Definition of record

noun (n)

• anything (such as a document or a phonograph record or a photograph) providing permanent evidence of or information about past events (noun.communication)

  Example:
  The film provided a valuable record of stage techniques.
  

  source: wordnet30
• sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove (noun.artifact)

  Synonym: disc, disk, phonograph record, phonograph recording, platter
  

  source: wordnet30
• the number of wins versus losses and ties a team has had (noun.quantity)

  Example:
  At 9-0 they have the best record in their league.
  

  source: wordnet30
• the sum of recognized accomplishments (noun.act)

  Synonym: track record
  

  Example:
  The lawyer has a good record.
  The track record shows that he will be a good president.
  

  source: wordnet30
• a compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone (noun.communication)

  Synonym: book, record book
  

  Example:
  Al Smith used to say, `Let's look at the record'.
  His name is in all the record books.
  

  source: wordnet30
• an extreme attainment; the best (or worst) performance ever attested (as in a sport) (noun.act)

  Example:
  He tied the Olympic record.
  Coffee production last year broke all previous records.
  Chicago set the homicide record.
  

  source: wordnet30
• a document that can serve as legal evidence of a transaction (noun.possession)

  Example:
  They could find no record of the purchase.
  

  source: wordnet30
• a list of crimes for which an accused person has been previously convicted (noun.communication)

  Synonym: criminal record
  

  Example:
  He ruled that the criminal record of the defendant could not be disclosed to the court.
  The prostitute had a record a mile long.
  

  source: wordnet30
• 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. (noun)

  source: webster1913

verb (v)

• make a record of; set down in permanent form (verb.communication)

  Synonym: enter, put down
  

  source: wordnet30
• register electronically (verb.communication)

  Synonym: tape
  Antonym: delete, erase
  

  Example:
  They recorded her singing.
  

  source: wordnet30
• indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments (verb.communication)

  Synonym: read, register, show
  

  source: wordnet30
• be aware of (verb.perception)

  Synonym: register
  

  source: wordnet30
• be or provide a memorial to a person or an event (verb.cognition)

  Synonym: commemorate, immortalise, immortalize, memorialise, memorialize
  

  source: wordnet30
• To recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate. (verb)

  source: webster1913
• To reflect; to ponder. (verb)

  source: webster1913

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