record
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: 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
Etymology: From Middle English recorde, borrowed from Old French record, from recorder. See record (verb).
Senses: examples: text: The person had a record of the interview so she could review her notes.
text: The tourist's photographs and the tape of the police call provide a record of the crime.
text: He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.
ref: 2012 March-April, John T. Jost, “Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 13 Feb 2012, page 162:
glosses: An item of information put into a temporary or permanent physical medium.
examples: text: We have no record of you making this payment to us.
synonyms: log
glosses: Any instance of a physical medium on which information was put for the purpose of preserving it and making it available for future reference.
examples: text: I still like records better than CDs.
text: He's the record doctor / Tell him your woes / He'll reach in his bag / And he'll give you a dose
ref: 2012, “Record Doctor”, performed by Saint Etienne:
synonyms: disc
phonograph record
vinyl
glosses: Ellipsis of phonograph record (“a disc, usually made from vinyl, on which sound is recorded and may be replayed on a phonograph”).
examples: text: Pull up the record on John Smith. What's his medical history?
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A set of data relating to a single individual or item.
examples: text: This chapter examines another data structure, the record (available in Pascal but not in all other high-level languages). Records make it easier to organize and represent information in Pascal, a major reason for the popularity of the Pascal[…]
ref: 1989, Elliot B. Koffman, Pascal: Problem Solving and Program Design, Addison-Wesley, →ISBN, page 406:
text: The new record type provides another solution. A record is a class-like construct for data classes, a restricted form of class like enums and annotations.
ref: 2020, Ian F. Darwin, Java Cookbook, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 232:
text: A record is a special kind of class that's designed to work well with immutable (readonly) data.
ref: 2021, Joseph Albahari, C# 9.0 in a Nutshell, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 210:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
coordinate_terms: struct
enumeration
glosses: 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.
examples: text: The heat and humidity were both new records.
text: Australia set a record of 10 back-to-back T20I wins.
text: He broke the record for the youngest English captain.
text: The team set a new record for most points scored in a game.
text: "Avanti has literally broken records over the last six months for delays and cancellations, and the Conservatives' answer is to reward failure with millions more in taxpayer cash," said Labour Shadow Transport Secretary Louise Haigh.
ref: 2023 April 5, “Network News: Conservatives accused of "rewarding Avanti's failure"”, in RAIL, number 980, page 6:
glosses: The most extreme known value of some variable, particularly that of an achievement in competitive events.
Hyponyms: activation record
broken record
data record
public record
world record
Derived terms: activation record
address of record
attorney of record
attorney record
broken record
business record
change the record
court of record
criminal record
data record
extract from the judicial record
for the record
fossil record
glue record
golden record
gold record
go on record
gramophone record
in record time
lap record
master boot record
matter of record
medical record
memo for record
memo for the record
memorandum for record
memorandum for the record
off record
off-the-record
off the record
of record
on record
on the record
personal record
phonograph record
police record
principal record
production record
public record
put the record straight
race record
record book
record-breaker
record-breaking
record changer
record chart
record communication
record company
record deal
record holder
record-holder
record hop
record keeper
recordkeeper
record-keeping
record keeping
record label
record locator
record player
record producer
record-set
record set
record-setting
record shop
record sleeve
record store
rock record
service record
set the record straight
stock of record
stuck record
track record
vinyl record
world record
written record