memorise
pronunciation
How to pronounce memorise in British English:
UK ['meməraɪz]
How to pronounce memorise in American English:
US ['meməraɪz]
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- Verb:
- commit to memory; learn by heart
Word Origin
- memorise (v.)
- chiefly British English spelling of memorize; for suffix, see -ize. Related: Memorised; memorising; memorisation.
Example
- 1. Read , memorise and you need never think again .
- 2. Memorise your cats or jot them on a sheet of card to keep at hand .
- 3. Memorise your taylor series and a couple of variants of the prisoner 's dilemma , and you 'll be fine .
- 4. To check whether volunteers were just forgetting their target , they gave a new group a list of items to memorise before the search task , which they had to recall afterwards .
- 5. This involved being shown a picture of eight animals and being asked to memorise the order in which the creatures appeared .