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Memorial vs Memorize - What's the difference?

memorial | memorize |

As a noun memorial

is a structure, such as a monument, intended to celebrate the memory of a person or event.

As an adjective memorial

is serving as a remembrance of someone or something; commemorative.

As a verb memorize is

to learn by heart, commit to memory.

memorial

English

(wikipedia memorial)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A structure, such as a monument, intended to celebrate the memory of a person or event
  • A service of remembrance or commemoration
  • (legal) a statement of facts set out in the form of a petition to a person in authority, a court or tribunal, a government, etc .

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Serving as a remembrance of someone or something; commemorative.
    • a memorial building
  • * Alexander Pope
    • There high in air, memorial of my name, / Fix the smooth oar, and bid me live to fame.
  • Contained in the memory.
    • a memorial possession
  • Mnemonic; assisting the memory.
  • * Skeat
    • This succession of Aspirate, Soft, and Hard, may be expressed by the memorial word ASH.

    memorize

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (UK) memorise

    Verb

  • 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.

    Derived terms

    * memorization