Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To commit to memory; learn by heart.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To cause to be remembered; make memorable; perpetuate the memory of, as by writing or inscription.
- To keep in memory; hold in lasting remembrance; have always in mind.
- To commit to memory; learn by heart.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To cause to be remembered ; hence, to record.
- transitive verb To commit to memory; to learn by heart.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb to
learn by heart ,commit to memory
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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I have no trouble remembering wordless music, up to and including whole symphonies, but the only kind of poetry I can memorize is that with a melody.
Stew deliasherman 2010
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Yes, learning and remember is part of grad school, but grad school, or even starting with first-year college, the purpose is to learn, and not learn to memorize, which is, in reality, what a lot of exams do, even if it's an essay-type essay (vs. multiple choice).
Wired Campus 2010
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Classes that "memorize" trig formulas in November can't remember a thing about them in May.
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I have been thinking that some of my colleagues disagree, but this may be only because we've meant different things by the word 'memorize'.
Archive 2007-10-01 Rosie Redfield 2007
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One of us made the important point that the word 'memorize' may mean different things to different people, and different things in different contexts, which slowly got me thinking about how we can be more clear.
Archive 2007-10-01 Rosie Redfield 2007
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One of us made the important point that the word 'memorize' may mean different things to different people, and different things in different contexts, which slowly got me thinking about how we can be more clear.
What does 'memorize' mean? Rosie Redfield 2007
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I have been thinking that some of my colleagues disagree, but this may be only because we've meant different things by the word 'memorize'.
What does 'memorize' mean? Rosie Redfield 2007
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Computers and data storage systems 'memorize', manipulate, and index, data that is too mundane and numerous for humans.
Ethnicity, spelling, and "rote" memorization. Ann Althouse 2005
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Yet of all the kids I’ve surveyed on this, only 8 percent have parents who take God at his word and memorize Scripture together consistently as a family.
What Kids Wish Parents Knew about Parenting JOE WHITE 2003
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So I had to kind of memorize the clips and the time them based on memory for the most part.
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