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Jan 25, 2015 · down memory lane Looking back on the past. Often put in a nostalgic way, this term may have originated as the title of a popular song of 1924, "Memory Lane," words by Bud de Sylva, and music by Larry Spier and Con Conrad. It was revived in the film In Society (1944), starring [Bud] Abbott and [Lou] Costello.
A technical definition of involuntary memory, from the first source, above, is: Involuntary memory, also known as involuntary explicit memory, involuntary conscious memory, involuntary aware memory, and most commonly, involuntary autobiographical memory, is a subcomponent of memory that occurs when cues encountered in everyday life evoke recollections of the past without conscious effort.
Jun 17, 2017 · 2. From the unfairly downvoted answer by Carrie Villalobos: A lane is a small road. So, it would be similar to saying she rides her bike every evening down the road. Up and down can mean a difference in height, or it can mean closer to or farther from a point. In this case "down the lane" might mean that as she is riding it is farther away from ...
1. A memory hog is something that unfairly and unnecessarily keeps lots of memory for itself. Consider other usages of "hog" in English, such as: lane hog: someone who drives down the middle lane on a motorway, wasting the inside lane. "he's hogging the bathroom": spending too much time maybe doing his hair; meanwhile nobody else can use the ...
Apr 21, 2016 · For some reason they were nicknamed memory holes. All conflicting evidence goes down the memory hole, as does any paper evidence of Winston's work to rewrite the past. So the memory hole is the place that all evidence of contradiction goes to be destroyed. In 1984, it's evidence that the state finds inconvenient. As a metaphor, it's anything ...
Feb 12, 2018 · 1. In the first sentence, you have to say 'dedicated to the memory of' as the verb 'to dedicate' uses the preposition 'to'. In the second sentence, you could say either, but - in my opinion - the meaning is very subtly different. 'To the memory of my father' sounds as if you decided to dedicate the book to your father prior to having started to ...
Feb 4, 2011 · Stack Exchange Network. Stack Exchange network consists of 183 Q&A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers.
Oct 10, 2012 · Two of these are. When you say good memory, it is not clear as to whether you are referring to the effective quality of your recall faculty (meaning 1) or the affective quality of what is being recalled (meaning 2). When you use the plural form, memories, the second meaning is clear since the first meaning is almost always singular.
Jan 8, 2015 · There are a number of words that have a more personal attachment to them, such as . keepsake: anything kept, or given to be kept, as a token of friendship or affection; remembrance.
Jun 21, 2011 · The name "operad" is a word that I coined myself, spending a week thinking about nothing else. Besides having a nice ring to it, the name is meant to bring to mind both operations and monads. Incidentally, I persuaded MacLane to discard the term "triple" in favor of "monad" in his book "Categories for the working mathematician", which was being ...
