record

Meanings

Noun

• An item of information put into a temporary or permanent physical medium.
• Any instance of a physical medium on which information was put for the purpose of preserving it and making it available for future reference.
• : a disc, usually made from vinyl, on which sound is recorded and may be replayed on a phonograph.
• A set of data relating to a single individual or item.
• A data structure similar to a struct, in some programming languages such as C# and Java based on classes and designed for storing immutable data.
• The most extreme known value of some variable, particularly that of an achievement in competitive events.

Verb

• To make a record of information.
• To make an audio or video recording of.
• To give legal status to by making an official public record.
• To fix in a medium, usually in a tangible medium.
• To make an audio, video, or multimedia recording.
• To repeat; to practice.
• To sing or repeat a tune.
• To reflect; to ponder.

Related

Opposite words

• erase

Narrower meaning words

• activation record
• broken record
• data record
• public record
• world record

Origin

• From Middle English, borrowed from Old French record, from recorder. See record (verb).
• From Middle English recorden ("to repeat, to report"), borrowed from Old French recorder ("to get by heart"), from Latin recordārī, present active infinitive of recordor, from re- + cor.