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[ ri-mem-ber ]

/ rɪˈmɛm bər /

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verb (used with object)

to recall to the mind by an act or effort of memory; think of again: I'll try to remember the exact date.

to retain in the memory; keep in mind; remain aware of: Remember your appointment with the dentist.

to have (something) come into the mind again: I just remembered that it's your birthday today.

to bear (a person) in mind as deserving a gift, reward, or fee: The company always remembers us at Christmas.

to give a tip, donation, or gift to: to remember someone in need.

to mention (a person) to another as sending kindly greetings: Remember me to your family.

(of an appliance, computer, etc.) to perform (a programmed activity) at a later time or according to a preset schedule: The coffeepot remembers to start the coffee at 7 a.m. every day.

Archaic. to remind.

verb (used without object)

to possess or exercise the faculty of memory.

to have recollection (sometimes followed by of): The old man remembers of his youth.

OPPOSITES FOR remember

1, 2 forget.

See antonyms for remember on Thesaurus.com

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Origin of remember

First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English remembren, from Old French remembrer, from Late Latin rememorārī, equivalent to re- re- + Latin memor “mindful” (see memory) + -ārī infinitive suffix

synonym study for remember

1. Remember, recall, recollect refer to bringing back before the conscious mind things which exist in the memory. Remember implies that a thing exists in the memory, though not actually present in the thoughts at the moment: to remember the days of one's childhood. Recall implies a voluntary effort, though not a great one: to recall the words of a song. Recollect implies an earnest voluntary effort to remember some definite, desired fact or thing: I cannot recollect the exact circumstances.

OTHER WORDS FROM remember

re·mem·ber·a·ble, adjectivere·mem·ber·er, nounun·re·mem·bered, adjectiveun·re·mem·ber·ing, adjective

well-re·mem·bered, adjective

Words nearby remember

remedial reading, remediate, remediation, remediless, remedy, remember, Remember the Alamo!, Remember the Maine, remembrance, Remembrance Day, Remembrance of Things Past

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Words related to remember

commemorate, get, learn, look back, recall, recognize, relive, remind, bethink, cite, educe, elicit, enshrine, extract, memorialize, memorize, mind, recollect, reminisce, retain

How to use remember in a sentence

  • I remember when he started in politics, and I used to live on 9th and Franklin, and I'd see him.

    The Trailer: The First State goes last|David Weigel|September 15, 2020|Washington Post

  • There is no end to 2020 that will lead us to remember it as a great year, but when an entire year can be compared to a colonoscopy, a couple months of “not so bad” could do us all a lot of good.

    How 2020 is like a colonoscopy|jakemeth|September 10, 2020|Fortune

  • “This is not OK,” Peter remembers saying to Potts at the time.

    The Woman Propositioned by Alaska’s Former Lieutenant Governor Tells Her Story for the First Time|by Kyle Hopkins and Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News|September 10, 2020|ProPublica

  • Roark remembers sitting in his designated driver’s car, waiting for a friend in the backseat for several minutes, when a flashlight shined into the backseat.

    Those Ticketed for Seditious Language Say Their Only Crime Was Talking Back|Kate Nucci|September 9, 2020|Voice of San Diego

  • That larger network makes it easier to learn and remember things.

    Top 10 tips on how to study smarter, not longer|Kathiann Kowalski|September 9, 2020|Science News For Students

  • The plan is to stretch it out as long as possible, then probably forget about it, and then suddenly remember it.

    ‘Archer’ Creator Adam Reed Spills Season 6 Secrets, From Surreal Plotlines to Life Post-ISIS|Marlow Stern|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST

  • I remember H. Jon Benjamin told me it was a way-too-late apology for Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

    ‘Archer’ Creator Adam Reed Spills Season 6 Secrets, From Surreal Plotlines to Life Post-ISIS|Marlow Stern|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST

  • Lacey Noonan's A Gronking to Remember makes 50 Shades of Grey look like Madame Bovary in terms of its literary sophistication.

    ‘A Gronking to Remember’ Speed Read: 8 Naughtiest Bits|Emily Shire|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST

  • And with stand-ups, I remember liking George Carlin and Steve Martin.

    Coffee Talk with Fred Armisen: On ‘Portlandia,’ Meeting Obama, and Taylor Swift’s Greatness|Marlow Stern|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST

  • I remember all our music appeared on Spotify overnight, without anybody asking us.

    Belle & Sebastian Aren’t So Shy Anymore|James Joiner|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST

  • Give not up thy heart to sadness, but drive it from thee: and remember the latter end.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various

  • And remember it is by our hypothesis the best possible form and arrangement of that lesson.

    The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

  • Hasten the time, and remember the end, that they may declare thy wonderful works.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various

  • We have to remember that his daily life, where the home is orderly, helps to impress on him regularity of form.

    Children's Ways|James Sully

  • Henceforth he must remember Winifred only when his sword was at the throat of some wretched mutineer appealing for mercy.

    The Red Year|Louis Tracy

British Dictionary definitions for remember

remember

/ (rɪˈmɛmbə) /

verb

to become aware of (something forgotten) again; bring back to one's consciousness; recall

to retain (an idea, intention, etc) in one's conscious mindto remember Pythagoras' theorem; remember to do one's shopping

(tr) to give money, etc, to (someone), as in a will or in tipping

(tr foll by to) to mention (a person's name) to another person, as by way of greeting or friendshipremember me to your mother

(tr) to mention (a person) favourably, as in prayer

(tr) to commemorate (a person, event, etc)to remember the dead of the wars

remember oneself to recover one's good manners after a lapse; stop behaving badly

Derived forms of remember

rememberer, noun

Word Origin for remember

C14: from Old French remembrer, from Late Latin rememorārī to recall to mind, from Latin re- + memor mindful; see memory

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

REMEMBER Synonyms: 49 Synonyms & Antonyms for REMEMBER

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  • verbkeep in mind; summon into mind

synonyms for remember

  • commemorate
  • get
  • learn
  • look back
  • recall
  • recognize
  • relive
  • remind
  • bethink
  • cite
  • educe
  • elicit
  • enshrine
  • extract
  • memorialize
  • memorize
  • mind
  • recollect
  • reminisce
  • retain
  • retrospect
  • revive
  • revoke
  • treasure
  • bear in mind
  • brood over
  • call to mind
  • call up
  • conjure up
  • dig into the past
  • dwell upon
  • fix in the mind
  • flash on
  • go back
  • have memories
  • hold dear
  • keep forever
  • know by heart
  • nail down
  • refresh memory
  • ring a bell
  • strike a note
  • summon up
  • think back

See also synonyms for: rememberable / remembered / remembering / unremembered

antonyms for remember

MOST RELEVANT

  • forget
  • miss
  • misunderstand
  • repress
  • disregard

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How to use remember in a sentence

I remember when he started in politics, and I used to live on 9th and Franklin, and I'd see him.

THE TRAILER: THE FIRST STATE GOES LASTDAVID WEIGELSEPTEMBER 15, 2020WASHINGTON POST

There is no end to 2020 that will lead us to remember it as a great year, but when an entire year can be compared to a colonoscopy, a couple months of “not so bad” could do us all a lot of good.

HOW 2020 IS LIKE A COLONOSCOPYJAKEMETHSEPTEMBER 10, 2020FORTUNE

“This is not OK,” Peter remembers saying to Potts at the time.

THE WOMAN PROPOSITIONED BY ALASKA’S FORMER LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR TELLS HER STORY FOR THE FIRST TIMEBY KYLE HOPKINS AND MICHELLE THERIAULT BOOTS, ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWSSEPTEMBER 10, 2020PROPUBLICA

Roark remembers sitting in his designated driver’s car, waiting for a friend in the backseat for several minutes, when a flashlight shined into the backseat.

THOSE TICKETED FOR SEDITIOUS LANGUAGE SAY THEIR ONLY CRIME WAS TALKING BACKKATE NUCCISEPTEMBER 9, 2020VOICE OF SAN DIEGO

That larger network makes it easier to learn and remember things.

TOP 10 TIPS ON HOW TO STUDY SMARTER, NOT LONGERKATHIANN KOWALSKISEPTEMBER 9, 2020SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTS

These passwords are super-secure and you won’t have to remember them, as the manager will do all the hard work.

HOW TO GET STARTED USING A PASSWORD MANAGERDAVID NIELDSEPTEMBER 8, 2020POPULAR-SCIENCE

It’s almost hard to remember it now, but before the pandemic, Skype was a more popular way to Zoom than Zoom was.

IS ZOOM ON THE ROAD TO GENERICIDE?MICHELLE CHENGSEPTEMBER 8, 2020QUARTZ

You may remember from biology class that there are two phases of the menstrual cycle.

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT PERIOD TRACKINGCHRISTINE YUSEPTEMBER 6, 2020OUTSIDE ONLINE

At this moment, I implore you to remember why you became a police officer.

WHAT CAN MAYORS DO WHEN THE POLICE STOP DOING THEIR JOBS?BY ALEC MACGILLISSEPTEMBER 3, 2020PROPUBLICA

Sometimes that’s hard to remember, especially early in a running journey.

17 TRAINING MYTHS, ADDRESSED BY A RUNNING COACHBRENDAN LEONARDAUGUST 30, 2020OUTSIDE ONLINE

WORDS RELATED TO REMEMBER

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  • deliberate
  • devise
  • mind
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  • reminisce
  • bewared
  • called to minded
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  • to remembered
  • was aware of
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  • was mindful of

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9 Ways to Memorize New Words Faster ‹ GO Blog

When learning a language, it is important to focus not only on grammar, but also on expanding your vocabulary. New words are new opportunities for communication and increased feelings of self-satisfaction.

There are no magic or secret ways, only working methods. I tell you how to quickly learn foreign words:

  1. TECHNOLOGY

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For example, if you can't remember how to spell the word "accommodation" ("housing"), just imagine that the house has two beds with two mattresses ( two c ots with two m attresses Or think of a few simple words for each letter of the word. Let's say STORE can be remembered as to buy S paghetti, T omatoes, O lives, R ice, E ggs. At first it seems that memorizing words in English in this way is much more difficult than memorizing, but the more you use this technique, the clearer it becomes.

  1. LANGUAGE ENVIRONMENT

While studying abroad you are completely immersed in a new culture and language: you constantly speak it, read and even think. Just to start learning foreign words, it is not necessary to wait until the moment of the long-awaited trip. Start preparing in advance - paste over each item in your room with stickers with their English name. This will help you learn new words faster and incorporate them into your speech.

  1. CONTEXT

How to memorize new words? Remember not a set of random words, but their context. It will become clear to you how this word is used in life, and it will be easier to make an association for memorization.

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To achieve your goal, you need to completely immerse yourself in the process of achieving it. There is no partial success. Surround yourself with words. The more you meet them, the faster they will be remembered. Read books or watch movies in the original language, listen to podcasts in English. If you see or hear a phrase or sentence that you don't understand, write it down, look up the meaning, and try to remember it.

  1. NEXT LEVEL

If you want to take your language learning to the next level, leave room for new terms, synonyms or antonyms. To get the most out of the learning process, try not to translate the words into your native language, but write down the explanations in the one you are trying to learn.

  1. PERSONALIZED

Everyone learns differently, so if you don't already know what works for you, try as many different ways or combinations as you can: word cards, phone apps, lists words, games or stickers are great ways to increase your vocabulary. The same applies to finding the right time: some people need a precise schedule, others learn spontaneously. But the main thing is to practice systematically. Practice makes everything perfect and possible.

  1. INTERACTIVE

Make learning more fun by not just reading the words on the cards, but listening to their correct pronunciation and checking the spelling. Use all your senses to memorize and understand the material.

  1. FOCUS

If you need to expand your vocabulary for a job in the marketing department, you definitely don't need to focus on words related to the Middle Ages or cooking. The more relevant the words are to your life, the more you will enjoy learning and using them.

  1. REPEAT

It is important not only to learn new foreign words, but also not to forget the old ones. After all, our goal is not to replace already established expressions with new words, but to expand our vocabulary.

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How to quickly learn words. The Scientific Approach

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THREE SCIENTIFICLY BASED METHODS THAT WORK

You learn these words, but it's no use! After a couple of days everything is forgotten.

Use a scientific approach to memorization! We present you three scientifically based methods that will allow you to quickly and permanently memorize foreign words.

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HOW MANY WORDS DO YOU NEED TO KNOW?

To begin with, let's figure out how many words you need to learn in order to begin to understand most of the foreign speech, and to express your thoughts yourself. A five-year-old child living in an English-speaking country uses 4,000-5,000 words, and a university graduate uses about 20,000 words. However, an English language learner only has a vocabulary of 5,000 words, despite years of study.

But the good news is : a vocabulary of 2,000 words is enough to understand 80% of foreign speech. The researchers came to this conclusion based on the analysis of the Brown Corpus. A linguistic corpus is a collection of texts on various topics.

Interestingly, after you have learned 2,000 words, vocabulary replenishment for each subsequent 1,000 words allows you to increase the amount of understood text by only 3-4%.

HOW TO REMEMBER A WORD QUICKLY?

The first question that interests everyone is how to quickly memorize foreign words?

Scientists came to the conclusion that the information that has an emotional coloring is remembered faster. Accordingly, it is a good idea to learn words through games, riddles, movies. I liked the song - do not be too lazy to look at the translation of incomprehensible words. These words will forever be associated with the song you like, which means they will leave an emotional trace in your memory.

Great welcome - mnemonics. Create colorful associations - this will allow you to remember even hard-to-pronounce words. Usage example: the word weather is similar to the Russian word wind, we build a wind-weather pair in our head, remember forever that weather translates to weather. There are special reference books where you can find various mnemonic techniques for memorizing English words. However, it is better to come up with such associations on your own, since our associations and emotions are strictly individual.

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HOW TO NOT FORGET A WORD SO QUICKLY?

So, you learned a couple of hundred words, but after a week, about ten of them remained in your memory. What is the problem? This is due to the existence of short-term and long-term memory. The mechanisms of short-term memory allow you to store information for 15-30 minutes, then, noticing that this information is not used, the brain gets rid of it, as if it were something unnecessary. How can we make it clear to the brain that we really need these words? The answer is repetition. It's like with Pavlov's dog: the light bulb lights up - saliva is released. However, it is released only after 5-10 repetitions of the food + light chain. If food is not served when the light is turned on, the association of the light bulb with food in the dog's brain will be destroyed, and saliva will stop secreting.

So how many times does a word need to be repeated in order for it to stably move from short-term to long-term memory?

The German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus developed the Forgetting Curve, which characterizes the amount of information lost over time in the absence of repetition. During the first 20 minutes after learning the words, we will already remember 60%, and within 1 hour we will lose more than 50% of the information. Then, over time, more and more information will be erased, and by day 3, only 20% of the information will remain in memory. Thus, if you miss at least one day in repetition, you will not return the forgotten words.

The conclusion is obvious: no repetition anywhere . Use words in speech, make up stories using new words, play flashcards on your smartphone for at least a couple of minutes a day - all this will help you save the learned words. Otherwise, the time spent on their initial study will simply be wasted.

We suggest using the following repetition schedule:

  • 10-15 minutes after learning the words;
  • After 50-60 minutes;
  • Next day;
  • After 1 day;
  • After 2 days.

After that, most of the information will be fixed for life.

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HOW TO EXPRESS THOUGHTS FASTER?

I really want foreign words to flow from my mouth without requiring excessive brain strain and several minutes to formulate a phrase. There is an opportunity to accelerate the formation of foreign speech - this is the development of muscle memory. By muscles here we mean the muscles of our articulatory apparatus. These muscles, like the muscles of the legs when riding a bicycle or the muscles of the fingers of a pianist, have a memory that allows you to perform automated movements almost unconsciously.

In order for muscle memory to form, it is important to pronounce words out loud while learning words, making movements with the tongue and lips. It is also useful to simultaneously present an image of the subject being studied. Over time, you will no longer think about what word to say - the muscles will do it automatically.

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