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Record   /rəkˈɔrd/  /rˈɛkərd/  /rɪkˈɔrd/   Listen
noun
Record  n.  
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."
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.
6.
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.
Court of record, a court whose acts and judicial proceedings are written on parchment or in books for a perpetual memorial.
Debt of record, a debt which appears to be due by the evidence of a court of record, as upon a judgment or a cognizance.
Trial by record, a trial which is had when a matter of record is pleaded, and the opposite party pleads that there is no such record. In this case the trial is by inspection of the record itself, no other evidence being admissible.
To beat the record, or To break the record (Sporting), to surpass any performance of like kind as authoritatively recorded; as, to break the record in a walking match.


verb
Record  v. t.  (past & past part. recorded; pres. part. recording)  
1.
To recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate. (Obs.) "I it you record."
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."
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."
To record a deed, To record a mortgage, To record a 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.


Record  v. i.  
1.
To reflect; to ponder. (Obs.) "Praying all the way, and recording upon the words which he before had read."
2.
To sing or repeat a tune. (Obs.) "Whether the birds or she recorded best."





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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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