What's the difference between remember and retention?

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?

Retention


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of retaining, or the state of being ratined.
  • (n.) The power of retaining; retentiveness.
  • (n.) That which contains something, as a tablet; a //// of preserving impressions.
  • (n.) The act of withholding; retraint; reserve.
  • (n.) Place of custody or confinement.
  • (n.) The right of withholding a debt, or of retaining property until a debt due to the person claiming the right be duly paid; a lien.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Estimates of potential for gastrointestinal side effects using the rat enteropooling assay and in vivo monkey effects indicate that diarrhea will be substantially reduced with retention of uterine stimulating potency.
  • (2) Retention of platelets from whole blood on glass beads was performed by the method of Bowie.
  • (3) The cis isomer was retained longer in liver, particularly in mitochondria, but had low retention in that portion of the endoplasmic reticulum isolated as the rough membrane fraction.
  • (4) Thus, brain NE levels after training were not predictive of retention performance in amygdala-implanted or -stimulated animals.
  • (5) The intent of this study was to investigate, by three-dimensional photoelastic analysis, the stress transmission that occurs with four commonly used retentive systems.
  • (6) We have investigated some of the factors which affect the retention times of these substances in reversed-phase HPLC on columns of 5-micron octadecylsilyl silica.
  • (7) Studies were performed to characterize the determinants of proximal tubule ammonia entry (and retention) in vivo.
  • (8) Long-distanced urethrocystopexy which permits to avoid an unwanted increase of outflow resistance with following retention of urine should be preferred.
  • (9) From a total of 200 PRBB's with different designs and retention systems, 152 were selected for this analysis.
  • (10) The absorption of zinc from meals based on 60 g of rye, barley, oatmeal, triticale or whole wheat was studied by use of extrinsic labelling with 65Zn and measurement of the whole-body retention of the radionuclide.
  • (11) Nitrogen retention was curvilinear in relation to metabolic live weight (kg0.75) in both series.
  • (12) Retention of iron from an RKB test meal was increased from 69.6 to 73% when about 90% of the extractable tannins were removed, but the difference was not statistically significant.
  • (13) --The influence of the digestibility of the energy in the ration on the energetic retention effect of BFC is small.
  • (14) In the absence of adequate data exclusively from studies of inhaled particles in people, the results of inhalation studies using laboratory animals are necessary to estimate particle retention in exposed people.
  • (15) The retention of critical care nurses is an important priority of nursing administration.
  • (16) Baseline evaluation revealed that 17 (32%) patients had high turnover (HTOP), and 36 (68%) normal turnover osteoporosis (NTOP) as assessed by measurement of whole body retention (WBR) of 99mTc-methylene diphosphonate.
  • (17) In darkness, raising the concentration of K in the fluid of perfusion gives an increase of the efflux of (86)Rb and increasing the extracellular concentration of Ca yields a retention.
  • (18) Alveolar deposition, however, assessed in terms of particle retention at 24 hours, was significantly (p less than 0.01) less in the smokers.
  • (19) This provides unequivocal evidence that partitioning is the dominant form of retention for small nonpolar solutes.
  • (20) A training device is used in conjunction with an exercise program to teach muscle control for retention of a mandibular denture.