record /ri-kördˈ/

1. To set down in writing or other permanent form
2. To register (on an instrument, scale, etc)
3. To trace a curve or other representation of
4. To perform before a recording instrument
5. To make a recording of (music, speech, etc)
6. To mark, indicate
7. To bear witness to
8. To put on record (an offence, etc) without taking further measures against the offender
9. To register (as a vote or verdict)
10. To celebrate
11. To call to mind (archaic)
12. To get by heart (obsolete)
13. To go over in one's mind (Spenser)
14. To repeat from memory (Spenser)
15. To narrate, set forth (archaic)
16. To sing in an undertone, practise quietly (esp of birds; obsolete)

1. To make a record
2. To sing, warble, esp in quiet rehearsal (obsolete)

1. A register
2. A formal writing of any fact or proceeding
3. A book of such writings
4. Past history
5. A witness, a memorial
6. Memory, remembrance
7. Anything entered in the rolls of a court, esp the formal statement or pleadings of parties in a litigation
8. A group of related fields forming a complete piece of information, such as a name and address, and constituting one of the basic elements of a database (computing)
9. A curve or other representation of phenomena made by an instrument upon a surface
10. A disc (or formerly a cylinder) on which sound is registered for reproduction by an instrument such as a record player
11. A performance or occurrence not recorded to have been surpassed
12. A list of a person's criminal convictions

Not surpassed

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

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