Memory

Definition

memory /'memǝri / n ၁။ (က) [C,U] ~ (for sth) မွတ္ဉာဏ္။ He has a good/ poor memory for dates (ie remembers them easily/ with difficulty). ❍ lose one's memory in an accident ❍ recite their names from memory (ie without reading them or referring to notes) ❍ commit sth to memory (ie learn and remember it) ❍ His name slipped my memory (ie I forgot it). (ခ) [U] မွတ္ႏိုင္စြမ္း။ မွတ္ဉာဏ္။ the parts of the brain responsible for memory. ၂။ [C] မွတ္မိျခင္း။ သတိရျခင္း။ happy memories of childhood ❍ I have no memory of such a request. ၃။ [U] မွတ္မိသေရြ႕။ This hasn't happened before in recent memory. ၄။ [U] သြားေလသူအေၾကာင္း။ His memory will always remain with us (ie We will always remember him). ၅။ [C,U] ( computing ) ကြန္ပ်ဴတာမွတ္ဉာဏ္။ See also RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY ❏ if memory serves (me) [ IDM ] ( fml ) (မိမိ) မွတ္မိ တတ္သေရြ႕။ She married a civil servant, if memory serves me right/ correctly. ❏ in memory of sb/to the memory of sb [ IDM ] သြားေလသူကို အမွတ္တရအျဖစ္။ He founded the charity in memory of his late wife. ❏ memory lane n [U] ေရွးျဖစ္ေဟာင္း ေအာက္ေမ့ဖြယ္။ take a trip down memory lane.

Examples

1. The memory of that night is still clear in his mind.
2. [memory of] : I don’t have very fond memories of my school days.
3. [a vivid memory] : What are your most vivid memories of that period?
4. Her memory will live on for ever (=people will always remember her).
5. A small monument was erected to the memory of those who died.
6. A memory test
7. He searched his memory but couldn’t recall where he’d seen her before.
8. Your memory tends to get worse as you get older.
9. My memory was playing tricks on me (=I was not remembering things correctly).
10. [have a good/bad memory for something] : I’ve never had a very good memory for names.
11. This particular model has 256 megabytes of memory.