memory
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (5)memories
- something that is remembered“search as he would, the memory was lost”Type of representation, mental representationKinds reminiscence, confabulation, recollection, engram, screen memory
- the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered“he can do it from memory”“he enjoyed remembering his father”Synonyms: rememberingType of basic cognitive processKinds recognition, association, recall, long-term memory, retrieval, musical memory, working memory, retrospection, short-term memory
- the power of retaining and recalling past experience“he had a good memory when he was younger”Synonyms: retentionretentivenessretentivityType of faculty, mental facultyKinds remembrance, recollection
- an electronic memory device“a memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached”Synonyms: computer memorystoragecomputer storagestorememory boardType of memory device, hardwareKinds real storage, non-volatile storage, virtual memory, read-only memory, local memory, scratchpad, volatile storagePart of computer, computing machineParts register
- the area of cognitive psychology that studies memory processes“he taught a graduate course on learning and memory”Type of cognitive psychology
a state or condition markedly different from the norm
Translations
Noun ability to recall
- Spanish
- memoria
- French
- mémoire
- German
- Gedächtnis
- Italian
- memoria
- Portuguese
- memória
- Turkish
- bellek
- Russian
- па́мять pámjatʹ
- Arabic
- ذَاكِرَة ḏākira
- Chinese
- 记忆 jìyì
- Japanese
- 記憶 kioku
31 more languages
- Dutch
- geheugen
- Polish
- pamięć
- Swedish
- minne
- Greek
- μνήμη mními
- Korean
- 기억 gieok
- Indonesian
- ingatan
- Vietnamese
- trí nhớ
- Hungarian
- emlékezet
- Portuguese (PT)
- memória
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 記憶 jìyì
- Catalan
- memòria
- Czech
- paměť
- Danish
- hukommelse
- Esperanto
- memoro
- Estonian
- mälu
- Finnish
- muisti
- Georgian
- მეხსიერება mexsiereba
- Hebrew
- זיכרון zikarón
- Icelandic
- minni
- Kurdish
- bîr
- Latvian
- atmiņa
- Lithuanian
- atmintis
- Norwegian
- hukommelse
- Romanian
- memorie
- Scottish Gaelic
- cuimhne
- Serbo-Croatian
- memorija
- Slovak
- pamäť
- Slovenian
- spomin
- Swahili
- kumbukumbu
- Welsh
- cof
- Yiddish
- זכּרון zikorn
Noun stored record
- Spanish
- recuerdo
- French
- souvenir
- German
- Erinnerung
- Italian
- ricordo
- Portuguese
- lembrança
- Turkish
- anı
- Russian
- воспомина́ние vospominánije
- Arabic
- ذِكْرَى ḏikrā
- Chinese
- 记忆 jìyì
- Japanese
- 記憶 kioku
23 more languages
- Dutch
- herinnering
- Polish
- wspomnienie
- Swedish
- minne
- Greek
- ανάμνηση anámnisi
- Korean
- 추억 chueok
- Vietnamese
- kí ức
- Hungarian
- emlék
- Portuguese (PT)
- lembrança
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 記憶 jìyì
- Albanian
- kujtim
- Catalan
- record
- Czech
- vzpomínka
- Esperanto
- memoro
- Finnish
- muisto
- Kurdish
- bîr
- Latvian
- atmiņa
- Romanian
- amintire
- Scottish Gaelic
- cuimhne
- Slovak
- spomienka
- Slovenian
- spomin
- Swahili
- kumbukumbu
- Welsh
- atgof
- Yiddish
- אָנדענק ondenk
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OE. memorie, OF. memoire, memorie, F. mémoire, L. memoria, fr. memor mindful; cf. mora delay. Cf. Demur, Martyr, Memoir, Remember.
1. The faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of previous thoughts, impressions, or events.
Memory is the purveyor of reason.— Rambler, The
2. The reach and positiveness with which a person can remember; the strength and trustworthiness of one's power to reach and represent or to recall the past; as, his memory was never wrong.
3. The actual and distinct retention and recognition of past ideas in the mind; remembrance; as, in memory of youth; memories of foreign lands.
4. The time within which past events can be or are remembered; as, within the memory of man.
And what, before thy memory, was done From the begining.— John Milton
5. Something, or an aggregate of things, remembered; hence, character, conduct, etc., as preserved in remembrance, history, or tradition; posthumous fame; as, the war became only a memory.
The memory of the just is blessed.— Prov. x. 7.
That ever-living man of memory, Henry the Fifth.— William Shakespeare
The Nonconformists... have, as a body, always venerated her [Elizabeth's] memory.— Thomas Babington Macaulay
6. A memorial. obsolete
These weeds are memories of those worser hours.— William Shakespeare
Synonyms: Memory, Remembrance, Recollection, Reminiscence. Memory is the generic term, denoting the power by which we reproduce past impressions. Remembrance is an exercise of that power when things occur spontaneously to our thoughts. In recollection we make a distinct effort to collect again, or call back, what we know has been formerly in the mind. Reminiscence is intermediate between remembrance and recollection, being a conscious process of recalling past occurrences, but without that full and varied reference to particular things which characterizes recollection. “When an idea again recurs without the operation of the like object on the external sensory, it is remembrance; if it be sought after by the mind, and with pain and endeavor found, and brought again into view, it is recollection.” John Locke
To draw to memory, to put on record; to record. obsolete Chaucer. Gower.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
<storage> These days, usually used synonymously with Random Access Memory or Read-Only Memory, but in the general sense it can be any device that can hold data in machine-readable format.
(1996-05-25)