record
    n 1: anything (such as a document or a phonograph record or a
         photograph) providing permanent evidence of or information
         about past events; "the film provided a valuable record of
         stage techniques"
    2: sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous
       groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a
       phonograph needle tracks in the groove [syn: phonograph
       record, phonograph recording, record, disk, disc,
       platter]
    3: the number of wins versus losses and ties a team has had; "at
       9-0 they have the best record in their league"
    4: the sum of recognized accomplishments; "the lawyer has a good
       record"; "the track record shows that he will be a good
       president" [syn: record, track record]
    5: a compilation of the known facts regarding something or
       someone; "Al Smith used to say, `Let's look at the record'";
       "his name is in all the record books" [syn: record, record
       book, book]
    6: an extreme attainment; the best (or worst) performance ever
       attested (as in a sport); "he tied the Olympic record";
       "coffee production last year broke all previous records";
       "Chicago set the homicide record"
    7: a document that can serve as legal evidence of a transaction;
       "they could find no record of the purchase"
    8: a list of crimes for which an accused person has been
       previously convicted; "he ruled that the criminal record of
       the defendant could not be disclosed to the court"; "the
       prostitute had a record a mile long" [syn: criminal record,
       record]
    v 1: make a record of; set down in permanent form [syn:
         record, enter, put down]
    2: register electronically; "They recorded her singing" [syn:
       record, tape] [ant: delete, erase]
    3: indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments; "The
       thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero"; "The gauge
       read `empty'" [syn: read, register, show, record]
    4: be aware of; "Did you register any change when I pressed the
       button?" [syn: record, register]
    5: be or provide a memorial to a person or an event; "This
       sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration
       camps"; "We memorialized the Dead" [syn: commemorate,
       memorialize, memorialise, immortalize, immortalise,
       record]

Record \Re*cord"\, v. i.
   1. To reflect; to ponder. [Obs.]
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            Praying all the way, and recording upon the words
            which he before had read.             --Fuller.
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   2. To sing or repeat a tune. [Obs.] --Shak.
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            Whether the birds or she recorded best. --W. Browne.
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Record \Re*cord"\ (r?*k?rd"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Recorded; p.
   pr. & vb. n. Recording.] [OE. recorden to repeat, remind,
   F. recorder, fr. L. recordari to remember; pref. re- re- +
   cor, cordis, the heart or mind. See Cordial, Heart.]
   1. To recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate.
      [Obs.] "I it you record." --Chaucer.
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   2. To repeat; to recite; to sing or play. [Obs.]
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            They longed to see the day, to hear the lark
            Record her hymns, and chant her carols blest.
                                                  --Fairfax.
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   3. To preserve the memory of, by committing to writing, to
      printing, to inscription, or the like; to make note of; to
      write or enter in a book or on parchment, for the purpose
      of preserving authentic evidence of; to register; to
      enroll; as, to record the proceedings of a court; to
      record historical events.
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            Those things that are recorded of him . . . are
            written in the chronicles of the kings. --1 Esd. i.
                                                  42.
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   To record a deed, mortgage, lease, etc., to have a copy
      of the same entered in the records of the office
      designated by law, for the information of the public.
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Record \Rec"ord\ (r[e^]k"[~e]rd), n. [OF. recort, record,
   remembrance, attestation, record. See Record, v. t.]
   1. A writing by which some act or event, or a number of acts
      or events, is recorded; a register; as, a record of the
      acts of the Hebrew kings; a record of the variations of
      temperature during a certain time; a family record.
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   2. Especially:
      (a) An official contemporaneous writing by which the acts
          of some public body, or public officer, are recorded;
          as, a record of city ordinances; the records of the
          receiver of taxes.
      (b) An authentic official copy of a document which has
          been entered in a book, or deposited in the keeping of
          some officer designated by law.
      (c) An official contemporaneous memorandum stating the
          proceedings of a court of justice; a judicial record.
      (d) The various legal papers used in a case, together with
          memoranda of the proceedings of the court; as, it is
          not permissible to allege facts not in the record.
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   3. Testimony; witness; attestation.
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            John bare record, saying.             --John i. 32.
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   4. That which serves to perpetuate a knowledge of acts or
      events; a monument; a memorial.
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   5. That which has been, or might be, recorded; the known
      facts in the course, progress, or duration of anything, as
      in the life of a public man; as, a politician with a good
      or a bad record.
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   6. That which has been publicly achieved in any kind of
      competitive sport as recorded in some authoritative
      manner, as the time made by a winning horse in a race.
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   Court of record (pron. r?*k?rd" in Eng.), a court whose
      acts and judicial proceedings are written on parchment or
      in books for a perpetual memorial.

   Debt of record, a debt which appears to be due by the
      evidence of a court of record, as upon a judgment or a
      cognizance.

   Trial by record, a trial which is had when a matter of
      record is pleaded, and the opposite party pleads that
      there is no such record. In this case the trial is by
      inspection of the record itself, no other evidence being
      admissible. --Blackstone.

   To beat the record, or To break the record (Sporting), to
      surpass any performance of like kind as authoritatively
      recorded; as, to break the record in a walking match.

   Note: Records in many fields of endeavor are listed in the [a
         href="http:]/www.guinessworldrecords.com">Guiness Book
         of World Records.
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record
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    An ordered set of fields,
   usually stored contiguously.  The term is used with similar
   meaning in several different contexts.  In a file, a "record"
   probably has some fixed length, in contrast to a "line" which
   may have any length and is terminated by some End Of Line
   sequence).  A database record is also called a "row".  In a
   spreadsheet it is always called a "row".  Some programming
   languages use the term to mean a type composed of fields of
   several other types (C calls this a "struct").

   In all these cases, a record represents an entity with certain
   field values.

   Fields may be of a fixed width (bits or characters) or
   they may be separated by a delimiter character, often
   comma (CSV) or HT (TSV).

   In a database the list of values of a given field from all
   records is called a column.

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RECORD, evidence. A written memorial made by a public officer authorized by 
law to perform that function, and intended to serve as evidence of something 
written, said, or done. 6 Call, 78; 1 Dana, 595. 
     2. Records may be divided into those which relate to the proceedings of 
congress and the state legislatures -- the courts of common law -- the 
courts of chancery -- and those which are made so by statutory provisions. 
     3.-1. Legislative acts. The acts of congress and of the several 
legislatures are the highest kind of records. The printed journals of 
congress have been so considered. 1 Whart. Dig. tit. Evidence, pl. 112 and 
see Dougl. 593; Cowp. 17. 
     4.-2. The proceedings of the courts of common law are records. But 
every minute made by a clerk of a court for his own future guidance in 
making up his record, is not a record. 4 Wash. C. C. Rep. 698. 
     5.-3. Proceedings in courts of chancery are said not to be, strictly 
speaking, records; but they are so considered. Gresley on Ev. 101. 
     6.-4. The legislatures of the several states have made the enrollment 
of certain deeds and other documents necessary in order to perpetuate the 
memory of the facts they contain, and declared that the copies thus made 
should have the effect of records. 
     7. By the constitution of the United States, art. 4. s. 1, it is 
declared that "full faith and credit shall be given, in each state, to the 
public acts, records and judicial proceedings of every other state; and the 
congress may, by general laws, prescribe the manner in which such acts, 
records and proceedings shall be proved, and the effect thereof." In 
pursuance of this power, congress have passed several acts directing the 
manner of authenticating public records, which will be found under the 
article Authentication. 
     8. Numerous decisions have been made under these acts, some of which 
are here referred to. 7 Cranch, 471; 3 Wheat. 234; 4 Cowen, 292; 1 N. H. 
Rep. 242; 1 Ohio Reports, 264; 2 Verm. R. 263; 5 John. R. 37; 4 Conn. R. 
380; 9 Mass 462; 10 Serg. & Rawle, 240; 1 Hall's N. York Rep. 155; 4 Dall. 
412; 5 Serg. & Rawle, 523; 1 Pet. S. C. Rep. 352. Vide, generally, 18 Vin. 
Ab. 17; 1  Phil. Ev. 288; Bac. Ab. Amendment, &c., H; 1 Kent, Com. 260; 
Archb. Civ. Pl. 395; Gresley on Ev. 99; Stark. Ev. Index, h.t.; Dane's Ab. 
Index, h.t.; Co. Litt. 260; 10 Pick. R. 72; Bouv. Inst. Index, h.t.