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Memory   /mˈɛməri/   Listen
Memory

noun
(pl. memories)
1.
Something that is remembered.
2.
The cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered.  Synonym: remembering.  "He enjoyed remembering his father"
3.
The power of retaining and recalling past experience.  Synonyms: retention, retentiveness, retentivity.
4.
An electronic memory device.  Synonyms: computer memory, computer storage, memory board, storage, store.
5.
The area of cognitive psychology that studies memory processes.



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"Memory" Quotes from Famous Books



... let one's memory begin to fetch passages from Byron striking the same note as that passage from Llywarch Hen, and she will not soon stop. And all Byron's heroes, not so much in collision with outward things, as breaking on some rock of revolt and misery ...
— Celtic Literature • Matthew Arnold
... memory dear: he was off like a lamplighter. An alcoholic apple-woman picked me up and escorted me back to the hospital. It must have been a touching spectacle," he added, with a dry ...
— The Red Thumb Mark • R. Austin Freeman
... shadow dims your joyance sweet, No baffled hope or memory darkly clad; You lay your whiteness at the Lord's dear feet, And are ...
— Verses • Susan Coolidge
... fight, his tall figure towering above the rest, and his soldier's uniform buttoned over a dark tress of hair, and a face like Bell Cameron's, Lieutenant Bob had taken two or three furloughs, but the one which had left the sweetest, pleasantest memory in his heart was that of the autumn before, when the crimson leaves of the maple and the golden tints of the beech were burning themselves out on the hills of Silverton, where his furlough was mostly passed, and where, with Bell Cameron, he scoured the length and breadth of Uncle Ephraim's ...
— Family Pride - Or, Purified by Suffering • Mary J. Holmes
... Centuries. Narrowly confined to the representation of conventional types of saints, these arts did not acquire either personality or expression for two centuries. It was not until the Eighteenth Century that they began to raise statues to the memory of Russia's great men: one of the first monuments was consecrated, as was indeed just, to Peter the Great, Russia's great reformer; in his lifetime, Count Bartolomeo Rastrelli the sculptor, father of ...
— Russia - As Seen and Described by Famous Writers • Various


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