(n.) The faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of previous thoughts, impressions, or events.
(n.) The reach and positiveness with which a person can remember; the strength and trustworthiness of one's power to reach and represent or to recall the past; as, his memory was never wrong.
(n.) The actual and distinct retention and recognition of past ideas in the mind; remembrance; as, in memory of youth; memories of foreign lands.
(n.) The time within which past events can be or are remembered; as, within the memory of man.
(n.) Something, or an aggregate of things, remembered; hence, character, conduct, etc., as preserved in remembrance, history, or tradition; posthumous fame; as, the war became only a memory.
(n.) A memorial.
Example Sentences:
(1) The only other evidence of Kopachi's existence is the primary school near the memorial.
(2) Effects of habitual variations in napping on psychomotor performance, short-term memory and subjective states were investigated.
(3) A 24-h test trial employing a dry target demonstrated a robust memory for the training manifested in passive avoidance behavior.
(4) On the clinical level, the disorder is characterized by a memory encoding deficit.
(5) An operant delayed-matching task was used to assess the role of proactive interference (PI) effects on short-term memory capacity of rats.
(6) The information about her father's semi-brainwashing forms an interesting backdrop to Malala's comments when I ask if she ever wonders about the man who tried to kill her on her way back from school that day in October last year, and why his hands were shaking as he held the gun – a detail she has picked up from the girls in the school bus with her at the time; she herself has no memory of the shooting.
(7) Mice with mutations in four nonreceptor tyrosine kinase genes, fyn, src, yes, and abl, were used to study the role of these kinases in long-term potentiation (LTP) and in the relation of LTP to spatial learning and memory.
(8) This alloimmune memory was shown to survive for up to 50 days after first-set rejection.
(9) Gove, who touched on no fewer than 11 policy areas, made his remarks in the annual Keith Joseph memorial lecture organised by the Centre for Policy Studies, the Thatcherite thinktank that was the intellectual powerhouse behind her government.
(10) The effects of noise on information processing in perceptual and memory tasks, as well as time reaction to perceptual stimuli, were investigated in a laboratory experiment.
(11) Continuity of care programs, such as that developed by the Pain Service of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York), with good communication and liaison work between hospital and community, add a much needed dimension to the pain management of these patients in the home.
(12) Their speech patterns, specifically pronoun use, were analyzed and support the postulate that a high frequency of self-references indicates memory loss and paucity of present experience.
(13) Following an encephalopathic illness, a 13-year-old Chinese boy had a partial form of Klüver-Bucy syndrome with emotional disturbance, recent memory loss, hypersexuality, and polyphagia.
(14) It is hypothesized, furthermore, that the kinetics of emergence and loss of these various populations may reflect switching in the mode of immunity being expressed, particularly during the chronic phase of the infection, from that of a state of active immunity to one of immunologic memory.
(15) In contrast, the long-latency P300 cognitive potential, which reflects such processes as sequential information processing and short-term memory, does not show a mature waveform and latency until 14 to 17 years of age.
(16) But we sent out reconnoitres in the morning; we send out a team in advance and they get halfway down the road, maybe a quarter of the way down the road, sometimes three-quarters of the way down the road – we tried this three days in a row – and then the shelling starts and while I can’t point the finger at who starts the shelling, we get the absolute assurances from the Ukraine government that it’s not them.” Flags on all Australian government buildings will be flown at half-mast on Thursday, and an interdenominational memorial service will be held at St Patrick’s cathedral in Melbourne from 10.30am.
(17) The hippocampus plays an essential role in the laying down of cognitive memories, the pathway to the frontal lobe being via the MD thalamus.
(18) Superior memory for the word list was found when the odor present during the relearning session was the same one that had been present at the time of initial learning, thereby demonstrating context-dependent memory.
(19) There were no age differences on tests of short-term memory.
(20) Future research and clinical evaluations should focus on the components of the learning and memory processes when the ramifications of temporal lobe ablations on cognitive function are studied.
Tenacious
Definition:
(a.) Holding fast, or inclined to hold fast; inclined to retain what is in possession; as, men tenacious of their just rights.
(a.) Apt to retain; retentive; as, a tenacious memory.
(a.) Having parts apt to adhere to each other; cohesive; tough; as, steel is a tenacious metal; tar is more tenacious than oil.
(a.) Apt to adhere to another substance; glutinous; viscous; sticking; adhesive.
(a.) Niggardly; closefisted; miserly.
(a.) Holding stoutly to one's opinion or purpose; obstinate; stubborn.
Example Sentences:
(1) The insurgency is still raging, and the president will have to inspire the security forces, choose generals to lead the fight, and plot tactics to beat a tenacious and experienced enemy.
(2) RSL trying to get their own flowing passing game going now, but the Timbers looking tenacious in midfield to break it up.
(3) Another factor is the decline of caste, the tenacious Indian social hierarchy which still determines the status of hundreds of millions.
(4) A tenacious Anabaena epiphyte was also discovered inhabiting the surfaces of root nodules.
(5) His family belonged to the Ghanchi caste, low down on the tenacious social hierarchy that still often defines status in India, and had little money.
(6) Another facilitating factor which is discussed is that blowing the nose may catch tenacious mucus which has partly passed through the ostium by the ciliary activity in the sinus.
(7) Malta continued to defend tenaciously after half-time and Italy struggled to create openings, despite their overwhelming dominance.
(8) However, attempts to cultivate M phi for morphological and functional studies have often been compromised because M phi adhere rapidly and tenaciously to cultureware.
(9) The exudate, apparent as early as 48 hours after inoculation, drained from the cervix as a tenacious, mucopurulent discharge for several days, then rapidly disappeared.
(10) Thirty-four patients, 21 male and 13 female, with chronic asthma and tenacious mucoid expectoration were studied regarding clinical parameters, PEF, airway resistance and sputum viscosity measured according to the n.m.r.
(11) Mark Lewis and Charlotte Harris, two tenacious solicitors, were followed around, together with their children.
(12) The cholla cacti are particularly tenacious in the manner in which the spines stay embedded in the skin.
(13) The action of complement is considered in terms of a more tenacious bond formed between effector and target cells.
(14) Two immunologically distinct proteins of 55 and 26 kd, which are tenaciously, but noncovalently associated with Oxytricha macronuclear DNA termini, have been purified.
(15) So they fought tenaciously, first over prices and then over privatisation.
(16) But the Justice Department attorney Ron Wiltsie, who impugned Xenakis’s credentials in tenacious cross-examination, said Dhiab had committed “five assaults since April 2014”.
(17) The observation that glucose phosphates bind to the Li+ complex of phosphoglucomutase some 900 times more tenaciously than to the corresponding Mg2+ complex could provide a partial rationale for the lack of reactivity of the Le+ form of the enzyme.
(18) "For rural areas, farmers, dalits (those at the bottom of India's tenacious social hierarchy), weak and the pained, this government is for them.
(19) [Small Talk, like the all-action investigative journalist that it is, tenaciously refuses to let the question go] And you're other half, she's an Irish pool international?
(20) Isis will then be reduced to what it once was: a very brutal and tenacious Iraqi militant organisation.