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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.
EXPANDto set down or register in some permanent form, as on a seismograph.
verb (used without object)
8.
to record something; make a record.
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noun rec·ord
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.
EXPANDa 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, especially 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.
COLLAPSELaw.
a.
the commitment to writing, as authentic evidence, of something having legal importance, especially 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 rec·ord
Idioms23.
making or affording a record.
24.
surpassing or superior to all others: a record year for automobile sales.
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.) Middle English recorden < Old French recorder < Latin recordārī to remember, recollect (re- re- + cord- (stem of cors) heart + -ārī infinitive ending); (noun) Middle English record(e) < Old French, derivative of recorder; compare Medieval Latin recordum
1175–1225; 1875–80 for def. 17; (v.) Middle English recorden < Old French recorder < Latin recordārī to remember, recollect (re- re- + cord- (stem of cors) heart + -ārī infinitive ending); (noun) Middle English record(e) < Old French, derivative of recorder; compare Medieval Latin recordum
Related forms
re·cord·a·ble, adjective
rec·ord·less, adjective
un·re·cord·a·ble, adjective
well-re·cord·ed, adjective
Synonyms
1. register, enroll, enter, note. 11. chronicle, history, journal; note, memorandum.
1. register, enroll, enter, note. 11. chronicle, history, journal; note, memorandum.
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Word Origin & History
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
EXPANDsports, etc." is from 1883. Phrase on the record is from 1900; adv. phrase off the record "confidentially" is attested from 1933.
COLLAPSE
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Medical Dictionary
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.
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.
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