Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Record"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Record \Re*cord"\, v. i.
1. To reflect; to ponder. [Obs.]
Praying all the way, and recording upon the words
which he before had read. --Fuller.
2. To sing or repeat a tune. [Obs.] --Shak.
Whether the birds or she recorded best. --W. Browne.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Record \Re*cord"\ (r?*k?rd"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Recorded}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Recording}.] [OE. recorden to repeat, remind,
F. recorder, fr. L. recordari to remember; pref. re- re- +
cor, cordis, the heart or mind. See {Cordial}, {Heart}.]
1. To recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate.
[Obs.] ``I it you record.'' --Chaucer.
2. To repeat; to recite; to sing or play. [Obs.]
They longed to see the day, to hear the lark Record
her hymns, and chant her carols blest. --Fairfax.
3. 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.
Those things that are recorded of him . . . are
written in the chronicles of the kings. --1 Esd. i.
42.
{To record a deed}, {mortgage}, {lease}, etc., to have a copy
of the same entered in the records of the office
designated by law, for the information of the public.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Record \Rec"ord\ (r[e^]k"[~e]rd), n. [OF. recort, record,
remembrance, attestation, record. See {Record}, v. t.]
1. 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.
2. Especially:
(a) 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.
(b) 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.
(c) An official contemporaneous memorandum stating the
proceedings of a court of justice; a judicial record.
(d) 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.
3. Testimony; witness; attestation.
John bare record, saying. --John i. 32.
4. That which serves to perpetuate a knowledge of acts or
events; a monument; a memorial.
5. 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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
record
adj : best of its kind on record; "in record time" [syn: {record(a)}]
n 1: 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"
2: the number of wins versus losses and ties a team has had;
"at 9-0 they have the best record in their league"
3: 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"
4: sound recording consisting of a disc with continuous
grooves; formerly used to reproduce music by rotating
while a phonograph needle tracked in the grooves [syn: {phonograph
record}, {phonograph recording}, {disk}, {disc}, {platter}]
5: the sum of recognized accomplishments; "the lawyer has a
good record" [syn: {track record}]
6: a list of crimes for which an accused person has been
previously convicted; "he ruled that the criminal record
of the defendant could not be disclosed to the court";
"the prostitute had a record a mile long" [syn: {criminal
record}]
7: 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 recordbooks" [syn: {recordbook},
{book}]
8: a document that can serve as legal evidence of a
transaction; "they could find no record of the purchase"
v 1: make a record of; set down in permanent form [syn: {enter},
{put down}]
2: register electronically [syn: {tape}] [ant: {erase}]
3: indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments; "The
thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero"; "The
gauge read `empty'" [syn: {read}, {register}, {show}]
4: be aware of [syn: {register}]
5: be a memorial to a person or an event; "This sculpture
commemorates the victims of the concentration camps" [syn:
{commemorate}, {memorialize}, {immortalize}, {immortalise}]
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