recordˈable /ri-/ adjective

1. Able to be recorded
2. Worthy of record

recordāˈtion (or (Shakespeare) /rekˈ/) noun

1. Remembrance
2. Recording
3. Commemoration

recordˈer /ri-/ noun

1. A person who records or registers, esp the rolls, etc of a city
2. (with cap) a judge of a city or borough court of quarter-sessions (historical)
3. In England, a barrister or solicitor appointed as a part-time judge
4. A person who performs before a recording instrument
5. A recording apparatus
6. A fipple flute, once called the ‘English flute’, much used in the 16c–18c and revived in the 20c (from the obsolete meanings of the verb)

recordˈership noun

The office of recorder or the time of holding it

recordˈing noun

1. A record of sound or images made for later reproduction, eg on magnetic tape, film or disc
2. The process of registering these sounds and images

Relating to the production of records

recordˈist noun

A person who records (esp the sound for a cinema film)

record-breaking adjective

Outdoing the highest achievement yet recorded

recorded delivery noun

A service of the Post Office in which a record is kept of the collection and delivery of a letter, parcel, etc

recording angel noun

An angel supposed to keep a book in which every misdeed is recorded against the doer

Record Office noun

A place where public records are kept

record player noun

1. A small, portable instrument for playing audio records, run on batteries or mains electricity
2. A larger, more sophisticated, etc device for the same purpose

record sleeve noun

A cardboard case for a record

beat or break a (or the) record

To outdo the highest achievement yet recorded

close the record

An act of a Scottish judge after each party has said all he or she wishes to say by way of statement and answer

court of record

A court (such as the supreme court, county courts and others) whose acts and proceedings are permanently recorded, and which has the authority to fine or imprison persons for contempt

for the record (informal)

In order to get the facts straight

go on record

To make a public statement

off the record

Not to be made public (offˈ-the-record adjective)

on record

1. Recorded in a document, etc
2. Publicly known

public records

Contemporary officially authenticated statements of acts and proceedings in public affairs, preserved in the public interest

set (or put) the record straight

To put right a mistake or false impression

trial by record (obsolete)

A common-law mode of trial when a former decision of the court was disputed and the matter settled by producing the record