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MEMORIZE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does memorize mean?
• MEMORIZE (verb)
The verb MEMORIZE has 1 sense:
1. commit to memory; learn by heart
Familiarity information: MEMORIZE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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... he / she / it memorizes Past simple: memorized
Past participle: memorized
-ing form: memorizing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Commit to memory; learn by heart
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Synonyms:
con; learn; memorise; memorize
Context example:
Have you memorized your lines for the play yet?
Hypernyms (to "memorize" is one way to...):
hit the books; study (learn by reading books)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "memorize"):
alternate; understudy (be an understudy or alternate for a role)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sentence example:
They won't memorize the story
Derivation:
memorization (learning so as to be able to remember verbatim)
memorizer (a person who learns by rote)
memory (the power of retaining and recalling past experience)
memory (the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered)
memory (something that is remembered)
Context examples
Repetition can be useful if you're trying to memorize a poem, master a guitar riff, or just cultivate good habits.
(Research on repetitive worm behavior has implications for understanding human diseases, National Science Foundation)
"Sharp-wave ripple abundance predicts how quickly a mouse can learn and memorize how to get through a maze, and short gamma power predicts how accurate that memory will be."
(Predicting Alzheimer's-like memory loss before it strikes, National Science Foundation)
He found that this was no light task, and at wheel or lookout he steadily went over and over his lengthening list of pronunciations and definitions, while he invariably memorized himself to sleep.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The findings show that glass eels use an internal compass to memorize the magnetic direction of tidal flows in the estuaries where they were juveniles, which may help them orient in moving water during migration.
(Study uncovers magnetic memory of European glass eels, National Science Foundation)
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