Definitions for record

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record re·cord

Spelling: [verb ri-kawrd; noun, adjective rek-erd]

IPA: /verb rɪˈkɔrd; noun, adjective ˈrɛk ərd/

Record is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 78 anagrams from letters in record (cdeorr).

Definitions for record

noun

1. an act of recording.
2. the state of being recorded, as in writing.
3. an account in writing or the like preserving the memory or knowledge of facts or events.
4. information or knowledge preserved in writing or the like.
5. a report, list, or aggregate of actions or achievements:
6. a legally documented history of criminal activity:
7. something or someone serving as a remembrance; memorial:
8. the tracing, marking, or the like, made by a recording instrument.
9. something on which sound or images have been recorded for subsequent reproduction, as a grooved disk that is played on a phonograph or an optical disk for recording sound (audio disc) or images (videodisc) Compare compact disk.
10. the highest or best rate, amount, etc., ever attained, especially in sports:
11. Sports. the standing of a team or individual with respect to contests won, lost, and tied.
12. an official writing intended to be preserved.
13. Computers. a group of related fields, or a single field, treated as a unit and comprising part of a file or data set, for purposes of input, processing, output, or storage by a computer.
14. Law. the commitment to writing, as authentic evidence, of something having legal importance, especially as evidence of the proceedings or verdict of a court. evidence preserved in this manner. an authentic or official written report of proceedings of a court of justice.

Idioms

1. go on record, to issue a public statement of one's opinion or stand:
2. off the record, not intended for publication; unofficial; confidential: not registered or reported as a business transaction; off the books.
3. on record, existing as a matter of public knowledge; known. existing in a publication, document, file, etc.:

adjective

1. making or affording a record.
2. surpassing or superior to all others:

verb (used with object)

1. to set down in writing or the like, as for the purpose of preserving evidence.
2. to cause to be set down or registered:
3. to state or indicate:
4. to serve to relate or to tell of:
5. to set down or register in some permanent form, as on a seismograph.
6. to set down, register, or fix by characteristic marks, incisions, magnetism, etc., for the purpose of reproduction by a phonograph or magnetic reproducer.
7. to make a recording of:

verb (used without object)

1. to record something; make a record.

Origin of record

1175-1225; 1875-80 for def 17; (v.) Middle English recorden Old French recorder Latin recordārī to remember, recollect (re- re- + cord- (stem of cors) Examples for record

Mr. Gladstone, as he gleefully remarked the other day, has broken the record.

With no record and no warrants, he was given a four-figure bond by a judge the next morning.

This is a record and result that no careful student of our history will, I take it, deny.

But their record shows that travelers to Indonesia need to be very wary of any flight connections they make.

It is a record of singular variety and singular distinction.

The History of Man is the record of a hungry creature in search of food.

So far, the story of ancient man has been the record of a wonderful achievement.

That would truly be a milestone to celebrate—until you see what that record “diversity” actually means.

The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department refused to discuss the case on the record.

With every record you make, you want to make the best one you can, you know?