Document
['dɒkjʊm(ə)nt]
Definition
(noun.) anything serving as a representation of a person's thinking by means of symbolic marks.
(noun.) writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature).
(noun.) a written account of ownership or obligation.
(verb.) support or supply with references; 'Can you document your claims?'.
(verb.) record in detail; 'The parents documented every step of their child's development'.
Editor: Louise--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) That which is taught or authoritatively set forth; precept; instruction; dogma.
(n.) An example for instruction or warning.
(n.) An original or official paper relied upon as the basis, proof, or support of anything else; -- in its most extended sense, including any writing, book, or other instrument conveying information in the case; any material substance on which the thoughts of men are represented by any species of conventional mark or symbol.
(v. t.) To teach; to school.
(v. t.) To furnish with documents or papers necessary to establish facts or give information; as, a a ship should be documented according to the directions of law.
Typed by Cyril
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Paper, writing.
Checked by Adelaide
Definition
n. a paper containing information or the proof of anything.—v.t. to furnish with documents: to support or prove by documents.—adjs. Document′al Document′ary relating to or found in documents.—n. Documentā′tion preparation or use of documentary evidence and authorities—used in realistic fiction by the school of Zola of faithful reproduction of the records real or supposed of actual lives (the so-called document humain).—Documentary hypothesis the hypothesis that the Pentateuch consists of two or more originally distinct documents.
Edited by Craig
Examples
- MY limits are inscribed on that Document. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Now, Mr. Trelawney Hope, I should be much obliged if you would tell me exactly the circumstances under which this document disappeared. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Recently one of the writers had occasion to present to him a long typewritten document of upward of thirty pages for his approval. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I announced on beginning it that this narrative would be a remarkable document. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The other clauses contained in that document were of a formal kind, and need not be recited here. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Her face cleared up as she read the document, however. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He said that he would return my letter if I would bring him a certain document which he described in my husband's despatch-box. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- But now, how do you arrange your documents? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Have you lost any documents before? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Twelfth Century Documents Written on Linen Paper still Extant. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Archer withdrew reluctantly with the unwelcome documents. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Attending court the other day--I attend it regularly, with my documents--I taxed him with it, and he almost confessed. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- These markings and fossils in the rocks and the rocks themselves are our first historical documents. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The appeal on both sides was to literary documents. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- True to the best English traditions, the Congress documented its attitude by a Declaration of Rights. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typist: Ted