Word Finder - memory

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The ability of the brain to record information or impressions with the facility of recalling them later at will.

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Memory is a facility common to all animals.

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A record of a thing or an event stored and available for later use by the organism.

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I have no memory of that event.

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The part of a computer that stores variable executable code or data (RAM) or unalterable executable code or default data (ROM).

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This data passes from the CPU to the memory.

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The time within which past events can be or are remembered.

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in recent memory; in living memory

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(of a material) which returns to its original shape when heated

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Memory metal; memory plastic.

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A memorial.

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(collective) A term of venery for a social group of elephants, normally called a herd.

The memory brought goose bumps to her arms.

The memory gave her resolution.

The memory of it is a joy forever.

It will be the collective memory and experience of the planet.

But as we do them yet again and capture them, we finally can begin to develop a planet-wide memory system.

There's no chance some of the memory is still there?

Her memory of people is remarkable.

It was the second strongest memory in human-Deidre's mind, the day when both of their lives changed.

A young man cowers and cries, perhaps in memory long after his sister is gone.

She was staring at the cake, trying to find some fond memory to shove aside the pictures in her mind when Sarah walked into the room.

I'm on the road once more with only my memory of sweet little Marcia for company.

Yet he couldn't shake the memory of her body against his, the way she'd looked at him last night.

An elderly dame, too, dwells in my neighborhood, invisible to most persons, in whose odorous herb garden I love to stroll sometimes, gathering simples and listening to her fables; for she has a genius of unequalled fertility, and her memory runs back farther than mythology, and she can tell me the original of every fable, and on what fact every one is founded, for the incidents occurred when she was young.

This memory carried him sadly and sweetly back to those painful feelings of which he had not thought lately, but which still found place in his soul.

When dealing with the affairs and papers of his dead wife, her memory aroused in him no feeling but pity that she had not known the bliss he now knew.

A monument was erected to his memory in 1825, Lafayette laying the corner-stone.

Everything I found in books that pleased me I retained in my memory, consciously or unconsciously, and adapted it.

She cannot know in detail how she was taught, and her memory of her childhood is in some cases an idealized memory of what she has learned later from her teacher and others.

The farther I go back in memory, or what is the same thing the farther I go forward in my judgment, the more doubtful becomes my belief in the freedom of my action.

She searched her memory for where she might've dumped the keys last night.

Experiments made by a person who possesses a good memory seem to show that the thing is very possible, especially if Darnley revised Crawford's notes.

A memorial was erected to his memory at Komarom in 1896.

At Alexandria the noble Hypatia taught, to whose memory her impassioned disciple Synesius, afterwards a bishop, reared a splendid monument.

His mental qualities were - a quick analytic perception, strong logical powers, a tenacious memory, a liberal estimate and tolerance of the opinions of others, ready intuition of human nature; and perhaps his most valuable faculty was rare ability to divest himself of all feeling or passion in weighing motives of persons or problems of state.

It may be questioned whether it was due to a wave of enthusiasm amongst the priests and people, leading them to rededicate the monuments in the name of their deliverer, or a somewhat insane desire of the king to perpetuate his own memory in a singularly unfortunate manner.

In many subjects, the written examinations test memory rather than capacity.

But it is important to consider it by itself, as showing us what impress the Master had made on the memory of one disciple who had been almost constantly by His side.

In a large public park there is a bronze monument in memory of the soldiers of Peru who died in the Civil War.

So I saw, in real dollars, the cost of computer memory fall to one one-millionth of what it was thirty years ago.

My memory is a big part of who I am and I have no desire to trade any of it away.

I knew Mr. Henry Drummond, and the memory of his strong, warm hand-clasp is like a benediction.

Their language is the memory of the language they hear spoken in their homes.

Those dreadful moments he had lived through at the executions had as it were forever washed away from his imagination and memory the agitating thoughts and feelings that had formerly seemed so important.

If it did it was only as a pleasant memory of the distant past.

The ultra sound photo brought back a vivid memory of Alex watching the screen as the baby moved in her womb.

For the first time the memory of how he reacted when she told him she was pregnant wasn't a painful one.

That he was an unlucky jerk and his loss of memory was probably a good thing in the long pull?

Better he should think it was a sad memory than to think she was afraid of ghosts.

Carlyle's memory recalled the Porteous Riots of 1736, and less remotely his friendship with Adam Smith, David Hume, and John Home, the dramatist, for witnessing the performance of whose tragedy Douglas He Was Censured In 1757.

If Crawford "refreshed his memory by the letter," he exposed himself, and the entire case, by copying whole passages, often with few verbal changes.

His memory is still cherished in the district, for he conferred on it the title of Gefiirstete Grafschaft, spent much time in it, and erected in the chief church of Innsbruck a sumptuous monument as his tomb.

These are the fainter images produced by repeated sensations, the " ideas " resulting from previous " impressions "- sensations at second-hand as it were, which are stored up in memory, and which a general name serves to recall.

None the less his writings were committed to memory and remained the textbooks of Epicureanism to the last.

Sloane's memory survives more by his judicious investments than by anything that he contributed to the subject matter of natural science or even of his own profession.

Next came the strange scene at Canossa which burned itself into the memory of Europe.

In his public speeches the emperor repeatedly expressed his reverence for am the memory of his grandfather, and his determination to continue his policy; but he also repudiated the attempt of the extreme Conservatives to identify him with their party.

It is so called in memory of Idris Gawr, celebrated in the Triads as one of the three "Gwyn Serenyddion," or "Happy Astronomers," of Wales, who is traditionally supposed to have made his observations on this peak.

Patmore is one of the few Victorian poets of whom it may confidently be predicted that the memory of his greater achievements will outlive all consideration of occasional lapses from taste and dignity.

Layamon, who in his translation of Wace treats his original much as Wace treated Geoffrey, says that there was a tradition that she had drowned herself, and that her memory and that of Mordred were hateful in every land, so that none would offer prayer for their souls.

The memory of Gandersheim will long be preserved by its literary memorials.