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Record is defined as to register in a permanent form for playback or to make a permanent file of something.

(verb)

An example of record is for a parent to use a video camera to document his son's first birthday party.
An example of record is to take the minutes of a staff meeting.

The definition of a record is something on which sound or images has been preserved or a permanent file of something.

(noun)

An example of record is a collection on a CD of songs by The Beatles.
An example of record is a list of crimes that a person has committed.

See record in Webster's New World College Dictionary

transitive verb

1. to put in writing, print, etc. for future use; draw up an account of: to record the day's events
2. to make a permanent or official note of: to record a vote
1. to indicate automatically and permanently, as on a graph or chart: a seismograph records earthquakes
2. to show, as on a dial: a thermometer records temperatures
to remain as evidence of: metal tools record a superior civilization
1. to register (sound or visual images) in some permanent form, as on a phonograph disc, magnetic tape, etc. for reproduction on a playback device
2. to register the performance of (a musician, actor, composition, etc.) on discs, tapes, etc. in this way

Origin: ME recorden, to report, repeat (also, to sing, practice a tune, warble) < OFr recorder, to recount, recite, repeat < L recordari, to call to mind, remember < re-, again + cor (gen. cordis), mind, heart

intransitive verb

to record something
to admit of being recorded

noun record

the condition of being recorded
1. anything that is written down and preserved as evidence; account of events
2. anything that serves as evidence of an event, etc.
3. an official written report of public proceedings, as in a legislature or court of law, preserved for future reference
anything that written evidence is put on or in, as a register or monument
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1. the known or recorded facts about anyone or anything, as about one's career
2. the recorded offenses or crimes of a person who has been arrested one or more times
☆ something on which sound or visual images have been recorded; esp., a thin, flat, grooved disc for playing on a phonograph
the best performance, highest speed, greatest amount, highest rate, etc. achieved, esp. when officially recorded
Comput. a group of logically related fields, dealt with as a unit
☆ Sports the number of games, matches, etc. won and lost by a team or person

Origin: ME < OFr < the v.

adjective record

establishing a record as the best, largest, etc.: a record crop

See record in American Heritage Dictionary 4

verb re·cord·ed, re·cord·ing, re·cords

verb, transitive

To set down for preservation in writing or other permanent form.
To register or indicate: The clerk recorded the votes.
a. To register (sound or images) in permanent form by mechanical or electrical means for reproduction.
b. To register the words, sound, appearance, or performance of by such means: recorded the oldest townspeople on tape; recorded the violin concerto.

verb, intransitive

To record something.

noun rec·ord (rĕkˈərd)

a. An account, as of information or facts, set down especially in writing as a means of preserving knowledge.
b. Something on which such an account is based.
c. Something that records: a fossil record.
Information or data on a particular subject collected and preserved: the coldest day on record.
The known history of performance, activities, or achievement: your academic record; hampered by a police record.
An unsurpassed measurement: a world record in weightlifting; a record for cold weather.
Computer Science A collection of related, often adjacent items of data, treated as a unit.
Law
a. An account officially written and preserved as evidence or testimony.
b. An account of judicial or legislative proceedings written and preserved as evidence.
c. The documents or volumes containing such evidence.
a. A disk designed to be played on a phonograph.
b. Something, such as magnetic tape, on which sound or visual images have been recorded.