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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

... place, we know that it was by obedience that the record of God's dealings with her soul were set down in writing. And again, the long tale of graces granted in such strange profusion through her intercession is proof sufficient that it was not without Divine permission and guidance that the ...

— The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Ame): The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux • Therese Martin (of Lisieux)

... watched for developments. Under no circumstances should it be killed. If the animal is rabid, it will be unable to eat or drink, and will die in the course of a few days; should it survive not the least fear need be felt as to it having had hydrophobia, as no instance is on record where the disease was followed by recovery. For further information on this subject, the reader is referred to the special article ...

— Health on the Farm - A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene • H. F. Harris

... panel has been used for scratching the Chronicle of Castiglione. I read one date, 1568, several of the next century, the record of a duel between two gentlemen, and many inscriptions to this effect, 'Erodiana Regina,' 'Omnia praetereunt,' &c. A dirty one-eyed fellow keeps the place. In my presence he swept the frescoes over with a scratchy broom, flaying their upper surface in profound unconsciousness ...

— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece • John Addington Symonds

... years we have had a clean record of peace and good-will. It is an open book that cannot be twisted or defamed. It is a record that must be ...

— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

... (nee Elizabeth Bacon) married the poet George Gascoigne before her sons had attained their majority. Nicholas Breton was probably born at the "capitall mansion house" in Red Cross Street, in the parish of St Giles without Cripplegate, mentioned in his father's will. There is no official record of his residence at the university, but the diary of the Rev. Richard Madox tells us that he was at Antwerp in 1583 and was "once of Oriel College." He married Ann Sutton in 1593, and had a family. He is supposed to have died shortly after the publication of ...

— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 - "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" • Various

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