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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
memorize
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
memorize a poem (=learn it )
▪ The children had to memorize a poem and recite it in front of the whole class.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Don't write down your PIN number, memorize it.
▪ Don't write your password down, memorize it.
▪ He was only four when he memorized Martin Luther King's 'I have a dream' speech.
▪ I recited the poem she had asked me to memorize.
▪ There's no way I can memorize all these formulas before the test.
▪ Wesley would pray for hours and memorize large sections of the Bible.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But Grody is quick to address the concerns of those who think swing dancing is about memorizing routines.
▪ First you read and memorize a list of ten.
▪ Glance at the sentences and memorize the next few phrases and look at the audience while you are speaking.
▪ I find myself attempting to memorize the Masai words as she did.
▪ I study the flowers, try to memorize them.
▪ Mungo set off, taking care to avoid the loose floorboards which he had already tried to memorize.
▪ They listen to stories, memorize nursery rhymes, look at picture books and gain other experiences that prepare them to read.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Memorize

Memorize \Mem"o*rize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Memorized; p. pr. & vb. n. Memorizing.] [See Memory.]

  1. To cause to be remembered; hence, to record. [Obs.]

    They neglect to memorize their conquest.
    --Spenser.

    They meant to . . . memorize another Golgotha.
    --Shak.

  2. To commit to memory; to learn by heart.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
memorize

1590s, "commit to writing;" see memory + -ize. The meaning "commit to memory" is from 1838. Related: Memorized; memorizing.

Wiktionary
memorize

alt. To learn by heart, commit to memory. vb. To learn by heart, commit to memory.

WordNet
memorize

v. commit to memory; learn by heart; "Have you memorized your lines for the play yet?" [syn: memorise, con, learn]

Usage examples of "memorize".

The Ampersand troops, who had memorized every detail of that layout, stared in astonishment and elation.

For the first time, human and machine had taken a complex compound, digitized it, quite literally turning it from matter into energy as it did so, then converted back from energy to matter using the digital pattern memorized by the computer as it had been converted the first time.

By this time, he and Paglione knew Eau Claire fairly well, having spent more than a day simply driving the streets, studying maps, memorizing the layout of the city.

Jake DeS hazer wrote poetry on a mental blackboard, and Bob Meder reviewed books he had read, making outlines of them, and sometimes reciting poetry he had memorized in school.

These controls were remarkably simple, and I had long-since memorized the instructions given me by Hoom for the operation of the sled.

He talked cautiously with Mandy Make as to good watch-words, in no way revealing his designs, and from her secured certain texts which she had herself unconsciously memorized from many hearings of Jowler preachers.

But he similarized the tail assembly of the plane to the memorized area beside the fence.

He similarized the wire end back in the control room to the first memorized area, and waited.

He accepted a wooden square from the hands of a centurion and memorized the watchword cut into it.

Another last-minute reminder: once she started on this, there was no turning back, Marghe tapped out the memorized sequence.

Walking away, Marler first recorded in his notebook the number he had memorized.

Night falls, and the queuers, each memorizing his or her place number, dispose themselves on benches round the square.

Marie and I have both memorized portions of a small program that, once created, will extract the virus, portions of the data, and a portion of each of the programs, and recompile it into the Infinite Reductions algorithm.

Marre pine needles so that she could redraw for herself the map of the northern continent she had memorized before setting out on her journey.

She would come to him at night not as a succubus but seeking instruction, perhaps to carry back to her nest - wherever in the Parish it was - something of his desire to bring her to Christ: a scapular medal, a memorized verse from the New Testament, a partial indulgence, a penance.