What's the difference between recollect and remember?

Recollect


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To recover or recall the knowledge of; to bring back to the mind or memory; to remember.
  • (v. t.) Reflexively, to compose one's self; to recover self-command; as, to recollect one's self after a burst of anger; -- sometimes, formerly, in the perfect participle.
  • (n.) A friar of the Strict Observance, -- an order of Franciscans.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Analytic therapy aims at converting transference as repetition of behaviour into recollection.
  • (2) Few of us will have reliable memories from before three or four years of age, and recollections from before that time need to be treated with scepticism.
  • (3) Back to article (4) Here I asked him about Barry White, a Desert Island Disc choice of his in 1978, which he had no recollection of.
  • (4) The television commercial, merely demanding a passive involvement of the participants, was less well remembered, and the magazine insert had the lowest recollection.
  • (5) Eckert said Mersiades, who is not named but is easy to identify from the summary report, provided “some useful information” but claimed “the evidence did not support its specific recollections and allegations” and “further undermined its own reliability” by speaking to the media.
  • (6) My recollections of the one execution I attended amount to memories of a ghastly, surrealistic encounter with justice.
  • (7) 50 yrs ago today, we set out to march from Selma to Montgomery to dramatize to the nation that people of color were denied the right to vote,” he wrote, before posting a series of photos and recollections from the day.
  • (8) Heaton’s recollections are heavy on understatement.
  • (9) Some speculations about the inner life of autistic children are advanced on the basis of his recollections.
  • (10) Compromise recollections, though seemingly more persuasive, are both rare and interpretable without postulating blend representations.
  • (11) – but Russell happily slips in and out of voices and lines from the movie, his recollections punctuated by wistful sighs.
  • (12) During his evidence, Clark will also challenge the recollection of Rob Whiteman, the agency's chief executive, who claimed that Clark had admitted to him that on "a number of occasions this year he authorised his staff to go further than ministerial instruction".
  • (13) David Henry, then head of investor relations, was “stunned” at the family’s concern about climate change, according to Goodwin’s recollection of events.
  • (14) A spokesman for Crosby said he had "absolutely no recollection" of using the phrase "fucking Muslims" and Johnson's office also said the London mayor had no recollection of this conversation.
  • (15) • With the funeral preparations now advanced, notables continue to share recollections of the baroness.
  • (16) This effect was observed with college students and amnesic patients, suggesting that word completion performance is mediated by implicit memory for new associations that is independent of explicit recollection.
  • (17) Amnesics' difficulty in recollecting events (and partially learned facts) from before the onset of their disease (retrograde amnesia) is explicable in terms of interference between current events and prior events in similar contexts in patients who are unduly controlled by their current context.
  • (18) Despite recognition that estimation of gestational age (GA) based on maternal recollection of the last normal menstrual period (LNMP) is fraught with error, it is not generally appreciated that the magnitude and direction of this error vary as a function of the LNMP estimate.
  • (19) This indicates that the motor zones of the cortex, including the frontal adversive fields, are intention zones, and the sensory zones reproduction, expectation, and recollection zones.
  • (20) With traditional techniques of quality improvement, the process was assessed, data were collected and statistically analyzed, changes were introduced, and data were recollected and analyzed.

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?