17 Collocations that go with MEMORY

memory - collocations

Words that collocate with Memory
Memory is the ability to remember things, people, places etc. Memory is noun and there are many common words that are used along with memory to make collocations.

For example, we use bad memory to tell about the bad experiences, a good one is called a good memory or excellence memory. Short memory is used to describe person who can remember things for a short period of time and long memory is used in the other way around.

In this article we will learn the following collocations:
have a good/excellent memory, have a bad/poor/terrible/etc memory, have a, memory like a sieve, have a long memory, have a short memory, from memory ,lose your memory, short-term memory, long-term memory, remain/stay/be etched in your memory, if my memory serves me correctly/right

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Collocation: Memory

Memory is the ability to remember things, places, experiences and memory can be thought of in general terms as the use of past experience to affect or influence current behaviour.

Below are the list of collocations that usually go with murder.

1. have a good/excellent memory (v)
   Good memory
   I always have a good memory of Melbourne.
2. have a bad/poor/terrible/etc memory (v)
   Not very good memory
   She had a terrible memory of Vietnam war.
3. have a memory like a sieve (v)
   To have a very bad memory.
   I have a memory like a sieve, I forget things easily.
4. have a long memory (v)
   To be able to remember things for a long time.
   Those who have long memories will remember this story.
5. have a short memory (v)
   Only remember something for a short time, and soon forget it
   It is said that goldfish has a short memory, it can remember thing for just three seconds long. In recent research, it was proven that goldfish can remembers thing at least 5 months.
6. lose [someone's] memory (v)
   To lose the ability to remember things
   After the accident, he has totally lost his memory.
7. memory loss (n)
   The state of being unable to remember things
   Here are some of the most common things that can cause memory loss.
8. short-term memory (n)
   The ability to remember things that has just seen, heard, or experienced
   The first symptom of the disease is often short-term memory loss.
9. long-term memory (n)
   The ability to remember events that happened a long time ago
   Long-term memory  (LTM) is the final stage of the dual memory model proposed by Atkinson and Shiffrin, in which data can be stored for long periods of time.
10. from memory (phr)
    If you say something, such as a ​poem, or ​sing a ​song from memory, you ​speak or ​sing without ​looking at any words or ​music.
    The musician played the whole song from memory.
11. remain/stay/be etched in your memory (v)
    To be remembered for a long time
    The image has remained in my memory ever since..
12. if my memory serves me correctly/right (phr)
    Used to say that you are almost certain you have remembered correctly.
    If my memory serves me right, we need to be in Paris by next Wednesday.
13. happy/fond/childhood memories (n)
    Something that you remember from the past about a person, place, or experience that you are happy about/found of
    In my childhood memories, my school was not very far from my house.
    She told me that she had happy/fond memories of her first school.
14. photographic memory (v)
    Be able to remember every detail
    John has a photographic memory. He can remember every single detail of the scene.
15. vivid memories (n)
    A strong, clear images in the mind.
    The witness had the very vivid memories of what happened.
16. bring back memory (v)
    Something bring back your memory it make you remember thing again
    This photo bring back my memory of my experience in 9/11.
17. in memory of someone
    if something is done or made in memory of someone, it is done to remember them and remind other people of them after they have died.
    A statue was build in memory of those who died in the world war II.

Reading Resource:
- http://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/memory
- http://www.human-memory.net/types_long.html
- http://thegoldfishtank.com/goldfish-info/myth/goldfish-memory-three-second-memory-myth/