Memorabilia vs. Memory — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Memorabilia and Memory
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Definitions
Memorabilia➦
Objects that are connected to or remind their owner of past events.
George has a collection of World War II memorabilia.
Memory➦
Memory is the faculty of the brain by which data or information is encoded, stored, and retrieved when needed. It is the retention of information over time for the purpose of influencing future action.
Memorabilia➦
Things worth remembering: noteworthy points.
Memory➦
The mental faculty of retaining and recalling past experience.
Memorabilia➦
Things remarkable and worthy of remembrance or record; also, the record of them.
Memory➦
The act or an instance of remembering; recollection
Spent the afternoon lost in memory.
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Memorabilia➦
Mementos of past events; souvenirs.
Memory➦
All that a person can remember
It hasn't happened in my memory.
Memorabilia➦
A record of things worth remembering
Memory➦
Something that is remembered
Pleasant childhood memories.
Memory➦
The fact of being remembered; remembrance
Dedicated to their parents' memory.
Memory➦
The period of time covered by the remembrance or recollection of a person or group of persons
Within the memory of humankind.
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Memory➦
A circuit or device that stores digital data.
Memory➦
Capacity for storing information
Two gigabytes of memory.
Memory➦
(Statistics) The set of past events affecting a given event in a stochastic process.
Memory➦
The capacity of a material, such as plastic or metal, to return to a previous shape after deformation.
Memory➦
(Immunology) The ability of the immune system to respond faster and more powerfully to subsequent exposure to an antigen.
Memory➦
(uncountable) The ability of the brain to record information or impressions with the facility of recalling them later at will.
Memory is a facility common to all animals.
Memory➦
A record of a thing or an event stored and available for later use by the organism.
I have no memory of that event.
My wedding is one of my happiest memories.
Memory➦
(computing) The part of a computer that stores variable executable code or data (RAM) or unalterable executable code or default data (ROM).
This data passes from the CPU to the memory.
Memory➦
The time within which past events can be or are remembered.
In recent memory
In living memory
Memory➦
Which returns to its original shape when heated
Memory metal
Memory plastic
Memory➦
(obsolete) A memorial.
Memory➦
A term of venery for a social group of elephants, normally called a herd.
Memory➦
The faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of previous thoughts, impressions, or events.
Memory is the purveyor of reason.
Memory➦
The reach and positiveness with which a person can remember; the strength and trustworthiness of one's power to reach and represent or to recall the past; as, his memory was never wrong.
Memory➦
The actual and distinct retention and recognition of past ideas in the mind; remembrance; as, in memory of youth; memories of foreign lands.
Memory➦
The time within which past events can be or are remembered; as, within the memory of man.
And what, before thy memory, was doneFrom the begining.
Memory➦
Something, or an aggregate of things, remembered; hence, character, conduct, etc., as preserved in remembrance, history, or tradition; posthumous fame; as, the war became only a memory.
The memory of the just is blessed.
That ever-living man of memory, Henry the Fifth.
The Nonconformists . . . have, as a body, always venerated her [Elizabeth's] memory.
Memory➦
A memorial.
These weeds are memories of those worser hours.
Memory➦
Something that is remembered;
Search as he would, the memory was lost
Memory➦
The cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered;
He can do it from memory
He enjoyed remembering his father
Memory➦
The power of retaining and recalling past experience;
He had a good memory when he was younger
Memory➦
An electronic memory device;
A memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached
Memory➦
The area of cognitive psychology that studies memory processes;
He taught a graduate course on learning and memory
