document

Forms

1.An original or official paper used as the basis, proof, or support of anything else, including any writing, book, or other instrument conveying information pertinent to such proof or support.
- Saint Luke […] collected them from such documents and testimonies as he […] judged to be authentic.
2.Any material substance on which the information is represented by writing.
- If a morsel of food fell off your plate, the advice of one contemporary document was to pick it up, make the sign of the cross over it, season it well - and then eat it.
3.A file that contains text.
- That exception is the HTML <IMG> tag–which transcludes an image into the context of the document. The image itself is neither embedded within the document nor copied, it is transcluded.
4.An object conveying information by whatever means, capable of being indexed alongside other similar objects.
- Can you please sign this document?
- Please send this document before the end of the month.

1.To record in documents.
- He documented each step of the process as he did it, which was good when the investigation occurred.
- The relationship between memory as lived and history as documented is always a complex dialogue, each informing, and disinforming, the other.
- Significantly, on documenting Thomas's subsequent outlawry and Margery's waivery, the court clerk recorded that it was not known whether they had any chattels because they were strangers.
2.To furnish with documents or papers necessary to establish facts or give information.
- A ship should be documented according to the directions of law.

Common· #1447

Borrowed from Middle French document

From Latin documentum.