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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

... on the part of those agents or neglect involving hazard of serious public loss to escape detection. I renew, however, the recommendation heretofore made by me of the enactment of a law declaring it felony on the part of public officers to insert false entries in their books of record or account or to make false returns, and also requiring them on the termination of their service to deliver to their successors all books, records, and other objects of a ...

— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Section 3 (of 4) of Volume 5: Franklin Pierce • James D. Richardson

... strove to extract information. Most of the senior lieutenants were on detached service when they came in from Arizona. Everybody thought Stryker would get the detail as soon as he returned from abroad, whither he had gone on leave after making, as mountain scout leader, the best four years' record in the regiment; but Stryker came just as Billings did, and to Billings, not Stryker, was the adjutancy tendered. What made the regiment indignant was, that so far from being in the least put out about it, Stryker placidly remarked ...

— Marion's Faith. • Charles King

... beginning, will not be offended at the occasional manifestation of ungentleness, unkindness and impatience on the part of a Christian; for he remembers that Christians are commanded to bear one another's burdens and infirmities. He knows that the enumeration of the fruits of the Spirit is not a record of laws the observance of which is imperative or Christ will be denied. He is aware the passage is to be interpreted as meaning that Christians are to strive to be kind; that is the mark at which they aim. However, ...

— Epistle Sermons, Vol. II - Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost • Martin Luther

... Xanthochroi, and Melanochroi—have always existed in some of the localities in which they are now found, nor do the negroes ever seem to have voluntarily travelled beyond the limits of their present area. But ancient history is in a great measure the record of the mutual encroachments of ...

— Critiques and Addresses • Thomas Henry Huxley

... Bristol and Devonshire to the coasts of that great island and to the Gulf of St. Lawrence beyond. In 1592 the English adventurers got as far west as Anticosti Island (in a ship from Bristol), and in 1597 there is the first record of English ships (from London—the Hopewell and the Chancewell) sailing up the St. Lawrence River, perhaps as far ...

— Pioneers in Canada • Sir Harry Johnston

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