Record

To recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate.

To repeat; to recite; to sing or play.

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.

To reflect; to ponder.

To sing or repeat a tune.

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.

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.

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.

An official contemporaneous memorandum stating the proceedings of a court of justice; a judicial record.

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.

Testimony; witness; attestation.

That which serves to perpetuate a knowledge of acts or events; a monument; a memorial.

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.

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.

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"

a document that can serve as legal evidence of a transaction; "they could find no record of the purchase"

the sum of recognized accomplishments; "the lawyer has a good record"; "the track record shows that he will be a good president"

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"

indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments; "The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero"; "The gauge read ‘empty’"