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/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

... This is the record of a trip which the author took with Buffalo Jones, known as the preserver of the American bison, across the Arizona desert and of a hunt in "that wonderful country of ...

— Free Air • Sinclair Lewis

... His record in the World War is well known. Every one has read of his masterly conduct of the retreat from the Belgian border; of his work in regrouping the shattered and retiring French forces; of his ringing appeal to the men to strike back at the moment he had determined upon. At the Marne ...

— Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights • Kelly Miller

... as I have found but few more of that year, we must depend on his hurriedly written notebooks for a further record of ...

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... farmers even in Shakespeare's day counted this brilliant blossom the pest it has become in many of our own grain fields just as it was in ancient times, when Job, after solemnly protesting his righteousness, called on his own land to bear record against him if his words were false. "Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley," he cried, according to James the First's translators; but the "noisome weeds" of the original text seem to indicate that these ...

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... am doing; I am doing what little I can to save the flesh of children. You have no right to whip them. It is not the way; and yet some Christians drive their children from their doors if they do wrong, especially if it is a sweet, tender girl—I believe there is no instance on record of any veal being given for the return of a girl—some Christians drive them from their doors and then go down upon their knees and ask God to take care of their children! I will never ask God to take care ...

— Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest • Robert Green Ingersoll

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