What's the difference between catchy and memorable?

Catchy


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Heist features great songs, catchy, radio-friendly hooks and Macklemore's patented thought-provoking lyrics.
  • (2) McFadden, a pop star himself, is in the news this week after his new single "Just The Way You Are (Drunk at the Bar)", released by Universal Music, was roundly read as a catchy ode to date rape.
  • (3) Chaotic, yes, with a lot going on (there's sometimes a feeling you'd need a serious grounding in music technology to appreciate the denser parts), but it's full of catchy, accessible tracks, such as "Twist Your Ankal".
  • (4) Paddy was thinking big with the catchy title of More United.
  • (5) And until then, there is not much to learn here, except another reminder that just about every catchy North Korea headline should add a warning – Caution: Contents May Have Shifted During Flight.
  • (6) It can take all of a parent's ingenuity to get though a shopping trip without unwillingly picking up a tin of Barbie spaghetti shapes, a box of cereal with Lightning McQueen smirking from the front, or a bag of fruit chews with a catchy jingle.
  • (7) Like gay, it should be catchy: a potentially prolific meme.
  • (8) They were the "juggernaut leading the Korean Wave across Asia, the embodiment of the ultra-slick choreography and catchy pop songs that earned K-pop its reputation", says Robert Poole, chief executive of SomethingDrastic, a Tokyo-based Asian music promoter.
  • (9) Josh: I thought it sounded catchy, and as ducks have both bills and beaks, that seemed like a good starting point.
  • (10) "I wasn't aiming for anything too catchy …" The Coalition of Resistance in Newcastle was formed in response to the letter that Tony Benn and 73 others wrote to the Guardian protesting at the cuts.
  • (11) You've got to hand it to us baby boomers, our sociology was as catchy as our pop music.
  • (12) I shouldn’t have caused our country and shareholders such great losses just for the sake of sensationalism and eye-catchiness.
  • (13) Physicists have been so busy coming up with new ideas for experiments in the new phase of Fermilab's work that they have singularly failed to come up with a catchy name for their ultimate intensity-frontier programme.
  • (14) I worried that this would not make for as catchy a headline as I had hoped.
  • (15) To communicate with non-specialists, it may be more appropriate to focus on simpler images with catchy graphics and thematic colouring.
  • (16) Mandelson could better understand that the New Labour project, like sweeties at the check-out counter, was a catchy little number for a while but insufficiently nourishing or robust in ideas to feed the political appetite for very long.
  • (17) We're not a catchy pop tune, we're more like a great indie, Morrissey-type song."
  • (18) But, of course, that catchy La La Land song City of Stars made the title impossible to read without mentally crooning like Ryan Gosling.
  • (19) Almost two months after a portly 34-year-old armed with a catchy chorus and a comical line in choreography soared to the top of the British pop charts, the world doesn't appear to have had its fill of Gangnam Style .
  • (20) The place is "a slow-motion Chernobyl", according to campaigners from Greenpeace, a group which has a reputation for never missing out on the catchy phrase.

Memorable


Definition:

  • (a.) Worthy to be remembered; very important or remarkable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If I could get a shot, I was going to shoot it,” said Arcidiacono, who finished with 16 points and two assists, one more memorable than the other.
  • (2) We had some memorable encounters and he was very rude to me.
  • (3) Our goal was to encourage analysis and synthesis rather than memorization; evaluating such higher taxonomic levels of education is extraordinarily difficult.
  • (4) But among the football-faith community the legendary Anfield Road stadium is not considered a sacred site for nothing, and on this memorable night everyone felt what mighty magic can be summoned here.” Describing the match as “a classic in the illustrious history of these two clubs for years to come”, the commentator Daniel Theweleit also believed that the atmosphere at Anfield put Dortmund’s own famed fan culture into the shade: “Even those who have watched the club for centuries agreed that Dortmund has never achieved this kind of intensity.” Munich-based Süddeutsche Zeitung found satisfaction in seeing the German coach Jürgen Klopp exporting his magic touch across the Channel.
  • (5) "The memorable 1961 British Home Championship yielded an astonishing 40 goals from six matches," writes Erik Kennedy.
  • (6) Each subject sat for 6 minutes in a darkened room and was told to memorize a list of words she heard form a tape.
  • (7) Subjects were presented with a list of 25 words and performed one of the following tasks: semantic, nonsemantic, or passive listening, presented in an incidental memory paradigm, or intentional memorization.
  • (8) As a central feature of every ceremony, Nepali shamans (jhãkris) publicly recite lengthy oral texts, whose meticulous memorization constitutes the core of shamanic training.
  • (9) His last collection, entitled Plato's Atlantis, is one of his most memorable and became a must-have for celebrities looking for paparazzi attention.
  • (10) Genetic information as memorizing accidental choice always arises as a result of the environment interaction, when memorizing realization in the form of repeated reproduction occurs on the basis of processes radically different from those which created initial genetic chance.
  • (11) When a user inserts an identification card into the card reader, the computer memorizes assigned gate number, the user's number and the time; it processes those data and prints out a document.
  • (12) This section was memorably captured by the computer and security expert Caspar Bowden , who wrote: "Interpreting that section requires the unravelling of a triple-nested inversion of meanings across six cross-referenced subsections, linked to a dozen other cross-linked definitions, which are all dependent on a highly ambiguous 'notwithstanding'."
  • (13) His annoyance was memorably captured by a BBC film crew for a documentary.
  • (14) She has written books on how to be a success and hosts Dom-2 , the longest-running reality show in the world, which has been memorably described as the worst thing to hit Russian culture since the Mongols.
  • (15) Ms Williams's name will already be familiar to many gay rights campaigners courtesy of a memorable speech on same-sex relationships, in which she applauded Jamaica's criminalisation of what her sect considers a curable aberration, a diagnosis she did not hesitate to apply to Tom Daly.
  • (16) An embryological hypothesis is presented to explain and memorize all the artrial variations of this area.
  • (17) In the last few weeks, Miami has had to rely on comebacks, most memorably when they dug themselves out a 27-point hole against the Cleveland Cavaliers .
  • (18) It was the first time I had been underground in Staffordshire since I was a coal miner in the 1980s but the visit was memorable for another reason.
  • (19) Newsnight's audience bounced back in July 2011 with its coverage of the phone-hacking affair, and its memorable on-screen debate featuring Steve Coogan and former News of the World journalist Paul McMullan.
  • (20) It tries to introduce students to 'voluntary and active as against passive learning ... and problem-solving rather than imposed memorizing' of medicalized forms of psychiatry, an innovation compared with the previous conventional method.

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