record

record
—n
1.	an account in permanent form, esp in writing, preserving knowledge or information about facts or events
2.	a written account of some transaction that serves as legal evidence of the transaction
3.	a written official report of the proceedings of a court of justice or legislative body, including the judgments given or enactments made
4.	anything serving as evidence or as a memorial: the First World War is a record of human folly
5.	(often plural) information or data on a specific subject collected methodically over a long period: weather records
6.	a.  the best or most outstanding amount, rate, height, etc, ever attained, as in some field of sport: an Olympic record; a world record; to break the record for the long jump
	b.  (as modifier): a record time
7.	the sum of one's recognized achievements, career, or performance: the officer has an excellent record
8.	a list of crimes of which an accused person has previously been convicted, which are known to the police but may only be disclosed to a court in certain circumstances
9.	have a record to be a known criminal; have a previous conviction or convictions
10.	gramophone record, Also called: disc a thin disc of a plastic material upon which sound has been recorded. Each side has a spiral groove, which undulates in accordance with the frequency and amplitude of the sound. Records were formerly made from a shellac-based compound but were later made from vinyl plastics
11.	the markings made by a recording instrument such as a seismograph
12.	computing a group of data or piece of information preserved as a unit in machine-readable form
13.	(in some computer languages) a data structure designed to allow the handling of groups of related pieces of information as though the group were a single entity
14.	for the record for the sake of a strict factual account
15.	go on record to state one's views publicly
16.	See off the record
17.	on record
	a.  stated in a public document
	b.  publicly known
18.	put the record straight, set the record straight to correct an error or misunderstanding
—vb
19.	to set down in some permanent form so as to preserve the true facts of: to record the minutes of a meeting
20.	to contain or serve to relate (facts, information, etc)
21.	to indicate, show, or register: his face recorded his disappointment
22.	to remain as or afford evidence of: these ruins record the life of the Romans in Britain
23.	(also intr) to make a recording of (music, speech, etc) for reproduction, or for later broadcasting
24.	(also intr) (of an instrument) to register or indicate (information) on a scale: the barometer recorded a low pressure
[C13: from Old French recorder to call to mind, from Latin recordārī to remember, from re- + cor heart]
re'cordable
—adj

record
EXPAND

c.1300; that of "put sound or pictures on disks, tape, etc." is from 1892.

record

c.1300, "testimony committed to writing," from O.Fr. record, from recorder "to record" (see record (v.)). Meaning "written account of some event" is from 1611. Meaning "disk on which sounds or images have been recorded" is first attested 1878. That of "best achievement in

sports, etc." is from 1883. Phrase on the record is from 1900; adv. phrase off the record "confidentially" is attested from 1933.

COLLAPSE

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.

record definition

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)

record

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