 6 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
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
1: make a record of; set down in permanent form [syn: {enter},
{put down}]
2: register electronically; "They recorded her singing" [syn: {tape}]
[ant: {erase}]
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}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Record \Re*cord"\, verb (used without an object)
1. To reflect; to ponder. [Obs.]
Praying all the way, and recording upon the words
which he before had read. --Fuller.
2. To sing or repeat a tune. [Obs.] --Shak.
Whether the birds or she recorded best. --W. Browne.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Record \Re*cord"\ (r?*k?rd"), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Recorded}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Recording}.] [OE. recorden to repeat, remind,
F. recorder, fr. L. recordari to remember; pref. re- re- +
cor, cordis, the heart or mind. See {Cordial}, {Heart}.]
1. To recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate.
[Obs.] ''I it you record.'' --Chaucer.
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.
--Fairfax.
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. --1 Esd. i.
42.
{To record a deed}, {mortgage}, {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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Record \Rec"ord\ (r[e^]k"[~e]rd), noun [OF. recort, record,
remembrance, attestation, record. See {Record}, verb (used with an object)]
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. --John i. 32.
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} (pron. r?*k?rd" in Eng.), 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. --Blackstone.
{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.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
247 Moby Thesaurus words for "record":
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
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
record
An {ordered set} of {fields},
usually stored contiguously. The term is used with similar
meaning in several different contexts. In a file, a "record"
probably has some fixed length, in contrast to a "line" which
may have any length and is terminated by some {End Of Line}
sequence). A {database} record is also called a "row". In a
{spreadsheet} it is always called a "row". Some programming
languages use the term to mean a type composed of fields of
several other types ({C} calls this a "{struct}").
In all these cases, a record represents an entity with certain
field values.
Fields may be of a fixed width ({bit}s or {characters}) or
they may be separated by a {delimiter} character, often
{comma} ({CSV}) or {HT} ({TSV}).
In a database the list of values of a given field from all
records is called a column.
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