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Remember vs Remembering - What's the difference?

remember | remembering |

As verbs the difference between remember and remembering

is that remember is to recall from one's memory; to have an image in one's memory while remembering is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun remembering is

the act by which something is remembered.

remember

English

Alternative forms

* remembre (obsolete)

Verb

(en verb)
  • To recall from one's memory; to have an image in one's memory.
  • * {{quote-book, 1852, Mrs M.A. Thompson, chapter=The Tutor's Daughter, Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion, page=266 citation
    • , passage=In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=6 citation , passage=‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. […]’.}}
  • To memorize; to put something into memory.
  • To not forget (to do something required)
  • To convey greetings from.
  • (obsolete) To put in mind; to remind (also used reflexively)
  • * 1610 , , act 1 scene 2
    • Since thou dost give me pains, / Let me remember thee what thou hast promis'd, / Which is not yet perform'd me.
  • * Chapman
    • My friends remembered me of home.
  • * , Secret Parting, lines 5-7
    • ''But soon, remembering her how brief the whole
    ''Of joy, which its own hours annihilate,
    ''Her set gaze gathered
  • To engage in the process of recalling memories.

    • Usage notes

    * In sense 1 this is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) . * In sense 3 this is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. * See

    Synonyms

    * recall * reminisce

    Derived terms

    * rememberer * remembrance

    See also

    * recollect * recollection * remind

    Statistics

    * English reporting verbs 1000 English basic words

    remembering

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is remembered.
  • * (Marita Sturken)
    • The Vietnam War films are forms of memory that function to provide collective rememberings , to construct history, and to subsume within them the experience of the veterans.