What is record?

More definitions of "record":

• (noun): An extreme attainment; the best (or worst) performance ever attested (as in a sport).
  Example: "He tied the Olympic record"; "coffee production last year broke all previous records"; "Chicago set the homicide record"

• (noun): The number of wins versus losses and ties a team has had.
  Example: "At 9-0 they have the best record in their league"

• (noun): The sum of recognized accomplishments.
  Example: "The lawyer has a good record"; "the track record shows that he will be a good president"
  Synonyms: track record

• (verb): Make a record of; set down in permanent form.
  Synonyms: enter, put down

• (noun): A list of crimes for which an accused person has been previously convicted.
  Example: "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

• (verb): Register electronically.
  Synonyms: tape

• (verb): Indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments.
  Synonyms: read, register, show

• (noun): Anything (such as a document or a phonograph record or a photograph) providing permanent evidence of or information about past events.
  Example: "The film provided a valuable record of stage techniques"

• (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.
  Synonyms: phonograph record, phonograph recording, disk, disc, platter

• (verb): Be or provide a memorial to a person or an event.
  Synonyms: commemorate, memorialize, memorialise, immortalize, immortalise

• (noun): A compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone.
  Example: "Al Smith used to say, 'Let's look at the record'"
  Synonyms: record book, book

• (noun): A document that can serve as legal evidence of a transaction.
  Example: "They could find no record of the purchase"

Famous quotes containing the word record:

“The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.”
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)

“He will not idly dance at his work who has wood to cut and cord before nightfall in the short days of winter; but every stroke will be husbanded, and ring soberly through the wood; and so will the strokes of that scholar’s pen, which at evening record the story of the day, ring soberly, yet cheerily, on the ear of the reader, long after the echoes of his axe have died away.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“This play holds the season’s record [for early closing], thus far, with a run of four evening performances and one matinee. By an odd coincidence it ran just five performances too many.”
—Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)