| Record |
v. t. |
To recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate. |
| Record |
v. t. |
To repeat; to recite; to sing or play. |
| Record |
v. t. |
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. |
| Record |
v. i. |
To reflect; to ponder. |
| Record |
v. i. |
To sing or repeat a tune. |
| Record |
v. t. |
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. |
| Record |
v. t. |
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. |
| Record |
v. t. |
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. |
| Record |
v. t. |
An official contemporaneous memorandum stating the proceedings of a court of justice; a judicial record. |
| Record |
v. t. |
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. |
| Record |
v. t. |
Testimony; witness; attestation. |
| Record |
v. t. |
That which serves to perpetuate a knowledge of acts or events; a monument; a memorial. |
| Record |
v. t. |
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. |
| Record |
v. t. |
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. |
| Recordance |
n. |
Remembrance. |
| Recordation |
v. t. |
Remembrance; recollection; also, a record. |
| Recorded |
imp. & p. p. |
of Record |
| Recorder |
n. |
One who records; specifically, a person whose official duty it is to make a record of writings or transactions. |
| Recorder |
n. |
The title of the chief judical officer of some cities and boroughs; also, of the chief justice of an East Indian settlement. The Recorder of London is judge of the Lord Mayor's Court, and one of the commissioners of the Central Criminal Court. |
| Recorder |
n. |
A kind of wind instrument resembling the flageolet. |
| Recordership |
n. |
The office of a recorder. |
| Recording |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Record |
| Recording |
a. |
Keeping a record or a register; as, a recording secretary;
applied to numerous instruments with an automatic appliance which makes a record of their action; as, a recording gauge or telegraph. |
