Memorize vs Resemble - What's the difference?
memorize | resemble |
to learn by heart, commit to memory
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* 2009 , A Practical Study of Argument (ISBN 0495603406), page 123:
* 2009 , Hailey Abbott, The Perfect Boy (ISBN 006197157X), page 258:
(transitive) To be like or similar to (something); to represent as similar.
* Shakespeare
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To compare; to regard as similar, to liken.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.x:
(obsolete) To counterfeit; to imitate.
* Holland
(obsolete) To cause to imitate or be like; to make similar.
As verbs the difference between memorize and resemble
is that memorize is to learn by heart, commit to memory while resemble is To be like or similar to (something); to represent as similar.memorize
English
Alternative forms
* (UK) memoriseVerb
- 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.
- 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
* memorizationresemble
English
Verb
- We will resemble you in that.
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- But what you've just described does resemble a person of that kind.
- The twins resemble each other.
- And th'other all yclad in garments light, / Discolour'd like to womanish disguise, / He did resemble to his Ladie bright [...].
- They can so well resemble man's speech.