What's the difference between memorize and recall?

Memorize


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cause to be remembered ; hence, to record.
  • (v. t.) To commit to memory; to learn by heart.

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.

Recall


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To call back; to summon to return; as, to recall troops; to recall an ambassador.
  • (v. t.) To revoke; to annul by a subsequent act; to take back; to withdraw; as, to recall words, or a decree.
  • (v. t.) To call back to mind; to revive in memory; to recollect; to remember; as, to recall bygone days.
  • (n.) A calling back; a revocation.
  • (n.) A call on the trumpet, bugle, or drum, by which soldiers are recalled from duty, labor, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Dietary intakes, measured by three 24-hour recalls, revealed that protein, iron and Vitamin C generally met or exceeded the Nutrition Recommendations for age.
  • (2) One was a long duration of symptoms as recalled at diagnosis.
  • (3) But I recall my own first encounter with that ideology, back in the 1990s.
  • (4) Although those receiving active pretraining plus mnemonics did not differ from one another at Time 3, they recalled more than those with no active pretraining.
  • (5) The dietary fibre intake of 25 patients with the irritable bowel syndrome was assessed by dietary recall over one week for the period before onset of symptoms, at diagnosis and after six months treatment with bran and a fibre-rich diet, and compared with controls matched for age and sex.
  • (6) "I wanted it to have a romantic feel," says Wilson, "recalling Donald Campbell and his Bluebird machines and that spirit of awe-inspiring adventure."
  • (7) The authors recall the advantages of low transcartilage incision in rhinoplasty and, by means of several technical details, illustrate the value of this approach in submucosal dissection.
  • (8) A final experiment confirmed a prediction from the above theory that when recalling the original sequence, omissions (recalling no word) will decrease and transpositions (giving the wrong word) will increase as noise level increases.
  • (9) In general, variables that affected recall and recognition of studied words had parallel effects on their associates.
  • (10) Standing as he explains the book's take-home point, Miliband recalls the author Michael Lewis's research showing that a quarter-back is the most highly paid player, but because they throw with their right arm they can often be floored by an attacker from their blindside.
  • (11) This study sought to determine how well individuals are able to recall accurately their food habits of 24 years ago and identify those factors that are predictive of recall ability.
  • (12) To estimate inaccuracy in a diarrhoea recall survey mothers of pre-school children in Teknaf, Bangladesh were interviewed every week from July 1980 through June 1983.
  • (13) This resulted in a false-positive recall incidence greater than 92% owing to various additional factors which also influence T4 levels: thyroxine-binding-globulin deficiency, prematurity, and maternal drug ingestion.
  • (14) Throughout the decade that it took GM to recall the Cobalt, there was a lack of accountability, a lack of urgency, and a failure of company personnel charged with ensuring the safety of the company's vehicles to understand how GM's own cars were designed.
  • (15) In this paper we describe a novel and reproducible technique for measuring cluster formation in suspension between purified human blood monocytes and purified autologous T lymphocytes, and its application to determining the effects of recall antigens and mitogen.
  • (16) Awareness of making dispositional inferences was only weakly correlated with disposition-cued recall.
  • (17) Our later measures – parliament's power to declare peace and war, MPs to be subject to a right to recall, an end to the royal prerogative, an elected Lords – were about a 21st-century democracy, with citizenship to be founded on a new bill of rights and responsibilities and, in time, a written constitution.
  • (18) We had a brief conversation and I said to him he was acting from high honour here, and I said how sorry I was this wasn’t happening in three or four years time..because Barry is a man of honour..and I think he is a very capable premier and I think he has been missed.” Asked whether he had ever met Nick di Girolamo , the prime minister said both he and Mr di Girolamo attended a lot of functions, and “I don’t for a moment say I have never met him but I don’t recall it.” But former federal Liberal MP Ross Cameron sounded much more sceptical about O’Farrell’s memory lapse when speaking to Sky News.
  • (19) Eighty-six adults serially recalled lists of visually presented consonant letters similar in auditory or visual features or dissimilar in both feature sets.
  • (20) Patterns of change and variability in text recall performance were assessed in seven elderly women by testing them weekly for up to 2 years.