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re·cord Audio Help   (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.
1. To register (sound or images) in permanent form by mechanical or electrical means for reproduction.
2. 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)

1. An account, as of information or facts, set down especially in writing as a means of preserving knowledge.
2. Something on which such an account is based.
3. Something that records: a fossil record.
4. An account officially written and preserved as evidence or testimony.
5. An account of judicial or legislative proceedings written and preserved as evidence.
6. The documents or volumes containing such evidence.
7. A disk designed to be played on a phonograph.
8. 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
1. An account officially written and preserved as evidence or testimony.
2. An account of judicial or legislative proceedings written and preserved as evidence.
3. The documents or volumes containing such evidence.
4. A disk designed to be played on a phonograph.
5. Something, such as magnetic tape, on which sound or visual images have been recorded.
1. A disk designed to be played on a phonograph.
2. 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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recorded
adjective
1.	set down or registered in a permanent form especially on film or tape for reproduction; "recorded music" [ant: live]
2.	(of securities) having the owner's name entered in a register; "recorded holders of a stock"

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