What's the difference between misremember and remember?
Misremember
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) To mistake in remembering; not to remember correctly.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results were similar to those of Jones and thus contradict the hypothesis that misremembering of the Queen's head is caused by a leftward drawing bias.
(2) It’s easy to drop things, misremember orders, or entirely forget customers who have been waiting for half an hour.
(3) I had come here in prayer, wishing that my memory had misremembered.
(4) I think he's just misremembered, as this has never been the case," wrote Banks.
(5) Take Harold Macmillan's much-recalled, and often misremembered, Night of the Long Knives in July 1962.
(6) Far from being a study in existential disaffection, as I had so badly misremembered, The Plague is about courage, about engagement, about paltriness and generosity, about small heroism and large cowardice, and about all kinds of profoundly humanist problems, such as love and goodness, happiness and mutual connection.
(7) Children may remember even salient stimuli and actions more poorly than adults do, but there was no evidence that children misremembered touches that did not occur.
(8) At the inquest, the Carrickfergus coach remembered that Ben stood up on his own, one of a series of misremembered facts that Peter and Karen disproved by showing the video.
(9) Second, in addition to this generally weak level of remembering, an instance of systematic misremembering was consistently observed.
(10) More broadly stated, such approaches have been useful for discovering the reasons that gender cognitions are inaccurate--why some information is misperceived, misremembered, and selectively learned.
(11) Leftward misremembering was not observed in this case.
(12) I rang a friend of my mother's to check, in case I'd somehow misremembered it.
(13) This is often paraphrased or misremembered as "The poor are always with us," a sentence that returns more than half a billion Google hits.
(14) The studies investigated natural errors in which people called a familiar person by the wrong name, misremembered with whom they had interacted, or mistakenly directed an action at an inappropriate person.
(15) It was reported by Jones (1990) that the design of British coins is systematically misremembered.
(16) We found that subjects misremembered the spring as either more compressed or less compressed as predicted by the implied dynamics of the display sequence.
(17) In addition, durations marked by a nonarbitrary ending were more accurately remembered than those marked by an arbitrary ending which, in fact, were misremembered as shorter than their actual duration.
(18) The general human tendency to misremember details would have been exacerbated.
(19) Over and again, the defence teams had the resources to find some helpful stick with which to beat a potentially dangerous witness – a misremembered date, a forgotten detail, even on one occasion the fact that the witness had once had coffee with Nick Davies from the Guardian.
(20) Empire 2.0 is a fanciful vision of the future based on a distorted misremembering of the past.
Remember
Definition:
(v. t.) To have ( a notion or idea) come into the mind again, as previously perceived, known, or felt; to have a renewed apprehension of; to bring to mind again; to think of again; to recollect; as, I remember the fact; he remembers the events of his childhood; I cannot remember dates.
(v. t.) To be capable of recalling when required; to keep in mind; to be continually aware or thoughtful of; to preserve fresh in the memory; to attend to; to think of with gratitude, affection, respect, or any other emotion.
(v. t.) To put in mind; to remind; -- also used reflexively and impersonally.
(v. t.) To mention.
(v. t.) To recall to the mind of another, as in the friendly messages, remember me to him, he wishes to be remembered to you, etc.
(v. i.) To execise or have the power of memory; as, some remember better than others.
Example Sentences:
(1) I'm married to an Irish woman, and she remembers in the atmosphere stirred up in the 1970s people spitting on her.
(2) I remember talking to an investment banker about what it felt like in the City before the closure of Lehman Brothers.
(3) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
(4) Do [MPs] remember the madness of those advertisements that talked of the cool fresh mountain air of menthol cigarettes?
(5) "I was eight in 1983, but I remember a plane that flew low over our Bulawayo suburb and army loud-hailers screaming: 'You are surrounded.'
(6) In addition, PDBu-treated subjects showed signs of having remembered the location of the platform better than controls when tested 24 h later.
(7) He captivated me, but not just because of his intellect; it was for his wisdom, his psychological insights and his sense of humour that I will always remember our dinners together.
(8) It is emphasized that the knowledge of the behavior and regulation of SO is incomplete and that this should be remembered when criteria for SOD are applied.
(9) 5.13pm BST "As I remember September 11, 2012, it was a routine day at our embassy," Hicks begins.
(10) Remember, if he did seize group power and dispose of the Independent , he'd still be boss of the rest of INM: 200 or so papers and magazines around the world, dominant voices in Australasia, South Africa, India and Ireland itself, 100 million readers a week.
(11) I'll admit to not having realised that more than £100bn would be committed to Trident – I half-remembered reading that it would cost £20bn, so went online, only to discover that the higher figure checks out .
(12) If they fall, they fall; and when they do, that is the part people remember.
(13) 11.57pm BST "Can anyone remember anything, anything at all, from the debates four years ago?
(14) Using the Italian I distantly remember from my year abroad in Florence as a student (mi chiama Hadley!
(15) Also remember that each time you apply for a loan your credit record is checked, which will leave a footprint of the search.
(16) Your gas bills should give a figure for your usage each quarter – but remember you use very little in the summer months, so you'll need to add up the total across all four quarters.
(17) But remember that you have chosen one of the toughest, most competitive industries around!
(18) I remember seeing the film and walking on air as I emerged in Leicester Square, recklessly crossing roads as if no car could damage me.
(19) He said that he didn't remember where that company was based.
(20) "And remember," she said, "who first exposed the scandal of tax avoidance?