Dictionary Definition
record
Noun
1 anything (such as a document or a phonograph
record or a photograph) providing permanent evidence of or
information about past events; "the film provided a valuable record
of stage techniques"
2 the number of wins versus losses and ties a
team has had; "at 9-0 they have the best record in their
league"
3 an extreme attainment; the best (or worst)
performance ever attested (as in a sport); "he tied the Olympic
record"; "coffee production last year broke all previous records";
"Chicago set the homicide record"
4 sound recording consisting of a disc with
continuous grooves; formerly used to reproduce music by rotating
while a phonograph needle tracked in the grooves [syn: phonograph
record, phonograph
recording, disk,
disc, platter]
5 the sum of recognized accomplishments; "the
lawyer has a good record"; "the track record shows that he will be
a good president" [syn: track
record]
6 a list of crimes for which an accused person
has been previously convicted; "he ruled that the criminal record
of the defendant could not be disclosed to the court"; "the
prostitute had a record a mile long" [syn: criminal
record]
7 a compilation of the known facts regarding
something or someone; "Al Smith used to say, `Let's look at the
record'"; "his name is in all the recordbooks" [syn: record book,
book]
8 a document that can serve as legal evidence of
a transaction; "they could find no record of the purchase"
Verb
3 indicate a certain reading; of gauges and
instruments; "The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero";
"The gauge read `empty'" [syn: read, register, show]
4 be aware of; "Did you register any change when
I pressed the button?" [syn: register]
5 be or provide a memorial to a person or an
event; "This sculpture commemorates the victims of the
concentration camps"; "We memorialized the Dead" [syn: commemorate, memorialize, memorialise, immortalize, immortalise]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Etymology
From record, from verb recorder "to record".Noun
- Information put into a temporary or permanent physical medium.
- The person had a record of the event in her memory in her
brain.
- The tourist's photographs and the tape of the police call provide a record of the crime.
- The person had a record of the event in her memory in her
brain.
- Any instance of a physical medium on which information was put
for the purpose of preserving it and making it available for future
reference.
- We have no record of you making this payment to us.
- A vinyl disc on which sound is recorded and
may be replayed on a phonograph.
- I still like records better than CDs.
- A set of data relating to a single individual or item.
- The most extreme known value of some achievement, particularly
in competitive events.
- The heat and humidity were both new records.
- The team set a new record for most points scored in a quarter.
- The heat and humidity were both new records.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
information put into a lasting physical medium
- Chinese: 纪录 (chàngpiān)
- Danish: optegnelse, dokument
- Finnish: tallenne
- French: enregistrement
- Greek: εγγραφή (engrafi) , καταγραφή (katagrafi)
- Lithuanian: įrašas
vinyl disc/disk
computing: set of data relating to a single
individual or item
most extreme known value of some achievement
- Arabic:
- Chinese: 纪录 (jìlù)
- Czech: rekord
- Danish: rekord
- Dutch: record
- Finnish: ennätys
- French: record
- German: Rekord
- Greek: ρεκόρ (rekor)
- Hungarian: csúcs
- Italian: primato
- Japanese: 最高記録 (さいこうきろく, saikō kiroku)
- Korean: 기록 (girok)
- Lithuanian: rekordas
- Portuguese: recorde
- Russian: рекорд (rekórd)
- Spanish: récord
- Swedish: rekord
Verb
- To make a record of information.
- I wanted to record every detail of what happened, for the benefit of future generations.
- Specifically, to make an audio or video recording of.
- Within a week they had recorded both the song and the video for it.
- To give legal status to by making an official public record.
- When the deed was recorded, we officially owned the house.
- To fix in a medium, usually in a tangible medium.
- To make an audio, video, or multimedia recording.
Translations
make a record of
- Arabic: (sájjala)
- Chinese: 碌 (lù)
- Czech: zaznamenat
- Danish: optegne, registrere
- Dutch: optekenen
- Finnish: tallentaa, taltioida
- French: enregistrer
- German: eintragen
- Greek: καταγράφω (katagrafo), αναγράφω (anagrafo)
- Hungarian: feljegyezni
- Italian: registrare
- Japanese: 記録する (きろくする, kiroku suru)
- Korean: 기록하다 (girokhada)
- Portuguese: registrar
- Russian: записывать (zapísyvat’)
- Spanish: registrar, anotar
- Swedish: anteckna
make an audio or video recording of
(intransitive) make audio or video recording
French
Etymology
From record.Pronunciation
Noun
fr-noun m- record
(most extreme known value of some achievement)
- Le record du saut en hauteur a été battu par Javier Sotomayor en 1993.
Extensive Definition
Record or The Record may mean:
An item or collection of data:
- Storage
medium that contains data (more specifically audio data)
- Gramophone record (also called "phonograph record"), mechanical storage medium
- Compact Disc, optical storage medium
- Record
(computer science), a data structure
- Storage record, a basic input/output structure
- Record (database), other name for a relational database row
- Boot record, record used to start an operating system
- Document for
administrative use
- Business record of economic transactions
- Medical record of a person's medical history and treatments
- Service record, usually associated with military service
- Minutes, a summary of the proceedings at a meeting
- Public record, information that has been filed or recorded by public agencies
- World record, an unsurpassed accomplishment or statistic
- Archaeological record, the body of archaeological evidence
Titles:
- Records (album), a 1982 album by rock band Foreigner
- The Record (album), a 1982 punk rock album by the band Fear
- The Record (film), a South Korean film directed by Ki-Hun Kim
Periodicals:
- In the United States:
- The Record (Bergen County), a newspaper in Bergen County, New Jersey
- The Record (Stockton), a newspaper in Stockton, California
- The Record (Troy, NY), a newspaper in Troy, New York
- In Canada:
- The Record (Waterloo Region), a newspaper in Waterloo Region, Ontario
- The Record (Sherbrooke), a newspaper in Quebec
- The Record (magazine), a former trade magazine of the Canadian music industry
- Elsewhere:
- Record (newspaper), a Portuguese sports newspaper
- The Record Music Magazine, an Indian publication featuring music personalities
- Récord, a Mexican sports newspaper
- Record (magazine), the official church paper of the South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists
Broadcasting:
- TV Record, a Brazilian TV network
- Record News, the Rede Record's news channel
See also
record in Danish: Rekord
record in German: Record
record in Spanish: Récord
record in French: Record
record in Italian: Record
record in Dutch: Record
record in Japanese: レコード (曖昧さ回避)
record in Polish: Rekord
record in Portuguese: Record
record in Russian: Рекорд (значения)
record in Simple English: Record
record in Swedish: Rekord
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
CD,
Clio, Muse of history,
accomplishment,
accomplishments,
account, account
rendered, accounting,
acme, acta, adventures, album, annals, annual, archives, authority, authorization, autobiography, be-all and
end-all, biograph,
biographical sketch, biographize, biography, blue ribbon,
book, brief, bulletin, calendar, cartridge, carve, case history, cassette, catalog, catalogue, census report,
chalk, chalk up, championship, check in,
check sheet, chronicle, chronicles, chronology, clock card,
command, confessions, confidentially, control, copy, copy out, curriculum vitae,
cut, data, date slip, datebook, daybook, deeds, diary, directorship, disc, distance, docket, document, documentation, dominion, dossier, draft, draw up, edit, effectiveness, election
returns, electrical transcription, enface, engrave, engross, enroll, enscroll, enter, enumerate, evidence, experiences, extreme, file, fill out, first place, first
prize, fortunes,
grave, hagiography, hagiology, headship, hegemony, height, highest, historify, historiography, history, impanel, imperium, in confidence,
incise, index, indicate, influence, information, inscribe, insert, itemize, jot down, journal, jurisdiction, kingship, leadership, legend, life, life and letters, life story,
list, log, lordship, make a memorandum,
make a note, make a recension, make an entry, make out, management, mark, mark down, martyrology, mastership, mastery, matriculate, maximum, memento, memoir, memoirs, memorabilia, memorandum, memorial, memorials, minute, minutes, monument, most, narrate, ne plus ultra, necrology, new high, not for
publication, notation,
note, note down, obituary, off the record,
palms, paramountcy, pen, pencil, phonograph record,
photobiography,
place upon record, platter, poll, post, post up, power, presidency, primacy, privately, proceedings, profile, push the pen, put down,
put in writing, put on paper, put on tape, read, recense, recite, recording, recount, reduce to writing,
register, registry, relate, release, report, reputation, resume, returns, revise, rewrite, rule, say, scribe, scrive, scroll, secretly, set down, single, souvenir, sovereignty, spill ink,
spoil paper, statement, story, sub rosa, superscribe, supremacy, sway, tabulate, take down, tally, tape, tape cartridge, tape
cassette, tape recording, tape-record, the record, theory of
history, time, time book,
time chart, time scale, time schedule, time sheet, time study,
timecard, timetable, top spot, trace, track record, transactions, transcribe, transcription, type, unofficially, videotape, wax, wire recording, write, write down, write in, write
out, write up, yearbook, zenith