sense.
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• Interesting fact: A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds
• • n Memory mem′o-ri 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 Memory 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:
  • n Memory (B.) memory
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• Alexander Smith

  

  “A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.”
• Jonathan Swift

  

  “Observation is an old man's memory.”
• Source Unknown

  

  “So live that your memories will be part of your happiness.”
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  “People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.”
• Tennessee Williams

  

  “In memory everything seems to happen to music.”
• Agesilaus II

  

  “If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can preserve my memory.”

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