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- verb UK Alternative form of
memorize ..
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb commit to memory; learn by heart
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Examples
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This exercise tests your ability to memorise sequences of events.
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The change will mean that learner drivers will not be able to study and memorise answers from pre-published official study material.
Driving theory test changes signal end of learning answers by heart 2012
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Although many people imagine that actors memorise their lines using rote rehearsal, research conducted by the psychologist Helga Noice suggests that this is not always the case.
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I have to go back to see what else he can memorise!
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And I can feel memory stirring – soon I will have regained the state of being able to memorise a row before I start it.
Jean's Knitting Jean 2009
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Bach's Goldberg Variations is a good example of something especially difficult to memorise, because it's contrapuntal and highly complex, but also very virtuosic, and it lasts an hour.
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We even memorise this for the other players so we know where everyone else will be at any given time.
Pundits like Andy Gray? Why the players couldn't care less 2011
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We memorise every single set piece, where we have to stand, run and end up.
Pundits like Andy Gray? Why the players couldn't care less 2011
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People would memorise passages from it, then regurgitate them at drinks parties, laughing. like blocked drains as they did.
October Books 19) Doctor Who - Slipback nwhyte 2009
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Working on the border, it was easy to memorise each row before starting it, although no two rows are the same and the repeat is 78 stitches or so.
Jean's Knitting Jean 2009
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