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# memory

«memory» in Mova's school dictionary: **the ability of your brain to keep and remember things** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a memory, memories; memory — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Memory is the ability of your brain to keep and remember things. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/memory/#m1)

2) A memory is something you remember from the past. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/memory/#m2)

3) A computer's memory is the part where it stores information. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/memory/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In school, memory helps you learn times tables, spellings and facts; tricks like rhymes and repeating help memory. In science the brain stores memories, and sleep helps memory. In computing, memory is measured in bytes (megabytes, gigabytes). In everyday life people share happy memories of holidays and grandparents, and «in memory of» someone honours a person who died. Phrases: «from memory» (without looking), «a good memory», «memory lane».

### examples

- I have a good memory for faces. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/memory/#x1)
- One of my best memories is our trip to the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/memory/#x2)
- Say the poem from memory. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/memory/#x3)
- The phone's memory is full. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/memory/#x4)
- Sleep helps your memory work better. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/memory/#x5)
- The bench was put there in memory of our old teacher. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/memory/#x6)
- My earliest memory is of my baby sister. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/memory/#x7)
- Elephants are said to have great memories. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/memory/#x8)
- The memory of a good deed lives. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/memory/#x9)

### note

Plural «memories» (y → ies). Uncountable for the ability (memory), countable for things remembered (a memory). «Memorise / memorize» = learn by heart (British -ise, American -ize). «Memorial» is a monument. Myth: goldfish have only a three-second memory — not true, they can remember for months.

### In the corpora

- [They share memories, sing or pray, and then the body is buried or cremated.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/25-funerals-and-remembering/1/)
- [Many bots forget everything when you start a new chat, unless a memory feature is switched on.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/3-sounding-right-and-being-right/11/)
- [Each time you practise something, the connections between the nerve cells involved get stronger, so the memory gets easier to find.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/68-the-brain-and-nerves/14/)
- [Elephants have excellent memories: old female leaders remember distant water in droughts and recognise friends after many years.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/149-myth-check-are-elephants-scared-of-mice/12/)
- [The three-second memory is a myth; experiments show goldfish can remember things for weeks and even months.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/152-goldfish-memory/4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «memory» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/memory/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.