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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



... chair brought out so as to watch him working, and then her foot-stove, for her feet were freezing. She then began to chat with the painter, on all the recent births, deaths and marriages of which she had not heard, thus adding to the genealogical tree which she carried in her memory. ...
— Une Vie, A Piece of String and Other Stories • Guy de Maupassant
... in the chapel of the palace. After the celebration of the rite, the dauphin was carried into the chamber of his dying father, and seated upon the bed by his side. The poor king, dying in the prime of life, was oppressed with the profoundest melancholy. There was nothing in the memory of the past to give him pleasure; nothing in the future to inspire him with well-grounded hope. Turning to the little prince, who had just been christened with the ...
— Louis XIV., Makers of History Series • John S. C. Abbott
... is the principle involved. I have observed that you do not endeavour systematically to impress my requests on your mind. If you were to take due note of them at the time they are made, and say them aloud two or three times to yourself, they would not escape your memory. Forgetfulness is never an excuse in business, and I do not see why it should be at home.' 'O Charles!' I cried, 'do not talk about principles in such a trifle; I simply forgot. I should be more likely to forget my cloak than your coat.' He did not answer me, but opened a couple of letters, ...
— More Pages from a Journal • Mark Rutherford
... nature of the disease itself was such, and the infection was received so imperceptibly, that the most exact caution could not secure us while in the place. But I must be allowed to believe—and I have so many examples fresh in my memory to convince me of it, that I think none can resist their evidence—I say, I must be allowed to believe that no one in this whole nation ever received the sickness or infection but who received it in the ordinary way of infection from somebody, or the clothes or touch or stench of somebody ...
— A Journal of the Plague Year • Daniel Defoe
... it might take you to count five, Josiah stood there irresolute, Mary's fingers pulling him one way and the memory of poor Martha's ...
— Mary Minds Her Business • George Weston


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