record

Noun

record (plural records)

1. An item of information put into a temporary or permanent physical medium.
   • The person had a record of the interview so she could review her notes.
   • The tourist's photographs and the tape of the police call provide a record of the crime.
2. Any instance of a physical medium on which information was put for the purpose of preserving it and making it available for future reference.
   • We have no record of you making this payment to us.
   • My remarks were struck from the record.

   Synonyms:

   log

3. (broadly, informal) A music album; broadly, any music released as a single, EP, etc.

   Synonyms:

   disc, phonograph record, vinyl

4. A set of data relating to a single individual or item.
   • Pull up the record on John Smith. What's his medical history?
5. A data structure similar to a struct, in some programming languages such as C and Java based on classes and designed for storing immutable data.
   • This chapter examines another data structure, the record (available in Pascal but not in all other high-level languages). Records make it easier to organize and represent information in Pascal, a major reason for the popularity of the Pascal[…]1989, Elliot B. Koffman, Pascal: Problem Solving and Program Design, Addison-Wesley, →ISBN, page 406
   • The new record type provides another solution. A record is a class-like construct for data classes, a restricted form of class like enums and annotations.2020, Ian F. Darwin, Java Cookbook, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 232
6. The most extreme known value of some variable, particularly that of an achievement in competitive events.
   • The heat and humidity were both new records.
   • Australia set a record of 10 back-to-back T20I wins.

Adjective

record (not comparable)

1. (attributive) Enough to break previous records and set a new one; world-class; historic.
   • "But it's far worse for me," said Edmund, "because you'll at least have a room of your own and I shall have to share a bedroom with that record stinker, Eustace."1952, C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

   Synonyms:

   record-breaking, record-setting

Verb

UK/ɹɪˈkɔːd/US/ɹɪˈkɔɹd/

record (third-person singular simple present records, present participle recording, simple past and past participle recorded)

1. (transitive) To make a record of information.
   • I wanted to record every detail of what happened, for the benefit of future generations.
   • The display and result must be placed in the context that was it was against a side that looked every bit their Fifa world ranking of 141 - but England completed the job with efficiency to record their biggest away win in 19 years.2012 September 7, Phil McNulty, “Moldova 0-5 England”, in BBC Sport
2. (transitive) To make an audio or video recording of.
   • Within a week they had recorded both the song and the video for it.
   • However, the ability to record people without their knowledge, with the stroke of a finger over the spectacle frame or a voice command, has prompted privacy concerns.2014 June 29, Adam Sherwin, “UK cinemas ban Google glasses over piracy risk”, in The Independent

   Synonyms:

   catch

3. (transitive) To give legal status to by making an official public record.
   • When the deed was recorded, we officially owned the house.
4. (intransitive) To fix in a medium, usually in a tangible medium.
5. (intransitive) To make an audio, video, or multimedia recording.
6. (intransitive, obsolete, transitive) To repeat; to practice.
7. (ambitransitive, obsolete) To sing or repeat a tune.
   • Come Berecynthia, let vs in likewise,
     And heare the Nightingale record hir notes.1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 741-742
   • They long’d to see the day, to heare the larke
     Record her hymnes and chant her carols blest,1600, Torquato Tasso, translated by Edward Fairfax, Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem, London: I. Iaggard and M. Lownes, Book 2, p. 39
8. (obsolete) To reflect; to ponder.
   • […] he was […] carried to the Scaffold on the Tower-hill […], himself praying all the way, and recording upon the words which he before had read.1655, Thomas Fuller, “Section 3”, in The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI), page 204

Proper noun capitalized: Record

Record (plural Records)

1. A surname.