Retent vs Memorize - What's the difference?
retent | memorize |
That which is retained.
* Laurens Perseus Hickok, Empirical Psychology: Or, The Science of Mind from Experience
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:
As a noun retent
is that which is retained.As a verb memorize is
to learn by heart, commit to memory.retent
English
Noun
(en noun)- The retent , when known, stands before us as if reflected and inverted in a mirror, the nearest events in the past being this way the nearest as actually remembered.
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.