| 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. |
| 8. | to record something; make a 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.
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| 23. | 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,
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| 27. | on record,
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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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