document
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
human-sciences
information-science
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French document, from Latin documentum.
Inflected forms:
form: documents
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: documents
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: documenting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: documented
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: documented
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An original or official paper used as the basis, proof, or support of anything else, including any writing, book, or other instrument conveying information pertinent to such proof or support.
pos: noun
examples: Saint Luke […] collected them from such documents and testimonies as he […] judged to be authentic.
gloss: Any material substance on which the information is represented by writing.
pos: noun
examples: If a morsel of food fell off your plate, the advice of one contemporary document was to pick it up, make the sign of the cross over it, season it well - and then eat it.
gloss: A file that contains text.
pos: noun
examples: That exception is the HTML <IMG> tag–which transcludes an image into the context of the document. The image itself is neither embedded within the document nor copied—it is transcluded.
gloss: An object conveying information by whatever means, capable of being indexed alongside other similar objects.
pos: noun
examples: This study examines video game photography as a documentary practice. […] The three themes from this study's findings – that video game photographs act as (1) vehicles for storytelling, (2) creative trophies, and (3) aesthetic tokens – reveal how personally meaningful documents emerge from this medium.
gloss: That which is taught or authoritatively set forth; precept; instruction; dogma.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: And particularly they should take care that the memory of the learner be not too much crowded with a tumultuous heap or overbearing multitude of documents or ideas at one time.
gloss: An example for instruction or warning.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: They were forthwith stoned to death, as a document to others.
gloss: To record in documents.
pos: verb
examples: He documented each step of the process as he did it, which was good when the investigation occurred.
The relationship between memory as lived and history as documented is always a complex dialogue — each informing, and disinforming, the other.
“Natural languages are adequate, but that doesn’t mean they’re optimal,” John Quijada, a fifty-three-year-old former employee of the California State Department of Motor Vehicles, told me. In 2004, he published a monograph on the Internet that was titled “Ithkuil: A Philosophical Design for a Hypothetical Language.” Written like a linguistics textbook, the fourteen-page Web site ran to almost a hundred and sixty thousand words. It documented the grammar, syntax, and lexicon of a language that Quijada had spent three decades inventing in his spare time.
Significantly, on documenting Thomas's subsequent outlawry and Margery's waivery, the court clerk recorded that it was not known whether they had any chattels because they were strangers.
gloss: To furnish with documents or papers necessary to establish facts or give information.
pos: verb
examples: A ship should be documented according to the directions of law.
Related words: docent
docile
doctor
doctorate
doctrinaire
doctrinal
doctrine
indoctrinate
Derived words: ancient document
doculect
documental
documentality
documentarian
documentary
document camera
document management system
documentology
document-oriented
document retrieval
document structuring
document-style
e-document
electronic document
here-document
hyperdocument
identity document
interdocument
intradocument
liquid document
metadocument
microdocument
multidocument
multidocuments
source document
subdocument
travel document
documentability
documentable
documentation
documentor
misdocument
nondocumented
overdocument
overdocumented
photodocument
redocument
underdocumented
undocument
undocumented
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