| Sounds | rahkao'rd; reh'kerd; rihkao'rd | |
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| Rhymes | aboard ... Woodward: 73 rhymes with aord... | |
| Abelard ... word / Word: 269 rhymes with erd... | ||
| Meaning | Anything (such as a document or a phonograph record or a photograph) providing permanent evidence of or information about past events. | |
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| Example | "the film provided a valuable record of stage techniques" | |
| Category | photography, picture taking | The act of taking and printing photographs |
| Narrower | file, data file | A set of related records (either written or electronic) kept together |
| history, account, chronicle, story | A record or narrative description of past events | |
| memorabilia | A record of things worth remembering | |
| stub, check stub, counterfoil | The part of a check that is retained as a record | |
| working papers | records kept of activities involved in carrying out a project | |
| written record, written account | A written document preserving knowledge of facts or events | |
| Broader | evidence | An indication that makes something evident / evident |
| Catalan | constància | |
| Spanish | constancia | |
| Verbs | record | be or provide a memorial to a person or an event |
| record | make a record of | |
| Meaning | sound / sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove. | |
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| Synonyms | phonograph record, phonograph recording, disk, disc, platter | |
| Parts | acetate disk, phonograph recording disk | A disk coated with cellulose acetate |
| Narrower | LP, L-P | A long-playing phonograph record |
| seventy-eight, 78 | A shellac based phonograph record that played at 78 revolutions per minute | |
| Broader | sound recording, audio recording, audio | A recording of acoustic signals |
| Catalan | disc | |
| Spanish | disco | |
| Verbs | record | register electronically |
| Meaning | The number of wins versus losses and ties a team has had. | |
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| Example | "at 9-0 they have the best record in their league" | |
| Broader | number | A concept of quantity involving zero and units |
| Meaning | The sum of recognized accomplishments. | |
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| Synonym | track record | |
| Broader | accomplishment, achievement | The action of accomplishing something |
| Catalan | expedient | |
| Meaning | A compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone. | |
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| Synonyms | record book, book | |
| Narrower | card, scorecard | (golf) a record of scores (as in golf) |
| logbook | A book in which the log is written | |
| won-lost record | (sports) a record of win versus losses | |
| Broader | fact | A statement or assertion of verified information about something that is the case or has happened / happened |
| Catalan | registre, relació | |
| Spanish | registro, relación | |
| Meaning | An extreme / extreme attainment; the best (or worst) performance ever attested (as in a sport). | |
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| Narrower | track record | The fastest time ever recorded for a specific distance at a particular racetrack |
| world record | The best record in the whole world | |
| Broader | attainment | The act of achieving an aim |
| Catalan | marca | |
| Spanish | marca | |
| Meaning | A list of crimes for which an accused person has been previously convicted. | |
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| Synonym | criminal record | |
| Broader | list, listing | A database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics) |
| Meaning | Register electronically. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something | |
| Model | They will record the duet | |
| Example | "They recorded her singing" | |
| Synonym | tape | |
| Narrower | cut | record a performance on (a medium) |
| cut | make a recording of | |
| prerecord | record before presentation, as of a broadcast | |
| tape record | record with a tape recorder | |
| write, save | record data on a computer | |
| Broader | record, enter, put down | make a record of |
| Opposite | erase, delete | wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information |
| Catalan | enregistrar, gravar | |
| Spanish | grabar, registrar | |
| Nouns | record | sound / sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove |
| recorder | equipment for making records | |
| recording | the act of making a record (especially an audio record) | |
| Meaning | indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s something | |
| Synonyms | read, register, show | |
| Narrower | say | Indicate |
| show | Give evidence of, as of records / records / records | |
| strike | Indicate (a certain time) by striking | |
| Broader | indicate | To state or express briefly |
| Catalan | enregistrar, marcar, registrar | |
| Spanish | marcar, registrar | |
| Meaning | Be aware of. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s something | |
| Synonym | register | |
| Entails | perceive, comprehend | To become aware of through the senses |
| Similar to | register | Enter into someone's consciousness |
| register | show in one's face | |
| Spanish | registrar | |
| Meaning | Be or provide a memorial to a person or an event. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something | |
| Synonyms | commemorate, memorialize, memorialise, immortalize, immortalise | |
| Narrower | monumentalize, monumentalise | record or memorialize lastingly with a monument |
| Broader | remind | put in the mind of someone |
| Nouns | record | anything (such as a document or a phonograph record or a photograph) providing permanent evidence of or information about past events |