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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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"Recording" Quotes from Famous Books

... and night passed without any event worth recording. I kept the door of communication between the bedroom and dressing-room wide open all night, determined that Augusta Darrell should not be in that room without my knowledge; but the night passed, and she ...

— Milly Darrell and Other Tales • M. E. Braddon

... o'clock in the morning, an hour before the time mentioned in the judgment which we have read above,—again in the Library of the Court of Cassation. M. Renouard was present. An official minute was given to him, recording his appointment, as well as certain details with which he asked to be supplied. The judgment which had been drawn up was taken by M. Quesnault to the Recorder's Office, and immediately entered upon the Register of the Secret Deliberations of the Court of Cassation, ...

— The History of a Crime - The Testimony of an Eye-Witness • Victor Hugo

... of common experience; and, secondly, the reverse operation; increased study of the various types of human nature that are to be found in the world; conducted by persons not only capable of analyzing and recording the circumstances in which these types severally prevail, but also sufficiently acquainted with psychological laws to be able to explain and account for the characteristics of the type, by the peculiarities of the circumstances: the residuum alone, when there proves to be any, ...

— A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive • John Stuart Mill

... growth which Nature demands for her enterprises, but with the sudden swiftness of the spirit. In an instant changes had taken place in Justin's soul which his so-called "experiencing religion" twenty-five years back had been powerless to effect. He had indeed been baptized then, but the recording angel could have borne witness that this second baptism fructified the first, and became the real herald of the new birth and ...

— Homespun Tales • Kate Douglas Wiggin

... in recording the continued steadiness and good conduct of my men, and I regret extremely the necessity which has compelled me to dispense with the services of two of them before the termination of the expedition, and after they have taken so considerable ...

— Journals Of Expeditions Of Discovery Into Central • Edward John Eyre

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