English dictionary
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English noun: record | |||
| 1. | record (communication) anything (such as a document or a phonograph record or a photograph) providing permanent evidence of or information about past events | ||
| Samples | The film provided a valuable record of stage techniques. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | evidence | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | account, check stub, chronicle, counterfoil, data file, file, history, memorabilia, story, stub, working papers, written account, written record | ||
| Domain category | photography, picture taking | ||
| 2. | record (artifact) sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove | ||
| Synonyms | disc, disk, phonograph record, phonograph recording, platter | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | audio, audio recording, sound recording | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | 78, L-P, LP, seventy-eight | ||
| Part holonym | acetate disk, phonograph recording disk | ||
| 3. | record (quantity) the number of wins versus losses and ties a team has had | ||
| Samples | At 9-0 they have the best record in their league. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | number | ||
| 4. | record (act) the sum of recognized accomplishments | ||
| Samples | The lawyer has a good record. The track record shows that he will be a good president. | ||
| Synonyms | track record | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | accomplishment, achievement | ||
| 5. | record (communication) a compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone | ||
| Samples | Al Smith used to say, `Let's look at the record'. His name is in all the record books. | ||
| Synonyms | book, record book | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | fact | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | card, logbook, scorecard, won-lost record | ||
| 6. | record (act) an extreme attainment; the best (or worst) performance ever attested (as in a sport) | ||
| Samples | He tied the Olympic record. Coffee production last year broke all previous records. Chicago set the homicide record. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | attainment | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | track record, world record | ||
| 7. | record (possession) a document that can serve as legal evidence of a transaction | ||
| Samples | They could find no record of the purchase. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | document | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | account book, balance sheet, bankbook, book, book of account, checkbook, chequebook, expense record, ledger, leger, passbook, payslip, register | ||
| Domain category | jurisprudence, law | ||
| 8. | record (communication) a list of crimes for which an accused person has been previously convicted | ||
| Samples | He ruled that the criminal record of the defendant could not be disclosed to the court. The prostitute had a record a mile long. | ||
| Synonyms | criminal record | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | list, listing | ||
English verb: record | |||
| 1. | record (communication) make a record of; set down in permanent form | ||
| Synonyms | enter, put down | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody. Something ----s somebody. Something ----s something. Somebody ----s that CLAUSE | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | preserve, save | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | accession, book, chalk up, chronicle, clock in, clock on, clock up, document, file, file away, film, film, inscribe, keep, log, log up, maintain, manifest, mark, notch, photograph, post, punch in, record, register, ring up, score, shoot, shoot, snap, take, tally, tape, tape, videotape | ||
| Domain category | recording, transcription | ||
| 2. | record (communication) register electronically | ||
| Samples | They recorded her singing. | ||
| Examples | They will record the duet | ||
| Synonyms | tape | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody. Something ----s somebody. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | enter, put down, record | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | cut, cut, prerecord, save, tape record, write | ||
| Antonyms | delete, erase | ||
| 3. | record (communication) indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments | ||
| Samples | The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero. The gauge read `empty'. | ||
| Synonyms | read, register, show | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | indicate | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | say, show, strike | ||
| 4. | record (perception) be aware of | ||
| Samples | Did you register any change when I pressed the button?. | ||
| Synonyms | register | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody. Something ----s something | ||
| Entail | comprehend, perceive | ||
| Verb group | register, register | ||
| 5. | record (cognition) be or provide a memorial to a person or an event | ||
| Samples | This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps. We memorialized the Dead. | ||
| Synonyms | commemorate, immortalise, immortalize, memorialise, memorialize | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody. Something ----s somebody. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | remind | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | monumentalise, monumentalize | ||
Based on WordNet 3.0 copyright © Princeton University.
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