Memory vs Mental - What's the difference?
memory | mental |
(uncountable) The ability of an organism to record information about things or events with the facility of recalling them later at will.
* (rfdate) Albert Schweitzer
A record of a thing or an event stored and available for later use by the organism.
(computing) The part of a computer that stores variable executable code or data (RAM) or unalterable executable code or default data (ROM).
The time within which past events can be or are remembered.
(attributive, of a material) which returns to its original
(obsolete) A memorial.
* Shakespeare
Of or relating to the mind or an intellectual process.
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*:“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera,, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"
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, volume=189, issue=6, page=34, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Insane, mad, crazy.
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Enjoyable; fun.
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(lb) Of or relating to the chin or median part of the lower jaw, genial.
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(lb) Of or relating to the chin-like or lip-like structure.
As nouns the difference between memory and mental
is that memory is (uncountable) the ability of an organism to record information about things or events with the facility of recalling them later at will while mental is moron.memory
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Alternative forms
* memorie (archaic)Noun
- Memory is a facility common to all animals.
- Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory .
- I have no memory of that event.
- This data passes from the CPU to the memory .
- in recent memory'''''; ''in living '''memory
- These weeds are memories of those worser hours.
Synonyms
* (ability to recall) recall * (stored record) recall, recollection * (RAM or ROM) core (old-fashioned )Derived terms
* declarative memory * eidetic memory * false memory * flashbulb memory * folk memory * institutional memory * living memory * memory bank * memory card * memory foam * memory lane * photographic memory * recent memory * semantic memory * sensory memory * trip down memory laneSee also
* (wikipedia) * remember * mnemonicsStatistics
*mental
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(wikipedia mental)Adjective
(-)Ian Sample
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