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Retent vs Memorize - What's the difference?

retent | memorize |

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)
  • That which is retained.
  • * Laurens Perseus Hickok, Empirical Psychology: Or, The Science of Mind from Experience
    • 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.
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    memorize

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (UK) memorise

    Verb

  • to learn by heart, commit to memory
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  • * 2009 , A Practical Study of Argument (ISBN 0495603406), page 123:
    • 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.
  • * 2009 , Hailey Abbott, The Perfect Boy (ISBN 006197157X), page 258:
    • 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

    * memorization