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Record

noun

1.

Anything (such as a document or a phonograph record or a photograph) providing permanent evidence of or information about past events.

2.

Sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove. Synonyms: disc, disk, phonograph record, phonograph recording, platter.

3.

The number of wins versus losses and ties a team has had.

4.

The sum of recognized accomplishments. Synonym: track record. "The track record shows that he will be a good president"

5.

A compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone. Synonyms: book, record book. "His name is in all the record books"

6.

An extreme attainment; the best (or worst) performance ever attested (as in a sport). "Coffee production last year broke all previous records" , "Chicago set the homicide record"

7.

A document that can serve as legal evidence of a transaction.

8.

A list of crimes for which an accused person has been previously convicted. Synonym: criminal record. "The prostitute had a record a mile long"

verb

(past & past part. recorded; pres. part. recording)

1.

Make a record of; set down in permanent form. Synonyms: enter, put down.

2.

Register electronically. Synonym: tape.

3.

Indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments. Synonyms: read, register, show. "The gauge read 'empty'"

4.

Be aware of. Synonym: register.

5.

Be or provide a memorial to a person or an event. Synonyms: commemorate, immortalise, immortalize, memorialise, memorialize. "We memorialized the Dead"

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"Record" Quotes from Famous Books

... fable I know not what of his generating it by living on Cabbage. Why should I speak of Hans Sachs (himself a Shoemaker, or kind of Leather-Tailor), with his Schneider mit dem Panier? Why of Shakspeare, in his Taming of the Shrew, and elsewhere? Does it not stand on record that the English Queen Elizabeth, receiving a deputation of Eighteen Tailors, addressed them with a "Good morning, gentlemen both!" Did not the same virago boast that she had a Cavalry Regiment, whereof neither horse nor man could be injured; her Regiment, namely, of Tailors ...

— Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History • Thomas Carlyle

... down to go to the Record Office today to receive that American fellow, and do the honors of a ridiculous cinema show. That is not the business of the Accountant General: it is the business of the President. It is an outrageous waste of my time, and an unjustifiable ...

— Back to Methuselah • George Bernard Shaw

... barbarians was going on,—in Austria, Moravia, Hungary. In these countries much of his Journal seems to have been written; parts of it are dated from them; and there, a few weeks before his fifty-ninth birthday, he fell sick and died.[209] The record of him on which his fame chiefly rests is the record of his inward life,—his Journal, or Commentaries, or Meditations, or Thoughts, for by all these names has the work been called. Perhaps the most interesting of the records of his outward life is that which the first book of this work ...

— Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold • Matthew Arnold

... likely as not, to-morrow would be one of those bad-luck days. In a diary which I kept at the time I find a record of a day ...

— Dwellers in Arcady - The Story of an Abandoned Farm • Albert Bigelow Paine

... was not possible for the old man's face to record more misery, the light of the guard-room fire over which he crouched showed no change whatever ...

— The Ward of King Canute • Ottilie A. Liljencrantz

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