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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Record \Re*cord"\ (r?*k?rd"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Recorded; p.
pr. & vb. n. Recording.] [OE. recorden to repeat, remind,
F. recorder, fr. L. recordari to remember; pref. re- re- +
cor, cordis, the heart or mind. See Cordial, Heart.]
1. To recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate.
[Obs.] "I it you record." --Chaucer.
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2. To repeat; to recite; to sing or play. [Obs.]
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They longed to see the day, to hear the lark
Record her hymns, and chant her carols blest.
--Fairfax.
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3. To preserve the memory of, by committing to writing, to
printing, to inscription, or the like; to make note of; to
write or enter in a book or on parchment, for the purpose
of preserving authentic evidence of; to register; to
enroll; as, to record the proceedings of a court; to
record historical events.
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Those things that are recorded of him . . . are
written in the chronicles of the kings. --1 Esd. i.
42.
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To record a deed, mortgage, lease, etc., to have a copy
of the same entered in the records of the office
designated by law, for the information of the public.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Record \Re*cord"\, v. i.
1. To reflect; to ponder. [Obs.]
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Praying all the way, and recording upon the words
which he before had read. --Fuller.
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2. To sing or repeat a tune. [Obs.] --Shak.
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Whether the birds or she recorded best. --W. Browne.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Record \Rec"ord\ (r[e^]k"[~e]rd), n. [OF. recort, record,
remembrance, attestation, record. See Record, v. t.]
1. A writing by which some act or event, or a number of acts
or events, is recorded; a register; as, a record of the
acts of the Hebrew kings; a record of the variations of
temperature during a certain time; a family record.
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2. Especially:
(a) An official contemporaneous writing by which the acts
of some public body, or public officer, are recorded;
as, a record of city ordinances; the records of the
receiver of taxes.
(b) An authentic official copy of a document which has
been entered in a book, or deposited in the keeping of
some officer designated by law.
(c) An official contemporaneous memorandum stating the
proceedings of a court of justice; a judicial record.
(d) The various legal papers used in a case, together with
memoranda of the proceedings of the court; as, it is
not permissible to allege facts not in the record.
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3. Testimony; witness; attestation.
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John bare record, saying. --John i. 32.
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4. That which serves to perpetuate a knowledge of acts or
events; a monument; a memorial.
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5. That which has been, or might be, recorded; the known
facts in the course, progress, or duration of anything, as
in the life of a public man; as, a politician with a good
or a bad record.
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6. That which has been publicly achieved in any kind of
competitive sport as recorded in some authoritative
manner, as the time made by a winning horse in a race.
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Court of record (pron. r?*k?rd" in Eng.), a court whose
acts and judicial proceedings are written on parchment or
in books for a perpetual memorial.

Debt of record, a debt which appears to be due by the
evidence of a court of record, as upon a judgment or a
cognizance.

Trial by record, a trial which is had when a matter of
record is pleaded, and the opposite party pleads that
there is no such record. In this case the trial is by
inspection of the record itself, no other evidence being
admissible. --Blackstone.

To beat the record, or To break the record (Sporting), to
surpass any performance of like kind as authoritatively
recorded; as, to break the record in a walking match.

Note: Records in many fields of endeavor are listed in the [a
href="http:]/www.guinessworldrecords.com">Guiness Book
of World Records.
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WordNet record
n 1: anything (such as a document or a phonograph record or a
photograph) providing permanent evidence of or
information about past events; "the film provided a
valuable record of stage techniques"
2: the number of wins versus losses and ties a team has had;
"at 9-0 they have the best record in their league"
3: an extreme attainment; the best (or worst) performance ever
attested (as in a sport); "he tied the Olympic record";
"coffee production last year broke all previous records";
"Chicago set the homicide record"
4: sound recording consisting of a disc with continuous
grooves; formerly used to reproduce music by rotating
while a phonograph needle tracked in the grooves [syn: {phonograph
record}, phonograph recording, disk, disc, platter]
5: the sum of recognized accomplishments; "the lawyer has a
good record"; "the track record shows that he will be a
good president" [syn: track record]
6: a list of crimes for which an accused person has been
previously convicted; "he ruled that the criminal record
of the defendant could not be disclosed to the court";
"the prostitute had a record a mile long" [syn: {criminal
record}]
7: a compilation of the known facts regarding something or
someone; "Al Smith used to say, `Let's look at the
record'"; "his name is in all the recordbooks" [syn: {record
book}, book]
8: a document that can serve as legal evidence of a
transaction; "they could find no record of the purchase"
v 1: make a record of; set down in permanent form [syn: enter,
put down]
2: register electronically; "They recorded her singing" [syn: tape]
[ant: erase]
3: indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments; "The
thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero"; "The
gauge read `empty'" [syn: read, register, show]
4: be aware of; "Did you register any change when I pressed the
button?" [syn: register]
5: be or provide a memorial to a person or an event; "This
sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration
camps"; "We memorialized the Dead" [syn: commemorate, memorialize,
memorialise, immortalize, immortalise]

Moby Dictionary
CD , Clio , Muse of history , accomplishment , accomplishments ,
account , account rendered , accounting , acme , acta , adventures ,
album , annals , annual , archives , authority , authorization ,
autobiography , be-all and end-all , biograph , biographical sketch ,
biographize , biography , blue ribbon , book , brief , bulletin ,
calendar , cartridge , carve , case history , cassette , catalog ,
catalogue , census report , chalk , chalk up , championship , check in ,
check sheet , chronicle , chronicles , chronology , clock card ,
command , confessions , confidentially , control , copy , copy out ,
curriculum vitae , cut , data , date slip , datebook , daybook , deeds ,
diary , directorship , disc , distance , docket , document ,
documentation , dominion , dossier , draft , draw up , edit ,
effectiveness , election returns , electrical transcription , enface ,
engrave , engross , enroll , enscroll , enter , enumerate , evidence ,
experiences , extreme , file , fill out , first place , first prize ,
fortunes , grave , hagiography , hagiology , headship , hegemony ,
height , highest , historify , historiography , history , impanel ,
imperium , in confidence , incise , index , indicate , influence ,
information , inscribe , insert , itemize , jot down , journal ,
jurisdiction , kingship , leadership , legend , life , life and letters ,
life story , list , log , lordship , make a memorandum , make a note ,
make a recension , make an entry , make out , management , mark ,
mark down , martyrology , mastership , mastery , matriculate , maximum ,
memento , memoir , memoirs , memorabilia , memorandum , memorial ,
memorials , minute , minutes , monument , most , narrate , ne plus ultra ,
necrology , new high , not for publication , notation , note ,
note down , obituary , off the record , palms , paramountcy , pen ,
pencil , phonograph record , photobiography , place upon record ,
platter , poll , post , post up , power , presidency , primacy ,
privately , proceedings , profile , push the pen , put down ,
put in writing , put on paper , put on tape , read , recense , recite ,
recording , recount , reduce to writing , register , registry , relate ,
release , report , reputation , resume , returns , revise , rewrite ,
rule , say , scribe , scrive , scroll , secretly , set down , single ,
souvenir , sovereignty , spill ink , spoil paper , statement , story ,
sub rosa , superscribe , supremacy , sway , tabulate , take down , tally ,
tape , tape cartridge , tape cassette , tape recording , tape-record ,
the record , theory of history , time , time book , time chart ,
time scale , time schedule , time sheet , time study , timecard ,
timetable , top spot , trace , track record , transactions , transcribe ,
transcription , type , unofficially , videotape , wax , wire recording ,
write , write down , write in , write out , write up , yearbook ,
zenith

FOLDOC record

An ordered set of fields,
usually stored contiguously. The term is used with similar
meaning in several different contexts. In a file, a "record"
probably has some fixed length, in contrast to a "line" which
may have any length and is terminated by some End Of Line
sequence). A database record is also called a "row". In a
spreadsheet it is always called a "row". Some programming
languages use the term to mean a type composed of fields of
several other types (C calls this a "struct").

In all these cases, a record represents an entity with certain
field values.

Fields may be of a fixed width (bits or characters) or
they may be separated by a delimiter character, often
comma (CSV) or HT (TSV).

In a database the list of values of a given field from all
records is called a column.

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RECORD, evidence. A written memorial made by a public officer authorized by law to perform that function, and intended to serve as evidence of something written, said, or done. 6 Call, 78; 1 Dana, 595. 2. Records may be divided into those which relate to the proceedings of congress and the state legislatures -- the courts of common law -- the courts of chancery -- and those which are made so by statutory provisions. 3.-1. Legislative acts. The acts of congress and of the several legislatures are the highest kind of records. The printed journals of congress have been so considered. 1 Whart. Dig. tit. Evidence, pl. 112 and see Dougl. 593; Cowp. 17. 4.-2. The proceedings of the courts of common law are records. But every minute made by a clerk of a court for his own future guidance in making up his record, is not a record. 4 Wash. C. C. Rep. 698. 5.-3. Proceedings in courts of chancery are said not to be, strictly speaking, records; but they are so considered. Gresley on Ev. 101. 6.-4. The legislatures of the several states have made the enrollment of certain deeds and other documents necessary in order to perpetuate the memory of the facts they contain, and declared that the copies thus made should have the effect of records. 7. By the constitution of the United States, art. 4. s. 1, it is declared that "full faith and credit shall be given, in each state, to the public acts, records and judicial proceedings of every other state; and the congress may, by general laws, prescribe the manner in which such acts, records and proceedings shall be proved, and the effect thereof." In pursuance of this power, congress have passed several acts directing the manner of authenticating public records, which will be found under the article Authentication. 8. Numerous decisions have been made under these acts, some of which are here referred to. 7 Cranch, 471; 3 Wheat. 234; 4 Cowen, 292; 1 N. H. Rep. 242; 1 Ohio Reports, 264; 2 Verm. R. 263; 5 John. R. 37; 4 Conn. R. 380; 9 Mass 462; 10 Serg. & Rawle, 240; 1 Hall's N. York Rep. 155; 4 Dall. 412; 5 Serg. & Rawle, 523; 1 Pet. S. C. Rep. 352. Vide, generally, 18 Vin. Ab. 17; 1 Phil. Ev. 288; Bac. Ab. Amendment, &c., H; 1 Kent, Com. 260; Archb. Civ. Pl. 395; Gresley on Ev. 99; Stark. Ev. Index, h.t.; Dane's Ab. Index, h.t.; Co. Litt. 260; 10 Pick. R. 72; Bouv. Inst. Index, h.t.