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  • verb Present participle of memorise.

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Examples

  • But memorising is a mixed blessing, for the one thing one mustn’t do while engaged on the Princess border, is lose concentration.

    Jean's Knitting Jean 2009

  • But memorising is a mixed blessing, for the one thing one mustn’t do while engaged on the Princess border, is lose concentration.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Jean 2009

  • Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) brain scans, they measured the brain activity of adults before and after a working-memory training programme, which involved tasks such as memorising the positions of a series of dots on a grid.

    - Boing Boing 2005

  • Using functional magnetic resonance imaging fMRI brain scans, they measured the brain activity of adults before and after a working-memory training programme, which involved tasks such as memorising the positions of a series of dots on a grid.

    Mind Hacks: May 2005 Archives 2005

  • Using functional magnetic resonance imaging fMRI brain scans, they measured the brain activity of adults before and after a working-memory training programme, which involved tasks such as memorising the positions of a series of dots on a grid.

    Mind Hacks: New Scientist on brain optimisation 2005

  • The operator is able to index the machine in various positions, "memorising" the pouring cycle for automatic repetition.

    R&D Mag - News 2010

  • Fifty mental athletes competed all day in the 13th annual championship in lower Manhattan that included events such as memorising the names of 99 people and their pictures, a 50-line poem in free verse and over 100 single numbers in the right order.

    AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories 2010

  • Even if the things you're memorising sound very clever, it doesn't mean a thing if the assessment is just "memorise these things and regurgitate them" - often the facts are memorised and regurgitated but not understood at a deep level so the student is unable to use them in practice, so nothing at all has been achieved.

    Meeja studies Norfolk Blogger 2009

  • If Media Studies is just about memorising facts like this, it's rubbish.

    Meeja studies Norfolk Blogger 2009

  • This is the problem with a lot of "soft option" subjects - they are essentially about memorising, this can be passed very easily.

    Meeja studies Norfolk Blogger 2009

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