Definitions for record
rɪˈkɔrd; ˈrɛk ərdrecord

Princeton's WordNet(4.25 / 4 votes)Rate this definition:

1. record(noun)

   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. phonograph record, phonograph recording, record, disk, disc, platter(noun)

   sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove

3. record(noun)

   the number of wins versus losses and ties a team has had

   "at 9-0 they have the best record in their league"

4. record, track record(noun)

   the sum of recognized accomplishments

   "the lawyer has a good record"; "the track record shows that he will be a good president"

5. record, record book, book(noun)

   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 record books"

6. record(noun)

   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"

7. record(noun)

   a document that can serve as legal evidence of a transaction

   "they could find no record of the purchase"

8. criminal record, record(verb)

   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"

9. record, enter, put down(verb)

   make a record of; set down in permanent form

10. record, tape(verb)

    register electronically

    "They recorded her singing"

11. read, register, show, record(verb)

    indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments

    "The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero"; "The gauge read `empty'"

12. record, register(verb)

    be aware of

    "Did you register any change when I pressed the button?"

13. commemorate, memorialize, memorialise, immortalize, immortalise, record(verb)

    be or provide a memorial to a person or an event

    "This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps"; "We memorialized the Dead"

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Record(verb)

   to recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate

   Etymology: [OF. recort, record, remembrance, attestation, record. See Record, v. t.]

2. Record(verb)

   to repeat; to recite; to sing or play

   Etymology: [OF. recort, record, remembrance, attestation, record. See Record, v. t.]

3. Record(verb)

   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

   Etymology: [OF. recort, record, remembrance, attestation, record. See Record, v. t.]

4. Record(verb)

   to reflect; to ponder

   Etymology: [OF. recort, record, remembrance, attestation, record. See Record, v. t.]

5. Record(verb)

   to sing or repeat a tune

   Etymology: [OF. recort, record, remembrance, attestation, record. See Record, v. t.]

6. Record(verb)

   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

   Etymology: [OF. recort, record, remembrance, attestation, record. See Record, v. t.]

7. Record(verb)

   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

   Etymology: [OF. recort, record, remembrance, attestation, record. See Record, v. t.]

8. Record(verb)

   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

   Etymology: [OF. recort, record, remembrance, attestation, record. See Record, v. t.]

9. Record(verb)

   an official contemporaneous memorandum stating the proceedings of a court of justice; a judicial record

   Etymology: [OF. recort, record, remembrance, attestation, record. See Record, v. t.]

10. Record(verb)

    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

    Etymology: [OF. recort, record, remembrance, attestation, record. See Record, v. t.]

11. Record(verb)

    testimony; witness; attestation

    Etymology: [OF. recort, record, remembrance, attestation, record. See Record, v. t.]

12. Record(verb)

    that which serves to perpetuate a knowledge of acts or events; a monument; a memorial

    Etymology: [OF. recort, record, remembrance, attestation, record. See Record, v. t.]

13. Record(verb)

    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

    Etymology: [OF. recort, record, remembrance, attestation, record. See Record, v. t.]

14. Record(verb)

    that which has been publicly achieved in any kind of competitive sport as recorded in some authoritative manner, as the time made by a winning horse in a race

    Etymology: [OF. recort, record, remembrance, attestation, record. See Record, v. t.]

Freebase(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Record

   The Record is the fortnightly news magazine of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the South Pacific region of the church. Its office is located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and connected with the Adventist Media Network. The magazine is printed by Signs Publishing Company, located outside of Melbourne, in Victoria. Record was first published in 1898 in Victoria, replacing an earlier title known as the Gleaner. It currently has a circulation of 26,000, mainly to Seventh-day Adventists in Australia and New Zealand. Pablo Lillo is the current editor and has been in the role since late 2009. In April 2010, distribution also commenced in urban areas of the Fiji Islands and Papua New Guinea. Adventists receive it free of charge at church.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Record

   rē-kord′, v.t. to write anything formally, to preserve evidence of it: to bear witness to: to register or enrol: to celebrate.—adj. Record′able, able to be recorded, worthy of record.—ns. Recordā′tion (Shak.), remembrance; Record′er, one who records or registers, esp. the rolls, &c., of a city: a judge of a city or borough court of quarter-sessions: an old musical instrument somewhat like a flageolet, but with the lower part wider than the upper, and a mouthpiece resembling the beak of a bird: a registering apparatus in telegraphy; Record′ership, the office of recorder, or the time of holding it. [O. Fr. recorder—L. recordāre, to call to mind—re-, again, cor, cordis, the heart.]

2. Record

   rek′ord, n. a register: a formal writing of any fact or proceeding: a book of such writings: a witness, a memorial: memory, remembrance: anything entered in the rolls of a court, esp. the formal statements or pleadings of parties in a litigation.—n. Rec′ord-off′ice, a place where public records are kept.—Beat, or Break, the record, to outdo the highest achievement yet done; Close the record, an act of a Scottish judge after each party has said all he wishes to say by way of statement and answer; Public records, contemporary authenticated statements of the proceedings of the legislature, and the judgments of those higher courts of law known as Courts of Record; Trial by record, a common law mode of trial when a disputed former decision of the court is settled by producing the record.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. record

   To preserve by committing to writing; to make official note of; as, to record the proceedings of a court.

2. record

   An authentic copy; a statement of the proceedings of a court or board; a written history; an official account or register.

Editors Contribution(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. record

   To write or type data, fact, information, research or statistics onto a document.

   We did record our marriage on the wedding register at the civil ceremony.

   Submitted by MaryC on February 5, 2016  

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'record' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #784

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'record' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1026

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'record' in Nouns Frequency: #188

4. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'record' in Verbs Frequency: #227

How to pronounce record?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of record in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of record in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of record in a Sentence

1. Chris Christie:

   I'd like to see what Jeb Bush is going to have to say about these things, you know. He's certainly got a father and a brother who've got a record, and I don't know what Jeb Bush is going to say about foreign policy, the one speech he's given so far I thought was rather general and didn't give you a great insight into what he'd do. Let's see what he's got to say for himself.

2. Lisa Grant Ludwig:

   The record of past earthquakes tells us what could happen in the future because we know it happened in the past, this precedent carries the implications that similar joint ruptures are possible in the future and that the San Jacinto fault plays a more significant role in seismic hazard in southern California than previously considered.

3. Gavin Schmidt:

   We would not have seen the record warming without the long-term trend.

4. Kiri Pritchard-Mclean:

   I've pulled in all the favours and burned every bridge I have, and now we've got this amazing line-up of fantastic comedians and it looks like it's going to be a really fun night and that we might well set a record, which is lovely, so come along. Have a pub quiz team. Support your local pub and raise a load of money for charity.

5. Frank Zappa, Interview with this submitter, New York City, 5/08/1980:

   The function of government ought to be: make sure you have good water to drink, somebody picking up the garbage, good roads to drive on, enough electricity to turn your light bulbs and your record player on, and whatever smaller amounts of regulatory assistance is necessary to make this society work.

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