Retrace vs Remember - What's the difference?
retrace | remember |
To trace again; to go back over something, usually in an attempt of rediscovery.
(television) The period when the beam of the cathode-ray tube returns to its initial horizontal position in order to start the next line of the display.
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
, 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 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
* Chapman
* , Secret Parting, lines 5-7
To engage in the process of recalling memories.
As verbs the difference between retrace and remember
is that retrace is to trace again; to go back over something, usually in an attempt of rediscovery while remember is to recall from one's memory; to have an image in one's memory.As a noun retrace
is the period when the beam of the cathode-ray tube returns to its initial horizontal position in order to start the next line of the display.retrace
English
Verb
- He retraced his steps, and found his keys where he had dropped them.
Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
* * ----remember
English
Alternative forms
* remembre (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)citation
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”. […]’.}}
- Since thou dost give me pains, / Let me remember thee what thou hast promis'd, / Which is not yet perform'd me.
- My friends remembered me of home.
- ''But soon, remembering her how brief the whole
- ''Of joy, which its own hours annihilate,
- ''Her set gaze gathered