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doc⋅u⋅ment

  [n. dok-yuh-muhnt; v. dok-yuh-ment]
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–noun
1. a written or printed paper furnishing information or evidence, as a passport, deed, bill of sale, or bill of lading; a legal or official paper.
2. any written item, as a book, article, or letter, esp. of a factual or informative nature.
3. a computer data file.
4. Archaic. evidence; proof.
–verb (used with object)
5. to furnish with documents.
6. to furnish with references, citations, etc., in support of statements made: a carefully documented biography.
7. to support by documentary evidence: to document a case.
8. Nautical. to provide (a vessel) with a certificate giving particulars concerning nationality, ownership, tonnage, dimensions, etc.
9. Obsolete. to instruct.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME (< AF) < L documentum example (as precedent, warning, etc.), equiv. to doc- (s. of docēre to teach) + -u- (var. of -i- -i- before labials) + -mentum -ment

Related forms:
doc⋅u⋅ment⋅a⋅ble  [dok-yuh-men-tuh-buhl, dok-yuh-men-] , adjective
doc⋅u⋅ment⋅er, noun

Synonyms:
6. corroborate, verify, substantiate, validate.
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doc·u·ment   (dŏk'yə-mənt)   
n.  
    1. A written or printed paper that bears the original, official, or legal form of something and can be used to furnish decisive evidence or information.
    2. Something, such as a recording or a photograph, that can be used to furnish evidence or information.
    3. A writing that contains information.
    4. Computer Science A piece of work created with an application, as by a word processor.
    5. Computer Science A computer file that is not an executable file and contains data for use by applications.
  2. Something, especially a material substance such as a coin bearing a revealing symbol or mark, that serves as proof or evidence.
tr.v.   (-měnt') doc·u·ment·ed, doc·u·ment·ing, doc·u·ments
  1. To furnish with a document or documents.
  2. To support (an assertion or claim, for example) with evidence or decisive information.
  3. To support (statements in a book, for example) with written references or citations; annotate.

[Middle English, precept, from Old French, from Latin documentum, example, proof, from docēre, to teach; see dek- in Indo-European roots.]
doc'u·ment'al (-měn'tl) adj., doc'u·ment'er n.
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