Dictionary entry details
• RECORD (noun)
Meaning:
Anything (such as a document or a phonograph record or a photograph) providing permanent evidence of or information about past events
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Context example:
the film provided a valuable record of stage techniques
Hypernyms ("record" is a kind of...):
evidence (an indication that makes something evident)
Domain category:
photography; picture taking (the act of taking and printing photographs)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "record"):
working papers (records kept of activities involved in carrying out a project)
account; chronicle; history; story (a record or narrative description of past events)
data file; file (a set of related records (either written or electronic) kept together)
check stub; counterfoil; stub (the part of a check that is retained as a record)
memorabilia (a record of things worth remembering)
written account; written record (a written document preserving knowledge of facts or events)
Meaning:
The number of wins versus losses and ties a team has had
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Context example:
at 9-0 they have the best record in their league
Hypernyms ("record" is a kind of...):
number (a concept of quantity derived from zero and units)
Meaning:
An extreme attainment; the best (or worst) performance ever attested (as in a sport)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Context examples:
he tied the Olympic record / coffee production last year broke all previous records / Chicago set the homicide record
Hypernyms ("record" is a kind of...):
attainment (the act of achieving an aim)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "record"):
track record (the fastest time ever recorded for a specific distance at a particular racetrack)
world record (the best record in the whole world)
Meaning:
Sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
phonograph recording; phonograph record; disc; platter; disk; record
Hypernyms ("record" is a kind of...):
audio recording; sound recording (a recording of just the sound)
Meronyms (parts of "record"):
acetate disk; phonograph recording disk (a disk coated with cellulose acetate)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "record"):
L-P; LP (a long-playing phonograph record; designed to be played at 33.3 rpm)
78; seventy-eight (a shellac based phonograph record that played at 78 revolutions per minute)
Meaning:
The sum of recognized accomplishments
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
track record; record
Context examples:
the lawyer has a good record / the track record shows that he will be a good president
Hypernyms ("record" is a kind of...):
accomplishment; achievement (the action of accomplishing something)
Meaning:
A list of crimes for which an accused person has been previously convicted
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
criminal record; record
Context examples:
he ruled that the criminal record of the defendant could not be disclosed to the court / the prostitute had a record a mile long
Hypernyms ("record" is a kind of...):
list; listing (a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics))
Meaning:
A compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
record book; book; record
Context examples:
Al Smith used to say, 'Let's look at the record' / his name is in all the record books
Hypernyms ("record" is a kind of...):
fact (a statement or assertion of verified information about something that is the case or has happened)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "record"):
card; scorecard ((golf) a record of scores (as in golf))
won-lost record ((sports) a record of win versus losses)
logbook (a book in which the log is written)
Meaning:
A document that can serve as legal evidence of a transaction
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Context example:
they could find no record of the purchase
Hypernyms ("record" is a kind of...):
document (a written account of ownership or obligation)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "record"):
checkbook; chequebook (a book issued to holders of checking accounts)
bankbook; passbook (a record of deposits and withdrawals and interest held by depositors at certain banks)
register (a book in which names and transactions are listed)
payslip (a slip of paper included with your pay that records how much money you have earned and how much tax or insurance etc. has been taken out)
account book; book; book of account; ledger; leger (a record in which commercial accounts are recorded)
expense record (a written record of money spent)
balance sheet (a record of the financial situation of an institution on a particular date by listing its assets and the claims against those assets)
• RECORD (verb)
Meaning:
Make a record of; set down in permanent form
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
record; enter; put down
Hypernyms (to "record" is one way to...):
preserve; save (to keep up and reserve for personal or special use)
Domain category:
recording; transcription (the act of making a record (especially an audio record))
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "record"):
clock up; log up (record a distance travelled; on planes and cars)
film; shoot; take (make a film or photograph of something)
tape; videotape (record on videotape)
photograph; shoot; snap (record on photographic film)
mark; score (make underscoring marks)
notch (notch a surface to record something)
keep; maintain (maintain by writing regular records)
film (record in film)
register (record in writing; enter into a book of names or events or transactions)
log (enter into a log, as on ships and planes)
document (record in detail)
file; file away (place in a container for keeping records)
chalk up; tally (keep score, as in games)
clock in; clock on; punch in (register one's arrival at work)
record; tape (register electronically)
accession (make a record of additions to a collection, such as a library)
post (display, as of records in sports games)
ring up (to perform and record a sale on a cash register)
manifest (record in a ship's manifest)
inscribe (write, engrave, or print as a lasting record)
chronicle (record in chronological order; make a historical record)
book (record a charge in a police register)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Meaning:
Register electronically
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
record; tape
Context example:
They recorded her singing
Hypernyms (to "record" is one way to...):
enter; put down; record (make a record of; set down in permanent form)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "record"):
cut (make a recording of)
cut (record a performance on (a medium))
prerecord (record before presentation, as of a broadcast)
tape record (record with a tape recorder)
write (record data on a computer)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Sentence example:
They will record the duet
Antonym:
erase (wipe out magnetically recorded information)
Meaning:
Indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
record; register; read; show
Context examples:
The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero / The gauge read 'empty'
Hypernyms (to "record" is one way to...):
indicate (to state or express briefly)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "record"):
say (indicate)
show (give evidence of, as of records)
strike (indicate (a certain time) by striking)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Be aware of
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Synonyms:
record; register
Context example:
Did you register any change when I pressed the button?
"Record" entails doing...:
comprehend; perceive (to become aware of through the senses)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Be or provide a memorial to a person or an event
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Synonyms:
immortalise; immortalize; memorialize; memorialise; commemorate; record
Context examples:
This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps / We memorialized the Dead
Hypernyms (to "record" is one way to...):
remind (put in the mind of someone)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "record"):
monumentalise; monumentalize (record or memorialize lastingly with a monument)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
