What's the difference between memorize and recite?

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.

Recite


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To repeat, as something already prepared, written down, committed to memory, or the like; to deliver from a written or printed document, or from recollection; to rehearse; as, to recite the words of an author, or of a deed or covenant.
  • (v. t.) To tell over; to go over in particulars; to relate; to narrate; as, to recite past events; to recite the particulars of a voyage.
  • (v. t.) To rehearse, as a lesson to an instructor.
  • (v. t.) To state in or as a recital. See Recital, 5.
  • (v. i.) To repeat, pronounce, or rehearse, as before an audience, something prepared or committed to memory; to rehearse a lesson learned.
  • (n.) A recital.

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