Memorial vs. Memory

Memorialnoun

A structure, such as a monument, intended to celebrate the memory of a person or event.

Memorialnoun

A service of remembrance or commemoration.

Memorialnoun

(legal) a statement of facts set out in the form of a petition to a person in authority, a court or tribunal, a government, etc.

Memorialadjective

Serving as a remembrance of someone or something; commemorative.

Memorialadjective

Contained in the memory.

Memorialadjective

Mnemonic; assisting the memory.

Memorialadjective

Serving to preserve remembrance; commemorative; as, a memorial building.

Memorialadjective

Contained in memory; as, a memorial possession.

Memorialadjective

Mnemonic; assisting the memory.

Memorialnoun

Anything intended to preserve the memory of a person or event; something which serves to keep something else in remembrance; a monument.

Memorialnoun

A memorandum; a record.

Memorialnoun

A written representation of facts, addressed to the government, or to some branch of it, or to a society, etc., - often accompanied with a petition.

Memorialnoun

Memory; remembrance.

Memorialnoun

A species of informal state paper, much used in negotiation.

Memorialnoun

a recognition of meritorious service

Memorialnoun

a written statement of facts submitted in conjunction with a petition to an authority

Memorialnoun

a structure erected to commemorate persons or events

Memorialnoun

a statue or structure established to remind people of a person or event

Memorialnoun

intended to commemorate someone or something

Memorialnoun

a statement of facts, especially as the basis of a petition

Memorialnoun

a record or memoir

Memorial

A memorial is an object which serves as a focus for the memory or the commemoration of something, usually an influential, deceased person or a historical, tragic event. Popular forms of memorials include landmark objects or works of art such as sculptures, statues or fountains and parks.

Memorynoun

(uncountable) The ability of the brain to record information or impressions with the facility of recalling them later at will.

Memorynoun

A record of a thing or an event stored and available for later use by the organism.

Memorynoun

(computing) The part of a computer that stores variable executable code or data (RAM) or unalterable executable code or default data (ROM).

Memorynoun

The time within which past events can be or are remembered.

Memorynoun

which returns to its original shape when heated

Memorynoun

(obsolete) A memorial.

Memorynoun

A term of venery for a social group of elephants, normally called a herd.

Memorynoun

The faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of previous thoughts, impressions, or events.

Memorynoun

The reach and positiveness with which a person can remember; the strength and trustworthiness of one's power to reach and represent or to recall the past; as, his memory was never wrong.

Memorynoun

The actual and distinct retention and recognition of past ideas in the mind; remembrance; as, in memory of youth; memories of foreign lands.

Memorynoun

The time within which past events can be or are remembered; as, within the memory of man.

Memorynoun

Something, or an aggregate of things, remembered; hence, character, conduct, etc., as preserved in remembrance, history, or tradition; posthumous fame; as, the war became only a memory.

Memorynoun

A memorial.

Memorynoun

something that is remembered;

Memorynoun

the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered;

Memorynoun

the power of retaining and recalling past experience;

Memorynoun

an electronic memory device;

Memorynoun

the area of cognitive psychology that studies memory processes;

Memory

Memory is the faculty of the brain by which data or information is encoded, stored, and retrieved when needed. It is the retention of information over time for the purpose of influencing future action.