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Record   /rəkˈɔrd/  /rˈɛkərd/  /rɪkˈɔrd/   Listen
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



... recalled his own descriptive formula struck out as a tag for the hard-faced, heavy-browed man at the end of the cafe table—"crudely strong, elementally shrewd, with a touch, or more than a touch, of the savage: the gray-wolf type"—and he found no present reason for changing the record. ...
— The Price • Francis Lynde

... as the boat rounds a rocky point, one sees a deserted city up above,—houses, walls, battlements, with the sun shining through the empty window squares. Sometimes you learn that it has been Roman, sometimes Egyptian, sometimes all record of its name or origin has been absolutely lost, You ask yourself in amazement why any race should build in so uncouth a solitude, and you find it difficult to accept the theory that this has only been of value as a guard-house to the richer country ...
— A Desert Drama - Being The Tragedy Of The "Korosko" • A. Conan Doyle

... that fill the courts of the oldest monarchies. It was like Versailles, in the reign of Louis XIV., in the Gallery of Mirrors, or in the drawing-room of the Oeil de Boeuf. It would have taken a Dangeau to record, hour by hour, the minute points of etiquette. The Emperor walked, spoke, thought, acted, like a monarch of an old line. To nothing does a man so readily adapt himself as to power. One who has been invested with the highest rank is sure to imagine himself eternal; ...
— The Court of the Empress Josephine • Imbert de Saint-Amand

... Museum Rosamund was fascinated by the tombs. She, who always seemed so remote from sorrow, who, to Dion, was the personification of vitality and joyousness, was deeply moved by the record of death, by the wonderfully restrained, and yet wonderfully frank, suggestion of the grief of those who, centuries ago, had mingled their dust with the dust of the relations, the lovers, the friends, whom ...
— In the Wilderness • Robert Hichens

... "What record runs here?" she asked querulously. "A prayer of your faithful Lords and Commons that your Majesty will grant speech with their chosen deputies to lay before your Majesty a cause they ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker


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