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# mnemonic

«mnemonic» in Mova's school dictionary: **a trick that helps you remember something, like a rhyme…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a mnemonic, mnemonics); adjective (mnemonic)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A mnemonic is a trick that helps you remember something, like a rhyme, a saying or a word made from first letters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mnemonic/#m1)

2) Mnemonic means helping the memory. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mnemonic/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In school mnemonics are everywhere: «Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain» for rainbow colours (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet), «Never Eat Shredded Wheat» for compass points, «BIDMAS/PEMDAS» for order of operations in maths, «Big Elephants Can Always Understand Small Elephants» to spell «because». Phrases: «a mnemonic for», «use a mnemonic».

### examples

- «Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain» is a mnemonic for the rainbow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mnemonic/#x1)
- BIDMAS is a mnemonic for the order of operations. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mnemonic/#x2)
- «Never Eat Shredded Wheat» helps you remember North, East, South, West. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mnemonic/#x3)
- I made up a mnemonic to remember the planets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mnemonic/#x4)
- «Thirty days hath September» is a mnemonic rhyme. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mnemonic/#x5)
- A mnemonic helped me spell «necessary»: one collar, two sleeves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mnemonic/#x6)

### note

The first «m» is silent: said «nih-MON-ik». Countable. From Greek «mnēmē» (memory). In maths: BIDMAS (UK), BODMAS, PEMDAS (US) all mean brackets/parentheses first, then powers, then × and ÷ left to right, then + and − left to right.

### In the corpora

- [A mnemonic is a memory trick; it helps with a few very hard words, and rules help with most others.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/15-how-to-learn-spellings-that-stick/20/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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