Recollect vs Memory - What's the difference?
recollect | memory |
To recall; to collect one's thoughts again, especially about past events.
(obsolete) To collect (things) together again.
To compose oneself.
* Dryden
* 1847 , Newton Mallory Curtis, The Patrol of the Mountain (page 52)
(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
As a verb recollect
is to recall; to collect one's thoughts again, especially about past events.As a noun memory is
the ability of an organism to record information about things or events with the facility of recalling them later at will.recollect
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Etymology 1
FromVerb
(en verb)- I remember the concert clearly, but I can't recollect why I was there.
Etymology 2
Verb
(en verb)- The Tyrian queen Admired his fortunes, more admired the man; then recollected stood.
- The Major suddenly recollected himself, and withdrew his hand, and at the same time, threw himself into a chair.
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.