record
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rĕkʹôrd
ipa: /ˈɹɛk.ɔːd/
enpr: rĕkʹərd
enpr: rĕkʹôrd
ipa: /ˈɹɛk.ɚd/
ipa: /ˈɹɛk.ɔɹd/
rhymes: -ɛkɔː(ɹ)d
rhymes: -ɛkə(ɹ)d
ipa: /ɹɨˈkɔːd/
enpr: rĭ-kôrdʹ
ipa: /ɹɪˈkɔɹd/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
enpr: rĕkʹôrd
ipa: /ˈɹɛk.ɔːd/
enpr: rĕkʹərd
enpr: rĕkʹôrd
ipa: /ˈɹɛk.ɚd/
ipa: /ˈɹɛk.ɔɹd/
rhymes: -ɛkɔː(ɹ)d
rhymes: -ɛkə(ɹ)d
Forms: form: records
form: recording
form: recorded
form: recorded
Etymology: From Middle English recorden (“to repeat, to report”), borrowed from Old French recorder (“to get by heart”), from Latin recordārī (“remember, call to mind”), from re- (“back, again”) + cor (“heart; mind”).
Senses: examples: text: I wanted to record every detail of what happened, for the benefit of future generations.
text: The display and result must be placed in the context that was it was against a side that looked every bit their Fifa world ranking of 141 - but England completed the job with efficiency to record their biggest away win in 19 years.
ref: 2012 September 7, Phil McNulty, “Moldova 0-5 England”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To make a record of information.
examples: text: Within a week they had recorded both the song and the video for it.
text: However, the ability to record people without their knowledge, with the stroke of a finger over the spectacle frame or a voice command, has prompted privacy concerns.
ref: 2014 June 29, Adam Sherwin, “UK cinemas ban Google glasses over piracy risk”, in The Independent:
glosses: To make an audio or video recording of.
examples: text: When the deed was recorded, we officially owned the house.
topics: law
glosses: To give legal status to by making an official public record.
glosses: To fix in a medium, usually in a tangible medium.
glosses: To make an audio, video, or multimedia recording.
glosses: To repeat; to practice.
examples: text: 1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 741-742,
Come Berecynthia, let vs in likewise,
And heare the Nightingale record hir notes.
text: They long’d to see the day, to heare the larke
Record her hymnes and chant her carols blest,
ref: 1600, Torquato Tasso, translated by Edward Fairfax, Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem, London: I. Iaggard and M. Lownes, Book 2, p. 39:
text: […] to the lute
She sung, and made the night-bird mute,
That still records with moan;
ref: c. 1607–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, [George Wilkins?], The Late, and Much Admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: […] [William White and Thomas Creede] for Henry Gosson, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act IV, prologue]:
text: […] the Nymph did earnestly contest
Whether the Birds or she recorded best […]
ref: 1616, William Browne, Britannia’s Pastorals, London: John Haviland, published 1625, Book 2, Song 4, p. 129:
glosses: To sing or repeat a tune.
examples: text: […] he was […] carried to the Scaffold on the Tower-hill […], himself praying all the way, and recording upon the words which he before had read.
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, “Section 3”, in The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI), page 204:
glosses: To reflect; to ponder.
Derived terms: over-record
pre-record
recordable
recordal
recordance
recordation
recorder
recording
rerecord
re-record
self-recording
tape-record
unrecorded