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Definition: MEMORIZING

Part of Speech Definition
Verb 1. To study.[Eve - graph theoretic]
2. Present participle conjugation of the verb memorize.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Verb Base
(memorize)
1. Commit to memory; learn by heart; "Have you memorized your lines for the play yet?".[Wordnet].
2. To cause to be remembered ; hence, to record.[Websters].
3. To commit to memory; to learn by heart.[Websters].
4. Base verb from the following inflections: memorizing, memorized, memorizes, memorizer, memorizers, memorizingly and memorizedly.[Eve - graph theoretic]

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Date "Memorizing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1872. (references)

Definition: MEMORIZING

Part of SpeechDefinition
Verb1. To study.[Eve - graph theoretic]
2. Present participle conjugation of the verb memorize.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Verb Base
(memorize)
1. Commit to memory; learn by heart; "Have you memorized your lines for the play yet?".[Wordnet].
2. To cause to be remembered ; hence, to record.[Websters].
3. To commit to memory; to learn by heart.[Websters].
4. Base verb from the following inflections: memorizing, memorized, memorizes, memorizer, memorizers, memorizingly and memorizedly.[Eve - graph theoretic]

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Date "MEMORIZING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1872. (references)

Specialty Definition: memorize

DomainDefinition
Noah Webster1: [Verb] To record; to commit to memory by writing. They neglect to memorize their conquest of the Indians..
 2: [Verb] To cause to be remembered. They meant to memorize another Golgotha.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary.
AerospaceTo learn something by heart. (references)
Wiktionary1: [Verb] to commit to memory. (references)
 2: [Verb] to learn by heart. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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