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re·cord       (rĭ-kôrd')  Pronunciation Key  v.   re·cord·ed, re·cord·ing, re·cords v.   tr. To set down for preservation in writing or other permanent form. To register or indicate: The clerk recorded the votes. To register (sound or images) in permanent form by mechanical or electrical means for reproduction. To register the words, sound, appearance, or performance of by such means: recorded the oldest townspeople on tape; recorded the violin concerto. v.   intr. To record something. n.   rec·ord (rěk'ərd) An account, as of information or facts, set down especially in writing as a means of preserving knowledge. Something on which such an account is based. Something that records: a fossil record. An account officially written and preserved as evidence or testimony. An account of judicial or legislative proceedings written and preserved as evidence. The documents or volumes containing such evidence. A disk designed to be played on a phonograph. Something, such as magnetic tape, on which sound or visual images have been recorded. Information or data on a particular subject collected and preserved: the coldest day on record. The known history of performance, activities, or achievement: your academic record; hampered by a police record. An unsurpassed measurement: a world record in weightlifting; a record for cold weather. Computer Science A collection of related, often adjacent items of data, treated as a unit. Law An account officially written and preserved as evidence or testimony. An account of judicial or legislative proceedings written and preserved as evidence. The documents or volumes containing such evidence. A disk designed to be played on a phonograph. Something, such as magnetic tape, on which sound or visual images have been recorded. A disk designed to be played on a phonograph. Something, such as magnetic tape, on which sound or visual images have been recorded. [Middle English recorden, from Old French recorder, from Latin recordārī, to remember : re-, re- + cor, cord-, heart; see kerd- in Indo-European roots.]

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record
noun
1.	anything (such as a document or a phonograph record or a photograph) providing permanent evidence of or information about past events; "the film provided a valuable record of stage techniques"
2.	sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove [syn: phonograph record]
3.	the number of wins versus losses and ties a team has had; "at 9-0 they have the best record in their league"
4.	the sum of recognized accomplishments; "the lawyer has a good record"; "the track record shows that he will be a good president"
5.	a compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone; "Al Smith used to say, 'Let's look at the record'"; "his name is in all the record books"
6.	an extreme attainment; the best (or worst) performance ever attested (as in a sport); "he tied the Olympic record"; "coffee production last year broke all previous records"; "Chicago set the homicide record"
7.	a document that can serve as legal evidence of a transaction; "they could find no record of the purchase"
8.	a list of crimes for which an accused person has been previously convicted; "he ruled that the criminal record of the defendant could not be disclosed to the court"; "the prostitute had a record a mile long" [syn: criminal record]
verb
1.	make a record of; set down in permanent form
2.	register electronically; "They recorded her singing" [ant: delete]
3.	indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments; "The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero"; "The gauge read 'empty'" [syn: read]
4.	be aware of; "Did you register any change when I pressed the button?"
5.	be or provide a memorial to a person or an event; "This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps"; "We memorialized the Dead" [syn: commemorate]

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record

see break the record; go on record; just for the record; off the record; set (the record) straight; track record.

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record re·cord (rĭ-kôrd')
v. re·cord·ed, re·cord·ing, re·cords

1. To set down for preservation in writing or other permanent form.
2. To register or indicate.

n. rec·ord (rěk'ərd)

1. An account, as of information or facts, set down especially in writing as a means of preserving knowledge.
2. A medical record.
3. In dentistry, a registration of desired jaw relations in a plastic material or on a device so that such relations may be transferred to an articulator.
4. The known history of performance, activities, or achievement.
5. A collection of related, often adjacent items of computer data, treated as a unit.

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Main Entry: re·cord
Pronunciation: ri-'kord
Function: transitive verb
1 : to put in a record
2 : to deposit or otherwise cause to be registered in the appropriate office as a record and notice of a title or interest in property <record a deed> <record a mortgage> —see also RECORDING ACT
3 : to cause (as sound, images, or data) to be registered on something in reproducible form <record a telephone conversation> intransitive verb : to record something

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Main Entry: rec·ord
Pronunciation: 're-k&rd
Function: noun
1 : the documentary account of something records>: as a : an official document that records the acts of a public body or officer b : an official copy of a document deposited with a designated officer c : the official set of papers used and generated in a proceeding record> d : documented evidence or history of one or more arrests or convictions —see also BUSINESS RECORDS EXCEPTION, PUBLIC RECORDS EXCEPTION
2 : something (as a disc or tape) on which images, sound, or data has been recorded—of record 1 : on the record of the court in connection with a particular proceeding of record>
2 : being documented or attested

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record data, database, programming
An ordered set of fields, usually stored contiguously. The term is used with similar meaning in several different contexts. In a file, a "record" probably has some fixed length, in contrast to a "line" which may have any length and is terminated by some End Of Line sequence). A database record is also called a "row". In a spreadsheet it is always called a "row". Some programming languages use the term to mean a type composed of fields of several other types (C calls this a "struct").
In all these cases, a record represents an entity with certain field values.
Fields may be of a fixed width (bits or characters) or they may be separated by a delimiter character, often comma (CSV) or HT (TSV).
In a database the list of values of a given field from all records is called a column.
(2002-03-22)

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Record

Re*cord"\ (r?*k?rd"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Recorded; p. pr. & vb. n. Recording.] [OE. recorden to repeat, remind, F. recorder, fr. L. recordari to remember; pref. re- re- + cor, cordis, the heart or mind. See Cordial, Heart.]

1. To recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate. [Obs.] "I it you record." --Chaucer.

2. To repeat; to recite; to sing or play. [Obs.]

They longed to see the day, to hear the lark Record her hymns, and chant her carols blest. --Fairfax.

3. To preserve the memory of, by committing to writing, to printing, to inscription, or the like; to make note of; to write or enter in a book or on parchment, for the purpose of preserving authentic evidence of; to register; to enroll; as, to record the proceedings of a court; to record historical events.

Those things that are recorded of him . . . are written in the chronicles of the kings. --1 Esd. i. 42.

To record a deed, mortgage, lease, etc., to have a copy of the same entered in the records of the office designated by law, for the information of the public.

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Record

Re*cord"\, v. i. 1. To reflect; to ponder. [Obs.]

Praying all the way, and recording upon the words which he before had read. --Fuller.

2. To sing or repeat a tune. [Obs.] --Shak.

Whether the birds or she recorded best. --W. Browne.

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Record

Rec"ord\ (r[e^]k"[~e]rd), n. [OF. recort, record, remembrance, attestation, record. See Record, v. t.]

1. A writing by which some act or event, or a number of acts or events, is recorded; a register; as, a record of the acts of the Hebrew kings; a record of the variations of temperature during a certain time; a family record.

2. Especially: (a) An official contemporaneous writing by which the acts of some public body, or public officer, are recorded; as, a record of city ordinances; the records of the receiver of taxes. (b) An authentic official copy of a document which has been entered in a book, or deposited in the keeping of some officer designated by law. (c) An official contemporaneous memorandum stating the proceedings of a court of justice; a judicial record. (d) The various legal papers used in a case, together with memoranda of the proceedings of the court; as, it is not permissible to allege facts not in the record.

3. Testimony; witness; attestation.

John bare record, saying. --John i. 32.

4. That which serves to perpetuate a knowledge of acts or events; a monument; a memorial.

5. That which has been, or might be, recorded; the known facts in the course, progress, or duration of anything, as in the life of a public man; as, a politician with a good or a bad record.

6. That which has been publicly achieved in any kind of competitive sport as recorded in some authoritative manner, as the time made by a winning horse in a race.

Court of record (pron. r?*k?rd" in Eng.), a court whose acts and judicial proceedings are written on parchment or in books for a perpetual memorial.

Debt of record, a debt which appears to be due by the evidence of a court of record, as upon a judgment or a cognizance.

Trial by record, a trial which is had when a matter of record is pleaded, and the opposite party pleads that there is no such record. In this case the trial is by inspection of the record itself, no other evidence being admissible. --Blackstone.

To beat, or break, the record (Sporting), to surpass any performance of like kind as authoritatively recorded; as, to break the record in a walking match.