Definitions for recordings

• Definition
• Anagrams (715)

recordings re·cord·ing

Spelling: [ri-kawr-ding]

IPA: /rɪˈkɔr dɪŋ/

Recordings is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 715 anagrams from letters in recordings (cdeginorrs).

Definitions for recordings

noun

1. the act or practice of a person or thing that records.
2. sound recorded on a disk or tape.
3. a disk or tape on which something is recorded.
4. an act of recording.
5. the state of being recorded, as in writing.
6. an account in writing or the like preserving the memory or knowledge of facts or events.
7. information or knowledge preserved in writing or the like.
8. a report, list, or aggregate of actions or achievements:
9. a legally documented history of criminal activity:
10. something or someone serving as a remembrance; memorial:
11. the tracing, marking, or the like, made by a recording instrument.
12. 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.
13. the highest or best rate, amount, etc., ever attained, especially in sports:
14. Sports. the standing of a team or individual with respect to contests won, lost, and tied.
15. an official writing intended to be preserved.
16. 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.
17. 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 recordings

1300-50; Middle English (gerund); see record, -ing¹

Examples for recordings

The recording of that contact was preserved for all Earth to hear.

History has a cavalier way of recording the benefits of conquest.

Without her influence no process of recording events can develop into a history.

A network insider insisted: “No expletives were uttered by Mr Mason in the recording of his rant.”

I remember practicing that lick [from the solo “Round Midnight” recording] years ago, learning how to do that cascade effect.

Most of the instruments of transmission are here, but there are no recording instruments.

He travels with his eyes open, looking for objects of interest, and recording them.

By the time of the recording session, Brian had become quite agile with the flute and suggested adding it to the song.

Back home and off the road, Gil looked forward to recording again.

In late April or early May 1955, Chuck approached Muddy Waters about recording, and Muddy sent him to Leonard Chess.