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memorize

ˈmɛmərˌaɪz
WordNet
Folder with 18 separate design drawings reproduced in Johan Huizinga's 'Color of memorable scenes from patriotic histories' from 1950. Folder covered with red linen on the outside, with flaps and binding ribbons (largely disappeared). The title on the back.
Folder with 18 separate design drawings reproduced in Johan Huizinga's 'Color of memorable scenes from patriotic histories' from 1950. Folder covered with red linen on the outside, with flaps and binding ribbons (largely disappeared). The title on the back.
  1. (v) memorize
    commit to memory; learn by heart "Have you memorized your lines for the play yet?"
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Interesting fact
A recent Gallup survey showed that in the United States 8 percent of kissers kept their eyes open, but more than 20 percent confessed to an occasional peek. Forty-one percent said they experienced their first serious smooch when they were age thirteen, fourteen, or fifteen; 36 percent between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one. The most memorable kiss in a motion picture was in "Gone With The Wind" according to 25 percent of those polled.
  1. Memorize
    To cause to be remembered ; hence, to record. "They neglect to memorize their conquest.", "They meant to . . . memorize another Golgotha."
  2. Memorize
    To commit to memory; to learn by heart.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. memorize
    To cause to be remembered; make memorable; perpetuate the memory of, as by writing or inscription.
  2. memorize
    To keep in memory; hold in lasting remembrance; have always in mind.
  3. memorize
    To commit to memory; learn by heart.
Quotations
Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read.
Leo Burnett
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Aleister Crowley
I was asked to memorize what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.
Aleister Crowley
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary See Memory

Usage in the news

Earle Bruce gets a memorable ride off the Michigan Stadium turf. cleveland.com

The Hills' 20 Most Memorable Moments. usmagazine.com

Local news offers workmanlike coverage for workmanlike speeches—and one memorable metaphor. cjr.org

Memorization can nurture spiritual growth. americamagazine.org

Koran By Heart A new documentary about Cairo's annual religious-text memorization contest for kids. nola.com

His 10 most memorable characters. csmonitor.com

Luke Donald, Adam Scott, Jason Day and Charl Schwartzel recount their memorable showdown on the back nine at the 2011 Masters. espn.go.com

Dawn Sandomeno and Elizabeth Mascali, co-owners of Party Blueprints and authors of "Plan To Party," suggest these ways to make your Super Bowl party memorable. blog.timesunion.com

Bonner Springs High School has one of the area's most home run-friendly baseball fields, but Monday ranks among the most memorable long-ball festivals in some time. desotoexplorer.com

Olympia Dukakis Strong, Memorable As Prospera In 'The Tempest'. courant.com

THE memorably uncomfortable summer of 1988 has left many Americans with a suspicion that nature is at last getting even for mankind's wanton pollution of the atmosphere. nytimes.com

Getting your first gobbler always memorable. altoonamirror.com

Anyone who remembers the 1977 Wes Craven film The Hills Have Eyes, which was and remains a piece of Milwaukee-beer shit, remembers it because: a) they had a memorable fuck-or-puke night at the aging neighborhood drive-in. houstonpress.com

The National Book Award winner for fiction is filled with memorable characters who exist on the fringe, making up a whole world at a West Virginia racetrack. latimes.com

Being able to memorize is a key learning tool. thenewsenterprise.com

Usage in scientific papers

So let me express perdurantism’s apparent problem by using some memorably ugly labels, as follows.
On the Persistence of Homogeneous Matter

In order to have a proper line memorization and to avoid a false encoding, a buffer is inserted between the delay line and the memorization line. Therefore, a sufficient high slew rate signal is presented at the input of the latch and thus it decreases the probability to observe a metastable cell.
Development of a TDC to equip a Liquid Xenon PET prototype

The clock tree distributed to the memorization cells has to be perfectly balanced.
Development of a TDC to equip a Liquid Xenon PET prototype

If a close look is taken at the state of an eight elements delay line (Fig. 9), we can see that the position number is determined by the number of the last bit at 1 before the 1 to 0 change in the memorized line state.
Development of a TDC to equip a Liquid Xenon PET prototype

But they could perform these tasks immediately after memorizing except for recalling and retracing a simple new route.
Human Information Processing with the Personal Memex

Usage in literature

This historic is notable, but yet the former (in mine opinion) is more memorable. "Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 1"

During the memorable siege that ended in the fall of Baza, Peter Martyr played his dual role of soldier and historian. "De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2)" by Trans. by Francis Augustus MacNutt

So strongly is every thing I saw on this memorable day imprinted on my memory, that it appears to me only as yesterday. "A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. IV." by Robert Kerr

He was beginning that slow memorable journey south that ended finally at the cross. "Quiet Talks on Service" by S. D. Gordon

A few cents saved was a memorable event in their lives. "Analyzing Character" by Katherine M. H. Blackford and Arthur Newcomb

Now followed a memorable event. "The World's Greatest Books, Vol XI." by Edited by Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton

We entered and beheld a memorable picture. "Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories" by Edited by Julian Hawthorne

Many methods of memorizing have been used by both children and adults. "How to Teach" by George Drayton Strayer and Naomi Norsworthy

The first evidence of God's touch in the re-making of man on that memorable Pentecost day was upon his tongue. "Quiet Talks about Jesus" by S. D. Gordon

While these events were passing, Almagro was engaged upon a memorable expedition to Chili. "The World's Greatest Books, Vol XII." by Arthur Mee

Usage in poetry
But, from that memorable day,
Have we not loved each other?
And have we not loved thee?—O say,
Dear mother of our mother!
"Lines on The Death of Mrs. F--- II---" by John Pierpont Author object (391)
Shall I woo the one or other?
Both attract me—more's the pity!
Pretty is the widowed mother,
And the daughter, too, is pretty.
"Heine's "Widow Or Daughter?"" by Eugene Field Author object (196)
Here oft the little fair retir'd;
Here lov'd from gayer scenes withdrawn,
To breathe, what harmony inspir'd--
A dirge to memorize the fawn!
"The Stag" by William Hayley Author object (706)
A woman's artless hand thou didst employ,
Jabin's head-captain Sisera, to destroy.
The stars themselves, arrang'd in just array,
For Israel fought, that memorable day!
"The Soldier's Prayer" by Rees Prichard
Coming by night, furtively, one by one
They infiltrate according to the Plan,
Their orders memorized and their disguise
Impenetrable. With the rising sun
Our citizens welcome them. Nobody can
Think that such charming creatures might be spies.
"The Invaders" by A D Hope Author object (1)