Record
['rekɔːd] or ['rɛkərd]
Definition
(noun.) the sum of recognized accomplishments; 'the lawyer has a good record'; 'the track record shows that he will be a good president'.
(noun.) an extreme attainment; the best (or worst) performance ever attested (as in a sport); 'he tied the Olympic record'; 'coffee production last year broke all previous records'; 'Chicago set the homicide record'.
(noun.) a compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone; 'Al Smith used to say, `Let's look at the record''; 'his name is in all the record books'.
(noun.) anything (such as a document or a phonograph record or a photograph) providing permanent evidence of or information about past events; 'the film provided a valuable record of stage techniques'.
(noun.) a document that can serve as legal evidence of a transaction; 'they could find no record of the purchase'.
(noun.) the number of wins versus losses and ties a team has had; 'at 9-0 they have the best record in their league'.
(verb.) register electronically; 'They recorded her singing'.
(verb.) make a record of; set down in permanent form.
(verb.) be aware of; 'Did you register any change when I pressed the button?'.
Edited by Bradley--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate.
(v. t.) To repeat; to recite; to sing or play.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. i.) To reflect; to ponder.
(v. i.) To sing or repeat a tune.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) An official contemporaneous memorandum stating the proceedings of a court of justice; a judicial record.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) Testimony; witness; attestation.
(v. t.) That which serves to perpetuate a knowledge of acts or events; a monument; a memorial.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) 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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Register, enroll, chronicle, note, journalize, make an entry of, take down, jot down, make a memorandum of.
n. [1]. Register, account, note, chronicle, minute, memorandum, memoir.[2]. Vestige, trace, memorial.
Inputed by Estella
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Archives, annals, chronicles, proceedings,[See ANNALS]
SYN:Register, enter, note, chronicle
ANT:Obliviate, silentiate, suppress
SYN:Registry, entry, enrolment, list, index, catalogue, register, schedule, roll,scroll, enumeration, inventory, muniment, instrument, archive, memorandum,remembrance
ANT:Obliteration, oblivion, nonregistration, desuetude, obsolescence,immemoriality, disremembrance
Checked by Joseph
Definition
v.t. to write anything formally to preserve evidence of it: to bear witness to: to register or enrol: to celebrate.—adj. Record′able able to be recorded worthy of record.—ns. Recordā′tion (Shak.) remembrance; Record′er one who records or registers esp. the rolls &c. of a city: a judge of a city or borough court of quarter-sessions: an old musical instrument somewhat like a flageolet but with the lower part wider than the upper and a mouthpiece resembling the beak of a bird: a registering apparatus in telegraphy; Record′ership the office of recorder or the time of holding it.
n. a register: a formal writing of any fact or proceeding: a book of such writings: a witness a memorial: memory remembrance: anything entered in the rolls of a court esp. the formal statements or pleadings of parties in a litigation.—n. Rec′ord-off′ice a place where public records are kept.—Beat or Break the record to outdo the highest achievement yet done; Close the record an act of a Scottish judge after each party has said all he wishes to say by way of statement and answer; Public records contemporary authenticated statements of the proceedings of the legislature and the judgments of those higher courts of law known as Courts of Record; Trial by record a common law mode of trial when a disputed former decision of the court is settled by producing the record.
Editor: Quentin
Examples
- Five days' journey from here--say two hundred miles--are the ruins of an ancient city, of whose history there is neither record nor tradition. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The silver, being sensitive to the action of light, is there to record the image. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Several cases are on record of the same species presenting varieties in the upper and lower parts of the same formation. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- It is called a siphon recorder because the record is made by a little glass siphon down which a flow of ink is maintained like a fountain pen. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- I told him I had a machine that would record and reproduce the human voice. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The amount of petroleum produced in the United States in 1896 was 60,960,361 barrels, the largest yield on record. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- I have heard professors reply that it wasn't their business to discuss human nature but to record and interpret economic and political facts. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- After the destruction of Palmyra, the desert Arabs began to be spoken of in the Roman and Persian records as Saracens. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Some of Edison's most remarkable inventions are revealed in a number of interesting patents relating to the duplication of phonograph records. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Each side had to train men in ability to study and expound the records which were relied upon. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It was in the early temples that the records and tallies of events were kept and that writing began. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A very important feature in record-making, from a commercial standpoint, is in means for cheaply duplicating records. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Hence it is always mentioned in the old records, as the Gentle and Joyous Passage of Arms of Ashby. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Beautiful records of such beginnings of science were among the neglected treasures of the rich men's libraries throughout the imperial domains. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Not a vestige of the entry which recorded the marriage of Sir Felix Glyde and Cecilia Jane Elster in the register of the church! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The needle, in passing rapidly in contact with the recorded waves, was vibrated up and down, causing corresponding vibrations of the diaphragm. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Whenever you please, was his answer; as though he had already recorded his decision against me and made his mind up not to look at it. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- It must be recorded of Amy that she deliberately prinked that night. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Eggs and nuts are cracked without being crushed, and the power exerted and the strain endured automatically recorded. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- I compared it with the money-lender's name and address as recorded in my pocket-book, and identified it at once as the writing of Sergeant Cuff. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Ticks of a Watch and the Tread of a Fly Recorded. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- And if there were, they had no recording scribes to embalm their efforts in history. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Permit me to give an idea of my devotion to my aunt's interests by recording that, on this occasion, I committed the prodigality of taking a cab. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Edison constructed a primitive machine capable of recording and reproducing sounds. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He replaced the recording pencil with a fountain pen, and instead of the zigzag signals used the short and long lines that came to be called dots and dashes. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The use of the thermometer in recording the progress of fevers is also a valuable modern application, and the list of instruments and small tools is beyond enumeration. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Suspended above, but in contact with the surface of the blank, is a recording needle or stylus, attached to a diaphragm which, in turn, is connected to an amplifying horn. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- After recording a considerable number of other experiments, the laboratory notes go on to state: November 30, 1875. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Typist: Maxine