(a) a record of crimes or criminals in a particular place, period of time, etc. (now rare); (b) a list of a person's previous criminal…

†(a) a public record (cf. sense 3a) (obsolete); (b) a dossier kept by the police on a person convicted of a crime; a personal history which includes…

a copy of a document, etc., kept in the office for reference; also in extended use.

(a) the visible evidence of geological change; esp. the fossil content of rock strata, as used to date strata or their fossils; an instance of…

(a) a timetable in the form of a card; (b) a card on which a record is kept of time worked.

Medieval Art. The inscribed scroll proceeding from a person's mouth or held by him or her, to indicate his or her words. Also figurative: a record…

Originally U.S. An act of engaging a seat, room, place, ticket, vehicle, etc., in advance; an engagement secured in this way; a booking.

an item cut out from a newspaper.

Originally U.S. A police record, a criminal record. Also with modifying word: a history of being engaged in a specified kind of illicit or…

A line or figure drawn; a tracing, drawing, or sketch of an object or of a piece of work; the traced record of a self-recording instrument; in For…

an expense account; (later also more generally) any other document listing charges for goods or services, such as an invoice or time sheet.

a (printed) record of the past performance of a racehorse or racehorses; a form book; also transferred, any past record, esp. of criminal convictions.

the collective name for a series of fragmentary manuscripts dating from the third century b.c. to the first century a.d., which contain a unique…

Often with capital initials. A yellow card issued to British soldiers in Northern Ireland during the Troubles (see trouble, n. 2b), which stated the…