Tra từ memory - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

mem·ory [memory memories] BrE [ˈmeməri] NAmE [ˈmeməri] (pl. mem·ories) noun

ABILITY TO REMEMBER
1. countable, uncountable ~ (for sth) your ability to remember things
• I have a bad memory for names.
• People have short memories (= they soon forget).
•He had a long memory for people who had disappointed him.
•She can recite the whole poem from memory.
•He suffered loss of memory for weeks after the accident.
•Are you sure? Memory can play tricks on you.
•I quickly committed the number of the car to memory (= learned and remembered it).
•The drugs had a severe effect on her short-term memory.
2. uncountable the period of time that sb is able to remember events
•There hasn't been peace in the country in/within my memory.
• It was the worst storm in recent memory.
• This hasn't happened in living memory (= nobody alive now can remember it happening).

STH YOU REMEMBER
3. countable a thought of sth that you remember from the past
Syn: ↑recollection
•childhood memories
• I have vivid memories of my grandparents.
• What is your earliest memory?
•The photos bring back lots of good memories.
4. uncountable (formal)what is remembered about sb after they have died
•Her memory lives on (= we still remember her).
•Their behaviour insults the memory of those who died for this country.

COMPUTING
5. countable, uncountable the part of a computer where information is stored; the amount of space in a computer for storing information
• Have you got enough memory available to run the program?
see also ↑RAM
more at be etched on your heart/memory/mind at ↑etch, jog sb's memory at ↑jog _v., refresh your/sb's memory at ↑refresh, have a memory/mind like a sieve at ↑sieve _n.
Idioms: if memory serves me well/correctly ▪ ↑in memory of somebody ▪ ↑the memory of somebody

Word Origin:
Middle English: from Old French memorie, from Latin memoria, from memor ‘mindful, remembering’.

Thesaurus:
memory noun C, U
•I have a bad memory for names.
•happy memories of childhood
recall • • remniscence • • mind • |formal recollection • • remembrance •
a memory/remniscence/recollection of sb/sth
in memory/remembrance of sb/sth
a vague/vivid/clear memory/recollection
have a …memory/recall/recollection