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▸ noun: the sum of recognized accomplishments ("The lawyer has a good record")
▸ noun: an extreme attainment; the best (or worst) performance ever attested (as in a sport) ("He tied the Olympic record")
▸ noun: a compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone ("Al Smith used to say, `Let's look at the record'")
▸ noun: 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")
▸ noun: a document that can serve as legal evidence of a transaction ("They could find no record of the purchase")
▸ noun: the number of wins versus losses and ties a team has had ("At 9-0 they have the best record in their league")
▸ noun: 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")
▸ noun: sound recording consisting of a disc with continuous grooves; formerly used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracked in the grooves
▸ verb: be aware of
▸ verb: register electronically ("They recorded her singing")
▸ verb: make a record of; set down in permanent form
▸ verb: indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments
▸ verb: be or provide a memorial to a person or an event
▸ name: A surname (common: 1 in 100000 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #10031)
▸ Also see records
▸ Word origin
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▸ Usage examples for record
▸ Idioms related to record (New!)
▸ Popular adjectives describing record
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▸ noun: the sum of recognized accomplishments ("The lawyer has a good record")
▸ noun: an extreme attainment; the best (or worst) performance ever attested (as in a sport) ("He tied the Olympic record")
▸ noun: a compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone ("Al Smith used to say, `Let's look at the record'")
▸ noun: 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")
▸ noun: a document that can serve as legal evidence of a transaction ("They could find no record of the purchase")
▸ noun: the number of wins versus losses and ties a team has had ("At 9-0 they have the best record in their league")
▸ noun: 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")
▸ noun: sound recording consisting of a disc with continuous grooves; formerly used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracked in the grooves
▸ verb: be aware of
▸ verb: register electronically ("They recorded her singing")
▸ verb: make a record of; set down in permanent form
▸ verb: indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments
▸ verb: be or provide a memorial to a person or an event
▸ name: A surname (common: 1 in 100000 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #10031)
▸ Also see records
▸ Word origin
▸ Words similar to record
▸ Usage examples for record
▸ Idioms related to record (New!)
▸ Popular adjectives describing record
▸ Words that often appear near record
▸ Rhymes of record
▸ Invented words related to record