What's the difference between legendary and memorable?

Legendary


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a legend or to legends; consisting of legends; like a legend; fabulous.
  • (n.) A book of legends; a tale or narrative.
  • (n.) One who relates legends.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Richards was a feminist who, rather than scaring men, stung them with her wit, a technique she famously applied to President George Bush senior in what became a legendary quip in American politics.
  • (2) 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.
  • (3) Bungie has several staff who worked at the legendary animation studio and who brought with them the company’s approach to facilitating creation.
  • (4) Forman’s legendary London Cure smoked salmon is about to boost its credentials further when it will be awarded the highly prized European protected (PGI) status.
  • (5) • The 2013 budget deficit will be 4.5% of GDP • The Portuguese economy is expected to shrink by 1% in 2013 • Total austerity measures = 3.2% of GDP • Average income tax rate will rise to 11.8% • Total tax brackets will fall to 5, from 8 (pushing many people into higher brackets) • Public service job cuts • Reductions in pensions (totalling around €400m) 6.19pm BST SOROS: EURO CRISIS IS A NIGHTMARE Legendary fund manager George Soros has criticised eurozone leaders for creating a "nightmare" situation that is heading towards a depression, during an event in New York today.
  • (6) While Arsenal prepare to take a final bow at their legendary Highbury home after Saturday's match against Wigan Athletic, the club's startling new empire half a mile away, the Emirates Stadium, is an issue in tomorrow's local election.
  • (7) "To be invited to co-headline the 40th-anniversary celebration at the legendary Knebworth House is truly a mindfuck," Metallica's Lars Ulrich said in a press release.
  • (8) He developed a parallel career as a rock video director after mentioning in a meeting with record label and film company Warp that he loved the Arctic Monkeys, and ended up directing a string of videos for them (given the band's legendary reticence, the mind boggles at what the initial meeting was like) as well as Vampire Weekend , Kasabian and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs .
  • (9) I also never thought I’d see legendary goalkeeper Gabor Kiraly showing off his grey sweatpants at a major tournament.
  • (10) I've come to Austin, legendary birthplace of Spam (the canned as opposed to the digital version), to find out what this self-publishing revolution looks like in the flesh.
  • (11) Some of the discos – or “pipers” as they were locally known, in homage to Rome’s legendary Piper nightspot – were visibly influenced by Andy Warhol’s multimedia experiments at the Dom nightclub in Manhattan, home to the Exploding Plastic Inevitable events, where the Velvet Underground would play amid lightshows, dancers and projections of Warhol’s films.
  • (12) On Friday in St Petersburg, Florida, the legendary pro-wrestler, whose real name is Terry Bollea, delivered a $115m legal hit on the iconoclastic web publisher, a victory that signals a significant change in the public’s tolerance for media invasions of privacy – and that could bankrupt the site.
  • (13) Start with pasteis de bacalhau , Portugal’s legendary cod fritters.
  • (14) He became a member of the legendary Cambridge Apostles.
  • (15) It makes up part of our legendary picaresque national character, and our weak culture of solidarity."
  • (16) In real life, before Play, Moby was bumping around New York, getting DJ gigs in now legendary clubs like Mars and Nasa, as well as awful swingers’ nights (he says he would play anywhere).
  • (17) Warren Buffett, the legendary investor, moved up one spot to third and is one of the 42 Americans in the ranking.
  • (18) His nom de guerre was Sayyed Zul Fikar: Sayyed indicating a claimed descent from the prophet Muhammad; Zul Fikar being the name of the legendary forked sword of Imam Ali, the prophet’s cousin and one of the most revered figures in Shia Islam.
  • (19) Only the pioneering cardiac anomalies repaired by Gross (patent duct arteriosus, 1938), Blalock and Taussig (tetralogy of Fallot, 1944), and Crafoord and Nylin (coarctation, 1945) and the legendary aortic grafting operations of Oudot (occlusion, 1950) and Dubost and coworkers (aneurysm, 1951) are not a part of this article.
  • (20) • The death this week of the legendary folk singer and activist Pete Seeger has drawn tributes from all quarters, not least two of Labour's leftier parliamentarians, Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell, who tabled an early day motion in tribute.

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.