record

Forms

1.An item of information put into a temporary or permanent physical medium.
- The person had a record of the interview so she could review her notes.
- The tourist's photographs and the tape of the police call provide a record of the crime.
- He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.
2.Any instance of a physical medium on which information was put for the purpose of preserving it and making it available for future reference.
- My remarks were struck from the record.
- We have no record of you making this payment to us.
3.A set of data relating to a single individual or item.
- Pull up the record on John Smith. What's his medical history?
4.Ellipsis of phonograph record (“a disc, usually made from vinyl, on which sound is recorded and may be replayed on a phonograph”).
- I still like records better than CDs.

1.Enough to break previous records and set a new one; world-class; historic.
- "But it's far worse for me," said Edmund, "because you'll at least have a room of your own and I shall have to share a bedroom with that record stinker, Eustace."

1.To make a record of information.
- I wanted to record every detail of what happened, for the benefit of future generations.
2.To make an audio or video recording of.
- Within a week they had recorded both the song and the video for it.
- However, the ability to record people without their knowledge, with the stroke of a finger over the spectacle frame or a voice command, has prompted privacy concerns.
3.To give legal status to by making an official public record.
- When the deed was recorded, we officially owned the house.

Common· #518

From Middle English recorde, borrowed from Old French record, from recorder.

See record.