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Synonyms

re⋅cord

[v. ri-kawrd; n., adj. rek-erd]

–verb (used with object)

1.	to set down in writing or the like, as for the purpose of preserving evidence.

2.	to cause to be set down or registered: to record one's vote.

3.	to state or indicate: He recorded his protest, but it was disregarded.

4.	to serve to relate or to tell of: The document records that the battle took place six years earlier.

5.	to set down or register in some permanent form, as on a seismograph.

6.	to set down, register, or fix by characteristic marks, incisions, magnetism, etc., for the purpose of reproduction by a phonograph or magnetic reproducer.

7.	to make a recording of: The orchestra recorded the 6th Symphony.

–verb (used without object)

8.	to record something; make a record.

–noun record

9.	an act of recording.

10.	the state of being recorded, as in writing.

11.	an account in writing or the like preserving the memory or knowledge of facts or events.

12.	information or knowledge preserved in writing or the like.

13.	a report, list, or aggregate of actions or achievements: He made a good record in college. The ship has a fine sailing record.

14.	a legally documented history of criminal activity: They discovered that the suspect had a record.

15.	something or someone serving as a remembrance; memorial: Keep this souvenir as a record of your visit.

16.	the tracing, marking, or the like, made by a recording instrument.

17.	something on which sound or images have been recorded for subsequent reproduction, as a grooved disk that is played on a phonograph or an optical disk for recording sound (audiodisk) or images (videodisk). Compare compact disk.

18.	the highest or best rate, amount, etc., ever attained, esp. in sports: to hold the record for home runs; to break the record in the high jump.

19.	Sports. the standing of a team or individual with respect to contests won, lost, and tied.

20.	an official writing intended to be preserved.

21.	Computers. a group of related fields, or a single field, treated as a unit and comprising part of a file or data set, for purposes of input, processing, output, or storage by a computer.

22.

Law.

a.	the commitment to writing, as authentic evidence, of something having legal importance, esp. as evidence of the proceedings or verdict of a court.

b.	evidence preserved in this manner.

c.	an authentic or official written report of proceedings of a court of justice.

–adjective record

23.	making or affording a record.

24.	surpassing or superior to all others: a record year for automobile sales.

—Idioms

25.	go on record, to issue a public statement of one's opinion or stand: He went on record as advocating immediate integration.

26.

off the record,

a.	not intended for publication; unofficial; confidential: The President's comment was strictly off the record.

b.	not registered or reported as a business transaction; off the books.

27.

on record,

a.	existing as a matter of public knowledge; known.

b.	existing in a publication, document, file, etc.: There was no birth certificate on record.

Origin:
1175–1225; 1875–80 for def. 17; (v.) ME recorden < OF recorder < L recordārī to remember, recollect (re- re- + cord- (s. of cors) heart + -ārī inf. ending); (n.) ME record(e) < OF, deriv. of recorder; cf. ML recordum

Related forms:

re⋅cord⋅a⋅ble, adjective

rec⋅ord⋅less, adjective

Synonyms:
1. register, enroll, enter, note. 11. chronicle, history, journal; note, memorandum.

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re·cord (rĭ-kôrd')

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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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.

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.

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.

Language Translation for : record

Spanish: constancia (escrita); archivos; registro,

German: die Aufzeichnung,

Japanese: 記録

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record (v.)

c.1225, "to get by heart," from O.Fr. recorder "repeat, recite, report," from L. recordari "remember, call to mind," from re- "restore" + cor (gen. cordis) "heart" (as the metaphoric seat of memory, cf. learn by heart); see heart. Meaning "set down in writing" first attested c.1300; that of "put sound or pictures on disks, tape, etc." is from 1892.

record (n.)

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.

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

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

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

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

n. rec·ord (rěk'ərd)

An account, as of information or facts, set down especially in writing as a means of preserving knowledge.
A medical record.
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.
The known history of performance, activities, or achievement.
A collection of related, often adjacent items of computer data, treated as a unit.

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.
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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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