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🧠 To recall ⏰ To keep in mind 🎁 To honor 🙏 To mention favorably 💾 To save information
to remember

to remember

24 3.0
To save a user's details so a website shows them next time
  • verb
  • /rɪˈmɛmbər/
  • Specialized
translation icon : guardar
  • The app is designed to remember user preferences to enhance future interactions.

So our our goal is to build a system that can remember but remember at the edge.

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Examples

  • Each technology remembers the previous one by turning it into art.

    Academic text (2000)

  • They took all the music's playback stuff off of that first screen, but it remembers which screen you're on.

  • So you have to remember to convert to pH.

  • Computers are good at remembering things, but not so good at being sensible.

    Academic text (2010)

  • Would customers like to have their orders remembered for automatic fulfillment every week or so?

    Academic text (2010)

  • LastPass is helping the world remember their passwords and better manage their online life.

    Blog text (13)

  • My laptop can remember my login details every time I visit a website.

  • With this feature, you can set your browser to remember your favorites for easy access later.

Synonyms

to save
vsto remember
  • Specialized
211 1.3

Record data on a computer to use later

keeps user preferences and restores them automatically in future interactions
to retain
vsto remember
47 3.2

To keep facts or information in your memory

stores user choices in the system for automatic future use not in human memory
to persist
vsto remember
  • Specialized
1 6.8

To save data so it is still there after a computer or phone stops

keeps user preferences automatically available later but may not survive restarts

Antonyms

to forget
  • Specialized
20 4.1

Remove saved passwords or network names so the device no longer remembers them

Phrasal Verbs

to remember oneself
6.8

To calm down and behave politely again after briefly losing control

How Long

to archive
30 3.9
to preserve
496 3.4
to retain
47 3.2
to remember
  • Specialized
24 3.0
to save
  • Specialized
211 1.3
cache
  • Specialized
19 6.1

Surface Forms

remember infinitive
remembered past
remembered past participle
remembering present participle
remembers third person singular

Etymology

The word remember comes from the parts re- meaning 'again' and memor meaning 'mindful', the same root as memory and memo. So when a website 'remembers' your settings, it is like the computer keeping them in its 'memory' so they are ready next time.