Cram vs Memorize - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between cram and memorize

is that cram is to ; as, to cram anything into a basket; to cram a room with people while memorize is to learn by heart, commit to memory.

is the act of cramming.

(en noun)

The act of cramming.

Information hastily memorized; as, a cram from an examination.

A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.

(cramm)

To ; as, to cram anything into a basket; to cram a room with people.

To fill with food to ; to stuff.

To put through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination; as, a pupil is crammed by his tutor.

To , and to satiety; to stuff.

To make crude or study.

* cram school

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* (UK) memorise

to learn by heart, commit to memory

* 2009 , A Practical Study of Argument (ISBN 0495603406), page 123:

Many years ago there was a rumor that a basketball star (Jerry Lucas of the New York Knicks) had memorized the entire Manhattan phone book.

* 2009 , Hailey Abbott, The Perfect Boy (ISBN 006197157X), page 258:

She was so used to the way he moved—they'd been practicing together for years, and she'd memorized the way his body worked.

* memorization