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/rəkˈɔrdɪŋ/ /rɪkˈɔrdɪŋ/ Listen

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."

adjective

Recording adj. Keeping a record or a register; as, a recording secretary; applied to numerous instruments with an automatic appliance which makes a record of their action; as, a recording gauge or telegraph.

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Etymology of 'Recording'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Recording" Quotes from Famous Books

... up before memory the image of transacted pains and pleasures. Thus it is that such an one shies from all cut-and-dry professions, and inclines insensibly toward that career of art which consists only in the tasting and recording of experience. ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... in the possession of his family. He died in Glasgow, on the 27th April 1852, in his ninetieth year. Of a buoyant and humorous disposition, he composed verses nearly to the close of his long life; and, latterly, found pleasure in recording, for the amusement of his family, his recollections of the past. He was universally beloved as a faithful friend, and was deeply imbued with ...

— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volumes I-VI. - The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century • Various

... outside humanity. Be sure that, if it forgets many things which you, who overhear, would like it to have remembered, it will remember everything which it is important to remember, everything which the recording angel, who is the soul's finer criticism of itself, has already inscribed in the book of ...

— Figures of Several Centuries • Arthur Symons

... observances and practical representations. For this reason an age of ignorance is an age of ceremony. Pageants, and processions, and commemorations, gradually shrink away, as better methods come into use of recording events, and ...

— A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland • Samuel Johnson

... that played their part in my tale, and those that knew them well and loved them well, to gain so close a knowledge of the deeds I did not witness and the words I did not hear as to make me as creditable in the recording them as any historian of old time that puts long speeches into the mouths of statesmen he never saw, and repeats the harangues of embattled generals on fields where he never fought. And so to come back to Messer ...

— The God of Love • Justin Huntly McCarthy

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