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recordn.1adj.

Brit. /ˈrɛkɔːd/, U.S. /ˈrɛkərd/ (in sense A. 5c also)Brit. /rᵻˈkɔːd/, U.S. /rəˈkɔrd/, /riˈkɔrd/, Scottish English /rᵻˈkɔrd/
Forms: Middle English recorder (transmission error), Middle English rekord, Middle English–1500s recorde, Middle English– record, 1900s– rekkid (nonstandard); Scottish pre-1700 racord, pre-1700 racorde, pre-1700 recorde, pre-1700 1700s– record.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French record.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French record, recorde, recort (French recors , now only in sense ‘witness accompanying a bailiff’), piece of evidence about past events, memory, account, story, discussion, negotiation, agreement, judgement (all 12th cent. in Old French or Anglo-Norman), testimony, legal record, authority of a court of record (all 13th cent. or earlier in Anglo-Norman), witness (13th cent.), official record, document (14th cent. or earlier in Anglo-Norman), opinion (1349), witness who accompanies a legal officer (15th cent. or earlier) < recorder record v.1 Compare post-classical Latin recordum, recorda record, report (from 12th cent. in British sources), Old Occitan recort, ricort, Catalan record (14th cent.), Spanish recuerdo (13th cent.), Italian ricordo (a1348).The position of the stress varied in early use. Sheridan (1780) records only stress on the second syllable, but Walker (1791) notes:1791 J. Walker Crit. Pronouncing Dict. II. 31 The noun record was anciently, as well as at present, pronounced with the accent either on the first or second syllable: till lately, however, it generally conformed to the analogy of other words of this kind; and we seldom heard the accent on the second syllable, till a great luminary of the law, as remarkable for the justness of his elocution as his legal abilities, revived the claim this word anciently had to the ultimate accent; and since his time this pronunciation, especially in our courts of justice, seems to have been the most general. We ought, however, to recollect, that this is overturning one of the most settled analogies of our language, and that it would be to the advantage of pronunciation to lean to the obvious analogy in disyllable nouns and verbs of the same form.Unambiguous representation of the vowel of the second syllable as /ə/ in United States dictionaries apparently dates from the 1890s. Examples of stress on the second syllable can still be found in verse in the 19th cent. (compare e.g. quot. a1839 at sense A. 4a). (Compare also record n.2, a recent conversion from the verb.)
A. n.1
I. Senses relating to the documentation or recording of facts, events, etc.
1. Law. The fact or condition of being, or of having been, written down as evidence of a legal matter, esp. as part of the proceedings or verdict of a court of law; evidence which is preserved in this way, and may be appealed to in case of dispute. Chiefly in phrases with prepositions, as of record, †in record, by record, on record, upon record. [With of record compare Anglo-Norman de record (15th cent. or earlier), post-classical Latin de recordo (1337, 1591 in British sources).]
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society > communication > record > written record > [noun] > fact of being or having been committed to writing
recorda1325
society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > evidence > [noun] > documentary evidence > fact of being
recorda1325
a1325 Statutes of Realm (2011) vii. 30 Þat for þilke withseggingge þoru þe record of þe schire ant of oþer curtes [etc.].
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) i. 3363 (MED) Ye seide, as it is of record, That if my fader were a lord..Ye wolden for noght elles lete, That I ne scholde be your wif.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 9711 (MED) Ne dom agh haf right na record, Ar we ben all at an a-cord.
1455 Paston Lett. I. 364 As it apperith pleynlye by accompt made of the sayd office of Constabulrye, remaynyng in the Kyngs Cheker at Westminster of record.
1473 Rolls of Parl. VI. 66/1 The Merchauntes of the said Hanze, have had and enjoyed dyvers Privileges, Liberties..within..Englond, by reason of certeyn Grauntes to theym..as by the Letters Patentes theruppon passed fro tyme to tyme it may clerely appere of record.
1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng xi. f. 20 Whan a mater..is past by verdyt..and entred in the kynges recordes, there it resteth of recorde. and also yf a dede or a patent be inrolled, there it remeyneth of recorde in lyke maner.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) ii. ii. 40 To fine the faults, whose fine stands in record, And let goe by the Actor. View more context for this quotation
1629 Vse of Law 89 in J. Doddridge Lawyers Light So that hee for-see, that hee pay Debts vpon Record, debts to the King; Then vpon Iudgements.
1630 Use of Law (new ed.) 50 in F. Bacon Elements Common Lawes These Estates are created by word, by writing, or by record.
a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) ii. x. 235 Which was accordingly done, and remains of Record in the Exchequer.
1700 J. Tyrrell Gen. Hist. Eng. II. 837 These Letters..remain upon Record in the Tower on the Clause Roll of this Year.
1709 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 12 Jan. (O.H.S.) II. 163 An Ass upon Record cried up for a man of..learning.
1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. 119 All estates-tail are rendered liable to be charged for payment of debts due to the king by record of special contract.
1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) V. 55 The manor..was let at a greater rent, or appeared upon record to be of a greater value.
1865 F. M. Nichols in tr. Britton I. 136 (note) The sheriff..is treated by our Author as the King's Justiciary, and as having the power of record incident to that office.
1870 ‘M. Twain’ in Galaxy Oct. 575/1 That verdict is of record, and holds good to this day.
1902 Amer. Law Reg. 50 239 When he exercises that right by marrying in a foreign state, there can be but one proof of mutual consent..of the marriage, and that is by record at the time, and according to the law of the place of ceremony.
1923 Virginia Law Reg. 9 672 A bank..placed the deed on record.
1980 Columbia Law Rev. 80 1014 Advocacy based on materials never placed on record at a trial.
2002 Times of India (Nexis) 12 Apr. Besides the transcripts of telephonic conversation, Ahluwalia has brought on record two meetings held with officials on March 28 and March 30.
2.
a. Attestation or testimony of a fact; witness, evidence, proof. In early use chiefly in set phrases, as by record of, to take record at. Earliest and now only in to bear record at Phrases 1a.
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > [noun]
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c1330 (?c1300) Reinbrun (Auch.) in J. Zupitza Guy of Warwick (1891) 643 (MED) To þe ich wile bere rekord, And telle y wile þe.
1385 in W. Fraser Red Bk. Grandtully (1868) I. 138 That I..assentyt to resayue this cause before wrytyn in myne ordenans, and thairof to gyf iugement be the recorde of my twnge, I made bodely fayth it ryhtwysly to dome.
c1390 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 14th Cent. (1924) 190 (MED) Þer is no mon þat is wys, Þat oþur record bi heom may say.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xv. 85 Ȝe..louten to þis lordes..Aȝeine ȝowre reule..I take recorde at [v.r. of] Ihesus.
1417 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 39 Ȝyf þer be eny man or woman þat wil say þat I howght hem eny goud, and swere vppon a boke by record of goud men, y wyl þat dey be payd.
?1465 J. Eastgate in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) III. 176 The qwych peticion I made diuerse tyme to-fore moche recorde.
1533 T. More Debellacyon Salem & Bizance ii. xvii. f. cxiiii Where one is openly and notably suspected of heresye, and suffycyent recorde and wytnes agaynst hym.
1547 T. Hancock in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) II. i. ix. 115 I awnswered that he spake those words betwyxt him and me, but yf I had record of them he would not speak them.
1646 H. Lawrence Of Communion & Warre with Angels 90 Of which I could give you account enough upon as good record as story can give us of any thing.
1689 Case of Sir Edward Hales 4 There was Legitimo Modo Convictus, as by record of his Commission may more fully appear.
b. A witness. In later use only in God is my record with biblical allusion (see quots. 1540, 1611). Now rare.
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > [noun] > a witness, testifier
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witnessc950
witnessman10..
proofc1380
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recorderc1425
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testor1570
attestator1598
attester1598
testator1602
suffragator1606
testimoner1607
testifier1611
voucher1612
suffragant1613
testate1619
sponsor1651
testee1654
vouchee1654
adducer1681
testificator1730
circumstantiator1858
1408 Will in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 215 (MED) Thys ys my wyll, Record on..Margarete Herlowe, wedewe.
?a1475 Ludus Coventriae (1922) 40 (MED) For þe best Archere myn name dede ever sprede, Record of my boy, here wytnes þis he xal.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Acts v. 32 We are his recordes as concernynge these thynges.
1540 Bible (Great) Philipp. i. 8 For God is my recorde, howe greately I longe after you all, from the very herte rote in Iesus Christe.
1568 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 291 Recordes hereof thomas Barker..and Thomas Slogen wth others.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II i. i. 30 Heauen be the record to my speech. View more context for this quotation
1611 Bible (King James) Philipp. i. 8 For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all, in the bowels of Iesus Christ. View more context for this quotation
1661 J. Guthrie Speech before Execution 7 God is my record that in these things for which sentence of death hath passed against me, I have a good Conscience.
1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey I. 33 God is my record,..that I do not speak it vauntingly.
1974 J. L. Sullivan (title) God is my record.
3. The fact or condition of being preserved as knowledge or information, esp. by being set down in writing; knowledge or information preserved or handed down in this way. In early use frequently in of record. Now esp. in on (also upon) record: recorded.For specific uses of on record, see Phrases 6. See also Phrases 2d.
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society > communication > record > [noun]
recorda1393
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. 2414 This I finde ek of record, Which the Cronique hath auctorized.
c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Summoner's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 409 Sith Elie was or Elize Han freres been, that fynde I of record.
a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) v. 1084 (MED) Thoruh his notable manli dilligence, As it is Iwrityn be good record He made thes capteyns hertili of accord.
a1500 (?a1425) tr. Secreta Secret. (Lamb.) 106 It fallys þat þou chese of wyse men & of Skreueyns..of sotyll record.
1588 H. Oldcastle & J. Mellis Briefe Instr. Accompts sig. Fvijv Yee must haue a seuerall booke of record, wherein you shall record the copy of letters of charge.
1596 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent (rev. ed.) 196 I finde of Recorde, that it [sc. the Priory at Bylsington] was first aduaunced by Iohn Maunsell.
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida i. iii. 13 Euer action that hath gone before, Whereof we haue record . View more context for this quotation
1628 G. Wither Britain's Remembrancer 7 The glorioust things, That stand upon record of mortall Kings.
1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 103 There are so many Presidents on Record in Holy Writ of this way of proceeding, that no one can be well ignorant of them.
1722 W. Sewel Hist. Quakers Let. to King Remarkable Cases, which I thought worthy to be kept upon Record, and not buried in Oblivion.
1766 G. G. Beekman Let. 10 Feb. in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) 492 It was on Record and for my part I never doubted what you told us.
1816 P. B. Shelley Alastor 3 In charnels and on coffins, where black death Keeps record of the trophies won from thee.
1884 Times 2 Dec. 10 Having beaten the highest break on record.
1922 V. Woolf Diary (1979) II. 175 This is the worst spring on record.
1930 E. M. Brent-Dyer Chalet School & Jo v. 64 It is on record that seventeen people had to go and remake theirs [sc. beds].
1992 Campaign 3 July 38/2 (advt.) We would..like to invite..exhibition designers to send samples of their work for us to keep on record and contact as needed.
2005 G. Imlach My Father & Other Working-class Football Heroes (2006) vii. 119 In with their allocation [of Cup final tickets] was a slip of paper from the FA warning that all the serial numbers were on record.
4.
a. Anything preserving information and constituting a piece of evidence about past events; esp. an account kept in writing or some other permanent form; (also) a document, monument, etc., on which such an account is inscribed. Frequently in plural: a collection of such accounts, documents, etc.
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society > communication > record > [noun] > a record
chroniclec1380
record1399
calends1470
blazon1574
calendara1616
anagraph1656
remembrancer1671
society > communication > record > [noun] > a record > set or collection of
record1399
antiquityc1487
1399 Rolls of Parl. III. 451/1 The Kyng graunted..that certeins Recordes of the Parlement..shuld be radde.
1433 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. July 1433 §24. m. 11 Plese hit you to make my said lordes, to yeve a leiser to the sight and diligent examination of certain bokes and recordes of youre eschequier.
1448 in S. A. Moore Lett. & Papers J. Shillingford (1871) 58 (MED) Hit asketh meny grete encerchis..yn oure tresory..a monge full meny..olde recordis.
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes ii. f. 315v The recordes wer serched in the tyme of whiche Consuls he was Consul.
1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. iv. 199 To communicate a copie to the Senate of the Princes recordes and papers.
1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets lv. sig. D4 The liuing record of your memory. View more context for this quotation
1611 Bible (King James) Ezra vi. 2 There was found..a rolle, and therein was a record thus written. View more context for this quotation
1655 H. Vaughan Silex Scintillans (ed. 2) ii. 64 Agreement. I Wrote it down. But one that saw And envyed that Record [etc.].
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals ix, in tr. Virgil Wks. 43 Why, Daphnis, dost thou search in old Records, To know the Seasons when the Stars arise?
1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 143. ⁋8 That no records were so durable as poems.
1759 W. Mason Caractacus 16 That black hour, (May Memory ever raze it from her records).
1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 243 Who..Could fetch from records of an earlier age,..His rich materials.
1819 P. B. Shelley Cenci iv. i. 59 My parchments and all records of my wealth.
a1839 J. Bethune Poems (1840) 193 And may the prayers by mortals pour'd For thee, sweet bud of earth! In Heaven's immutable record Attest thy second birth.
1841 Penny Cycl. XIX. 336/2 The Victoria Tower..has been named as a likely repository for the public records.
1876 Nature 30 Nov. 101/2 Thus a permanent record is made of every signal that is sent.
1881 I. Taylor Alphabet I. 16 The very earliest record which we possess of any actual event is the scene depicted on a fragment of an antler [etc.].
1927 A. Conan Doyle Case-bk. Sherlock Holmes 168 It..is crammed with papers, nearly all of which are records of cases to illustrate the curious problems which Mr. Sherlock Holmes had at various times to examine.
1967 M. Meyer Henrik Ibsen viii. 237 Of this surely interesting occasion there is, infuriatingly, no record whatever.
1989 B. A. Mason Love Life 3 She works at the courthouse, typing records—marriages, divorces, deaths, drunk-driving convictions.
2000 Cutting Edge: Encycl. Adv. Technol. 222/2 All biometric systems do their work by comparing a stored record of a biometric with a current record.
b. In extended use: a person or thing preserving the memory of a fact or event; a memorial.
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > retrospection, reminiscence > [noun] > old memories > something preserved from past
tracesc1400
record1563
relic1624
vestigea1660
1563 T. Sackville in W. Baldwin et al. Myrrour for Magistrates (new ed.) Buckingham sig. V.iv Furth streamde the teares, recordes of his vnrest.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Richard III (1623) iv. iv. 28 Breefe abstract and record of tedious dayes.
1662 Bp. E. Hopkins Funeral Serm. (1685) 13 The records of the grave.
1800 W. Wordsworth in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads II. 156 The Villagers in him Behold a record.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Gardener's Daughter in Poems (new ed.) II. 27 Shaping faithful record of the glance That graced the giving.
2004 J. Stabler in Cambr. Compan. Byron iii. xvi. 277 Bodily scars are a record of what happened and also a ghostly reminder of what might have happened.
†c. The account or reckoning of past time. Also in plural. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > time > reckoning of time > chronology > [noun] > chronological list or arrangement
chronography1548
chronology1604
record1611
chronology1614
datebook1647
timescale1828
timeline1907
1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. ⁋3 For conseruing the record of time in true supputation.
1715 A. Pope Temple of Fame 15 Who measur'd Earth..And trac'd the long Records of Lunar Years.
d. Used in the titles of newspapers and periodicals.
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1828 (title) The Record.
1862 (title) Marathon County Record.
1913 E. C. Bentley Trent's Last Case ii. 19 He was..editor-in-chief of the Record.
1926 People's Home Jrnl. Feb. 23/2 She must see that Witch Lake got the story straight... ‘To the Witch Lake Record !’ cried Miss Maginty... The Record office was on Front Street.
1992 D. Morgan Rising in West ii. vii. 130 The Delano Record reported that Helen's going away suit was of green linen, with a pink blouse. The write-up was so detailed that one reading it years later could not but wonder if the reporter had his tongue in his cheek for the benefit of the Record 's larger, non-Okie readership.
e. In plural. Usually with capital initial. The department of an institution or organization where records are kept; spec. a police records office or department. Cf. records department n. at Compounds 1a(a).
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society > communication > record > written record > arrangement and storage of written records > [noun] > department that collects or records facts or data
stats1942
records1958
1958 ‘J. Byrom’ Or be he Dead iii. 52 ‘I'll send you a copy..so that you can bring your files up to date.’.. ‘I'm sure Records will be much indebted to you.’
1965 ‘D. Shannon’ Death-bringers (1966) i. 12 The group being showed thousands of mug shots at Records, hoping for a possible ident.
2006 R. Phillips Fall from Grace xx. 204 We'll go down to Records. We'll nab the file. We'll call Quinn.
5. Law.
a. An authentic or official report of the proceedings, including the judgment, in any case coming before a court of record, entered on the rolls of court and providing indisputable evidence of the matter in question.
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society > law > administration of justice > court papers > [noun] > records of court proceedings
recordc1400
sheriff roll1534
postea1587
iter1598
bundle1678
office copy1776
c1400 Burgh Laws (Bute) c. 45 in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (at cited word) And than sal be made a recorde be for wytnes of the opposyng & answaryng.
1455 Rolls of Parl. V. 341/1 Fynes, obligacions, reconysaunces, and othir recordes upon the same.
1472 Rolls of Parl. VI. 63/1 And therupon Juggement ayenst him yeven..as in the Record therof, wherof the Copie hereto is annexed.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 856 All attaynders..were adnichilated, and the recorde of the same adiudged to be defaced.
1597 J. Skene De Verborum Significatione at Recordum Ilk lauchfull court..hes thair awin recordes in all sik actiones as are..decided before them.
1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 260 The Rolles being the Records or memorialls of the Judges of the Courts of Record..admit no auerment, plea, or proofe to the contrarie. And if such a Record be alleaged, and it be pleaded, That there is no such Record, it shall be tried only by it selfe.
1657 H. Grimston tr. G. Groke Rep. Kings-bench 410 The record..was miscertified.
1701 W. Brown Tutor Clericalis Instructus i. 65 The Records of the said Court remaining in the Treasury at Westminster.
1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. Introd. 69 The judgment itself, and all the proceedings previous thereto, are carefully registered and preserved, under the name of records, in public repositories set apart for that particular purpose.
1825 Act 6 George IV c. 86 §11 All the said Judgments and Verdicts shall be deemed to be and shall become Records of the said Sheriff to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever.
1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. 1025 It is then transferred to the record and read aloud to the jury, who are asked, ‘Is this your verdict?’
1882 Cent. Mag. Dec. 167/1 A writ of certiorari brings up the records of the proceedings in the inferior tribunal.
1942 U.S. Rep. (Supreme Court) 315 65 The record..contains a placitum in regular form which recites the convening of a regular term of the District Court.
1994 Analog Sci. Fiction & Fact Jan. 166/1 Let the record show that the witness has described uraninite, or pitchblende.
b. A copy of the material points, pleadings, and issue between defendant and plaintiff, constituting the case to be decided by the court; a case so constituted or presented. Now historical.
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society > law > administration of justice > court papers > [noun] > record
record1607
1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Aaa1a Oyer de Record, (Audire recordum) is a petition made in court, that the Iudges, for better proofes sake, will be pleased to heare or looke vpon any Record.
1627 T. Powell Attornies Almanacke (title page) Such as shall haue occasion to remoue any Person, Cause or record from an inferiour Court to any the higher Courts at Westminster.
1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. 317 The record is a history of the most material proceedings in the cause, entered on a parchment roll,..in which must be stated the original writ and summons, all the pleadings [etc.].
1817 W. Selwyn Abridgem. Law Nisi Prius (ed. 4) II. 1087 A person having a bare authority, and not being a party to the record, is not prevented from being a witness.
1824 J. Marshall Writings upon Federal Constit. (1839) 329 In cases where a state is a party on the record the question of jurisdiction is decided by inspection.
1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. II. xiii. 360 No record was ever removed thither [sc. to the Star chamber] upon assignment of errors in an inferior court.
1885 Encycl. Brit. XIX. 219/1 Since the Judicature Acts (1873) there has been no record properly so called, in civil cases, though it has not been expressly abolished.
1997 C. J. W. Allen Law of Evid. in Victorian Eng. iv. 98 A party on the record was not a competent witness and neither was the husband or wife of a party.
c. Scots Law. A document consisting of the pleadings of the parties to an action and interlocutors pronounced in it.The record is at first an open record (i.e. open for adjustment of the pleadings by the parties). After a period for adjustment it becomes a closed record and the case proceeds on that basis. The practice dates from 1825 (see quot. 1825); for details see Rules Court of Session (1994) §§22.1, 22.3.
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1825 Act 6 George IV c. 120 §10 The Record so made up and authenticated shall be held as foreclosing the parties from the statement of any new averments in point of fact.
1850 Act 13 & 14 Vict. c. 36 §2 Where Defences are lodged, and unless the Record shall be closed upon the Summons and Defences, the Record shall be made by Revisal.
1931 Encycl. Laws Scotl. XI. 560–1 Within eight days after the lodging of defences, the pursuer must print the pleadings of both parties. This print is the Open Record... After the open record is lodged, the case is put out on the Lord Ordinary's Adjustment Roll... The interchange of adjustments may go on until it is necessary to print the closed record.
1967 Scotsman 31 Aug. 5 The time for adjustment of the pleadings was during the ample period allowed for that purpose before the record was closed.
2000 Session Cases ii. 153 In the first of those actions the pursuers failed to lodge the closed record timeously and the action was dismissed.
6. Originally U.S.
a. The known history of the life or career of a person, esp. a public figure; the sum of the past activities, achievements, or performance of person, organization, etc.
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the world > action or operation > carrying out > [noun] > sum of what has been done or achieved
res gestae1587
record1856
track record1951
1856 H. Greeley Speech on Lincoln 20 Mar. 133 A candidate must have a slim record in these times.
1879 A. W. Tourgée Fool's Errand xi. 49 Contending so hotly over each other's records during and before the war.
1888 Cent. Mag. May 3 My literary record—so far as I had made a record.
1922 J. F. Rhodes McKinley & Roosevelt Administrations 292 Roosevelt..dilated on the ‘Record of the Republican party’.
1947 K. S. Walker Brief for Ballet 140 John Hart, in dancing and partnering, has some solid achievements in his record.
1989 A. Stevenson Bitter Flame ii. 29 Fully preoccupied with establishing a successful academic record, she was, she told herself, unready to fall in love.
2001 Times 27 Feb. i. 4/1 Labour has been put on the defensive over its record on law and order.
b. A police record, a criminal record. Also with modifying word: a history of being engaged in a specified kind of illicit or undesirable activity.
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society > communication > record > written record > [noun] > other types of written record
criminal record1687
police record1773
office copy1776
geological record1811
time card1837
phylactery1855
reservation1884
press cutting1888
record1897
trace1898
swindle sheet1906
form sheet1911
Dead Sea Scrolls1949
yellow card1970
society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [noun] > crime > involvement with the police > police record
police record1773
record1897
jacket1910
form sheet1911
form1958
1897 Thugs of Tenderloin (Old Cap. Collier Libr.) No. 686. 4/2 Mr. Worthington has a record.
a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) II. xvii. 397 ‘I run her in myself.’ ‘Oh, she's got a record?.. Why the hell didn't you say so?’ ‘I thought you remembered. You took her pedigree.’
1938 M. Allingham Fashion in Shrouds xx. 370 Jock has a record as long as your arm.
1954 Manch. Guardian Weekly 18 Mar. 3 McCarthy had described her as a ‘code clerk’ whose ‘Communist record’ was known to the country.
1969 Listener 28 Aug. 268/3 ‘Moderates’ (who include men with a very militant record) are at present containing the extremists and hot-heads.
1999 L. Barnes Flashpoint 178 It's all over his f–face how I've got a record and he's defending me because he's got to. He doesn't care what happens to me.
2005 W. H. Thornton New World Empire ii. 50 States with no proven terrorist record find themselves listed, while many known supporters of terrorism are showered with US aid.
7. The best performance or most remarkable event of its kind; spec. the best officially recorded achievement of a particular kind in a competitive sport. See also Phrases 8.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > outdoing or surpassing > [noun] > that which surpasses others of the same kind
record1860
best1874
high1899
1860 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Daily Sentinel 7 July If any other locomotive can beat this record we should like to have the particulars.
1883 W. Wilson Swim. Instructor 137 The following records are given.
1887 M. Shearman Athletics & Football (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) v. 143 T. G. Little and J. H. T. Roupell..tied at 5ft. 9in., a height which remained the ‘record’ for the next five years.
1928 Daily Mail 7 Aug. 15/5 [He] set up a new record for the mile (flying start) with a speed of 40 miles per hour.
1945 V. Bell Let. 10 Apr. in Sel. Lett. (1993) viii. 492 I have just had your fascinating letter written a fortnight ago. My letter you say only took 9 days, which surely must be a record.
1955 N. McWhirter & R. McWhirter (title) Guinness book of records.
1992 City Limits 2 July 87/2 He also has an oddball cabaret touch—the presenter, Steve Farnie holds the record for hypnotising chickens.
2007 T. Smith & D. Steele Silent Gesture v. 107 I was timed at 10.3 in the first 100 meters, and the world record for the 100 at that time was 10 flat, so I was on a great pace for the 200.
8.
a. Originally: a cylinder carrying a recording made by a phonograph (now historical). Later: a thin disc, latterly of plastic, carrying recorded sound, typically music, in the form of a spiral groove on each side, for reproduction by a gramophone or record player; = gramophone record n. at gramophone n. Compounds 2, phonograph record n. (b) at phonograph n. Compounds. Cf. disc n. 5.The word has occasionally been used for a tape recording (quot. 1949) and for a videodisc (quot. 1976).Discs began to supersede cylinders c1910; cylinders were last sold commercially in 1929. Since the late 1980s grooved discs have been largely superseded by compact discs and other formats, although they remain popular with collectors.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > [noun] > disc
record1878
audio disc1944
CD1979
compact disc (also disk)1979
laser disc1980
CD-ROM1983
CD-i2009
society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > a sound recording > [noun] > record or disc
phonograph record1878
record1878
disc1879
gramophone record1888
title1908
platter1926
phonodisc1929
release1932
wax1932
plate1935
waxing1936
audio disc1944
cut1949
sounds1955
twelve-inch1976
vinyl1976
society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > a sound recording > [noun] > record or disc > cylinder
record1878
cylinder1891
waxing1936
society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > production or use of video recording > [noun] > videotape or videodisc
videotape1953
videodisc1964
video1970
record1976
home video1981
1878 Design & Work 19 Jan. 72/2 The vibrations resulting when a voice..utters certain words or other sounds, instead of being caused to transmit corresponding vibrations to a distance, are caused to produce a material record... The record can also be multiplied precisely as a photographic portrait can be multiplied.
1878 Cassell's Family Mag. June 443/1 Mr. Edison is now engaged in devising a finished instrument capable of storing up speeches and music of all kinds, and of allowing the records to be sent by post.
1892 W. Gillett Phonograph i. ii. 11 Previous to taking a record the cylinder has a sheet of tinfoil carefully wrapped round it.
1897 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 104. 485/2 One graphophone talking machine... 12 Musical and Talking Records, your own selection.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 680/1 Other forms of phonographs..have been invented, in which the records are taken on a flattened disc rotating horizontally.
1906 Bazaar, Exch. & Mart (Suppl.) 3 Oct 1334/1 Over 100 10 in. and 12 in. records, chiefly operatic.
1919 H. L. Wilson Ma Pettengill i. 20 With a..hired help to bring him his breakfast in bed and put on another record and minister to his lightest whim.
1949 J. G. Frayne & H. Wolfe Elem. Sound Recording xxix. 601 The making of very high-quality magnetic records has become possible commercially.
1966 Listener 3 Nov. 646/1 Musicians' Union..objects to any new broadcast popular music programmes relying mainly on records.
1976 National Observer (U.S.) 13 Nov. 8/2 Video-disc players, which attach to your television and broadcast shows from records, are being developed by several major manufacturers.
1989 Q Dec. 183/3 Bitstream, the new piece of CD electronic trickery which promises to make CDs sound like ‘real records’.
1998 H. Strachan Way Up Way Out i. 6 He had..a great collection of ponderous but triumphal German music on shellac records which he played with a steel needle.
b. A piece or collection of music issued on record, cassette, CD, etc.
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1919 P. G. Wodehouse Damsel in Distress xxiii. 278 I've been dancing to your music for years! I've got about fifty of your records on the Victrola at home.
1954 Record Changer May 3/2 A new record that ‘proved’ that Stan Kenton had seen the mouldy light and been converted to two-beat.
1967 Melody Maker 27 May 10/6 All these hang-ups are eliminated by the truth—this is a great record.
1997 S. Barrow & P. Dalton Reggae viii. 332/2 Lovers-rock records like Janet Kay's 1979 pop hit ‘Silly Games’..stand up well twenty years on.
2004 N.Y. Times Mag. 8 Feb. 57/1 Pop opens many doors and this is one: a great record can knock any paradigm out of shape, if only for three minutes.
9. Computing. A number of related items of information which are handled as a unit; esp. a collection of data relating to one item in a file and arranged in one or more fields.
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society > computing and information technology > data > database > [noun] > unit of data
data point1910
data field1929
descriptor1954
item1954
record1957
data packet1959
field1959
struct1971
datagram1976
1957 Proc. IRE-AIEE-ACM Western Joint Computer Conf. 215/1 A record might be defined as all of the individual items of information (or words) about a given file unit.
1963 Communications ACM 6 267/1 Suppose each record of an input tape contains up to 50 fields.., some of which may be missing in any given input record.
1964 T. W. McRae Impact Computers on Accounting vi. 189 A tape reel holds a certain number of records just as a ledger holds a certain number of accounts.
1989 J. Gatenby GCSE Computer Stud. iv. 68 Inter-block gaps between sets of records or individual records allow time for the starting and stopping of the tape.
2004 SAS Component Lang. 9.1: Ref. (SAS Inst.) xi. 187 Some operating systems do not allow new records to be added to external files.
†II. Other senses (chiefly corresponding to senses of record v.1).
10. Memory, remembrance, recollection. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > memory > [noun] > act of remembering, recollection
minOE
thoughtc1175
memorya1275
minninga1325
bethinking1340
record1340
recording1340
remembrancec1350
memoriala1382
rememberinga1382
minsing?a1400
rememorancea1438
mindingc1449
remembrancingc1449
rememorationc1449
resouvenancec1450
umbethinkingc1450
sovenance1477
memoration1562
reminiscence1589
recollecting1604
rememorating1606
recollection1633
evocation1646
recall1651
recordancy1654
anamnesis1656
membrance1827
reliving1919
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 56 (MED) Efter þe lecherie þet is ine etinge comþ þe blisse þet is ine þe recorder [read recorde].
c1390 in F. J. Furnivall Minor Poems Vernon MS (1901) ii. 526 (MED) Tweyn euel þingus þerfore ben ordeynt to vs: Long record of þat malice, And horible peyne.
a1450–1500 ( Libel Eng. Policy (1926) l. 1001 (MED) Kynge Edwarde..wanne the toune..Thus made he nobles coigned of recorde.
1577 N. Breton Floorish vpon Fancie sig. Piiij When that in mynde I feede vpon the fresh recorde of thee.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) v. i. 244 O that record is liuely in my soule. View more context for this quotation
11. Reputation, repute, account. Obsolete (Scottish and archaic in later use).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > [noun]
nameeOE
talec1175
fame?c1225
lose1297
creancec1330
stevenc1374
opinionc1384
credencec1390
recorda1393
renowna1400
reputationc1400
reportc1425
regardc1440
esteema1450
noisea1470
reapport1514
estimation1530
savour1535
existimationa1538
countenancea1568
credit1576
standing1579
stair1590
perfumec1595
estimate1597
pass1601
reportage1612
vibration1666
suffrage1667
rep1677
face1834
odour1835
rap1966
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. 3082 Protheus, of his record Which was an Astronomien.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) viii. 1518 (MED) Sche was a womman of record, And al is lieved that sche seith.
c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Summoner's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 341 Dronkenesse is eek a foul record Of any man.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) x. l. 439 Off him he maid bot lycht record.
a1500 Ratis Raving (Cambr. Kk.1.5) l. 1738 in R. Girvan Ratis Raving & Other Early Scots Poems (1939) 49 Quhat is þar þan lyvand by kynd of ony man? Richt nocht bot gud recorde or evil.
1656 W. Dugdale Antiq. Warwickshire 533/2 He shall wear that Lace upon all his Garments, from that day forwards, untill he have gained some honour and renown by Arms, and is registred of as high record, as the Nobles, Knights, Esquires, and Heraulds of Arms.
1888 Battle of Harlaw in F. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1889) VI. 319/2 They rade, they ran, an some did gang, They were o sma record.
12.
a. An accord, an agreement. Obsolete.In quot. c1400: a grammatical agreement.
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c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. iv. l. 346 (MED) Relacion rect..ys a recorde of treuthe.
a1450 Rule St. Benet (Vesp.) (1902) 654 (MED) For our enmes sal we pray Til a recorde be redy ay.
a1500 (a1450) Partonope of Blois (BL Add.) (1912) l. 3809 (MED) Kynge Furfyne..tolde the trowthe off the recorde.
b. Scottish. Accord, reconciliation. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > dissent > absence of dissension or peace > bringing about concord or peace > [noun] > reconciliation
saughtnessc1000
accordc1275
saughtelinga1300
saughtlinessa1300
cordementc1320
accordmentc1330
reconcilinga1382
reconciliationa1398
cordinga1400
saughtinga1400
reparationc1450
reconcilementc1475
recounsellinga1500
atonement1513
making-upa1525
recorda1540
atone1595
atonemaking1611
reconciliage1626
redintegration1631
reintegration1656
according1709
make-up1833
Versöhnung1976
a1540 (c1460) G. Hay tr. Bk. King Alexander 9024 And vnder hope of tretise and recorde To mak all pece with Clarus King thare lord.
1594 (a1555) D. Lindsay Hist. Squyer Meldrum l. 618, in Wks. (1931) I. 162 In the court of France wes, than,..Of Ingland monie ane prudent lord, Efter the Weir makand record.
13. A statement; an account; a comment, a reply. Cf. by all record at Phrases 3. Obsolete (Scottish in later use).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > answer > [noun] > an answer, response
answerOE
response?a1400
replication1414
recorda1450
responsal?a1475
responsion?a1475
repliquec1475
responsivec1487
replyal1548
replica?1552
reply1560
avoure1596
interlocution1597
respond1600
responsum1610
returna1616
respondency1617
reasona1635
the mind > language > speech > narration > [noun] > a narrative or account
talec1200
historyc1230
sawc1320
tellinga1325
treatisec1374
chroniclec1380
process?1387
legendc1390
prosec1390
pistlec1395
treatc1400
relationc1425
rehearsal?a1439
report?a1439
narrationc1449
recorda1450
count1477
redec1480
story1489
recount1490
deductiona1532
repetition1533
narrative1539
discourse1546
account1561
recital1561
enarrative1575
legendary1577
enarration1592
recite1594
repeat1609
texture1611
recitation1614
rendera1616
prospect1625
recitement1646
tell1743
diegesis1829
récit1915
narrative line1953
a1450 ( G. Chaucer Bk. Duchess (Tanner 346) (1871) l. 934 Her simple recorde Was found as trew as any bonde.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) xi. l. 1159 To that langage Cumyn maid na record.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) vii. l. 1260 Schir Ihon Menteth..Till Wallace come and maid a playne record.
1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 729 The king fell in carping, and tauld his Intent, To mony gracious Grome he maid his record.
c1600 in Balfour's Practicks (1754) 439 As eldren men has maid record.
1723 Coll. Old Ballads 179 The Nobles and the Gentles both, That were in present Place, Rejoyced at this sweet Record.
14. = recorder n.1 1a. Obsolete. rare.
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society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > [noun] > magistrate in city or borough
recorder1415
recorda1550
recordator1691
a1550 Vox populi 702 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1866) III. 292 The laweare and the landelorde, The greate reave and the recorde, The recorde I mean is he That hath office or els ffee.
15. = recorder n.2 1. Obsolete. rare.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > woodwind instruments > [noun] > flute > recorder
recorderc1430
doucetc1450
recordc1560
English flute1732
flauto piccolo1792
c1560 (a1500) Squyr Lowe Degre (Copland) 1075 (MED) With fydle, recorde, and dowcemere.
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. i. 53 Melodious instruments, as Lutes, Harpes, Regals, Records and such like.
16. The song of a bird. Cf. record v.1 3. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [noun] > song
songeOE
lay13..
notec1330
shouting1508
record1582
charm1587
roundelay1588
ramage?1614
ornithology1655
jerk1675
birdsong1834
roll1933
1582 T. Watson Ἑκατομπαθία: Passionate Cent. Loue xi O Goulden bird..Whose sweete records and more then earthly voice..did then my griefe asswage.
1593 J. Eliot Ortho-epia Gallica 149 Tis a Nightingale I heard her record.
1636 J. Trussell Contin. Coll. Hist. Eng. 23 Like the Ravens in Arabia, that full gorged, have a tunable sweet record, but empty, scrich horribly.
B. adj. (attributive).
That is the best, biggest, etc., recorded example of a particular thing; record-breaking. Also occasionally of a person: that holds or breaks a record. Esp. in in record time. Cf. sense A. 7.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > outdoing or surpassing > [adjective] > breaking records
record-breaking1883
record1886
all-time1929
1886 Washington Post 4 Nov. 2/5 The first result was a complete surprise, when Telie Doe ran away from Gleaner and won the race in record time.
1892 Outing Mar. 454/2 Williams won the high and low hurdles in record time.
1893 R. Lydekker Horns & Hoofs 135 The ‘record’ dimensions are..a length of 131/ 2 in., with a girth..of 61/ 2 in.
1895 Times 2 Jan. 13/1 Record prices have been made.
1903 C. F. Holder Big Game Fishes facing p. 78 (caption) C.F. Holder and his record tuna, 183 pounds.
1912 G. K. Chesterton Manalive ii. i. 194 Smith was one of the University's record men for shooting.
1937 Discovery Sept. 264 His ‘dash’..was accomplished in record time.
1992 N. Ryan & J. B. Jenkins Miracle Man xi. 131 Being able to go only one inning before a record crowd.
2004 L. Barnes Deep Pockets (2005) iii. 17 If I ran Chaney's blackmailer to ground in record time and earned a fat bonus, I'd..replace my old rolltop desk.

Phrases

P1.
a. to bear record: to bear witness. [After Anglo-Norman porter record (13th cent.); compare bear v.1 9.]
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > bear witness, testify [verb (intransitive)]
to bear (one) witnesslOE
witne?c1225
to bear witnessinga1300
to bear recordc1330
testimonyc1330
testify1377
witnessc1380
recordc1400
militatec1600
suffragate1620
testate1624
depone1640
attest1672
rap1728
certify1874
certificate1907
c1330 (?c1300) Reinbrun (Auch.) in J. Zupitza Guy of Warwick (1891) 643 (MED) To þe ich wile bere rekord, And telle y wile þe.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) ii. 850 Forto bere hierof record, He sende ous hider bothe tuo.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 286 There were many knyghtes bare hym recorde.
1483 ( tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage of Soul (Caxton) (1859) i. xii. 9 Of this wyl I bere hym good record, that he has clerely kepte hys byleue in to this last ende.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) John i. f. cxx And I sawe yt, and have borne recorde, that thys ys the sonne off God.
1542 H. Brinkelow Lamentacion sig. Cviiiv All that reade their workes maye beare recorde with them agaynst your lyes.
1611 Bible (King James) John xix. 35 He that saw it, bare record, and his record is true. View more context for this quotation
1667 N. Billingsley Treasury Divine Raptures 155 Conscience goes with us where e're we go, To bear record of whatsoe're we do.
1702 B. Higgons Gorgeous Conqueror iii. i Bear record Heav'n, and all the conscious Stars, Who doom our Loves to this Disastrous Fate.
1792 S. Ireland Picturesque Views Thames I. 67 Distant columns, proudly bearing record to its noble founder's greatness.
1850 H. Boyd Death of Queen Dowager 15 And we can all bear record to the worth Of her, whom we so deeply mourn on earth.
1902 W. Canton Comrades 121 The pillar bearing record of the cure Was dug from wreck of war and drift of years.
2000 Afr. Amer. Rev. 34 481/2 Landscape..is never merely landscape but always the mirror of human history, bearing record through proliferating the seeds humans have planted.
†b. to call (also take) to record: to summon or appeal to (a person) to witness something; (also) to adduce as evidence. Cf. to call to witness at witness n. 6b. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > bear witness, testify [verb (intransitive)] > call to witness
to call or take to (one's) witness1297
to draw, take to warrantc1330
to call (also take) to recorda1393
to call to suretya1616
obtest1650
to call on ——1655
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) Prol. 122 (MED) The world is changed overal..And that I take to record Of every lond..The comune vois.
a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) (1891) l. 7311 I take youre silf to Recorde heere That men ne may..Teren the wolf out of his hide Til he be slayn.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. xiiii. f. viii Gonorilla..callynge her goddes to recorde sayd she loued hym more than her owne soule.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Acts xx. 26 I take you to recorde this same daye that I am pure from the bloud of all men.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Deut. xxx. 19 I take [1611 call] heauen and earth this daye to recorde ouer you.
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. vi. 202 I call to record that same Roman Thrall, Who..Fled through the desart.
1617 J. Minshev Ductor in linguas To take to Record... i. Deum in testem accipere.
1657 E. Burrough Many Strong Reasons Confounded 15 The Lord God, his Angels, and all his Saints and Servants I call to record against thee.
1761 M. Edwards Farewel Disc. (1762) 10 I call to record this day that I have endeavoured to rivet this sentiment in your minds, like a nail in a sure place.
P2. Chiefly Law. Noun phrases with of record as a postmodifier.
a.
court of record n. a court whose proceedings are formally recorded and valid as evidence of fact, and which has the authority to fine or imprison. Also †place of record. [After Anglo-Norman cort de record (14th cent. or earlier); compare post-classical Latin curia de recordo (1574, 1587 in British sources).]
ΘΚΠ
society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > [noun] > court of record
court of record1387
1387–8 Petition London Mercers in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 35 (MED) The same Nichol sayd bifor Mair, Aldermen, & owre craft bifor hem gadred in place of recorde, that..xxx of vs were worthy to be drawen & hanged.
1404 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1865) III. 26 (MED) Yat yay delyverens ye forsaid londes..unto here next heire of the Brewes syde en court of record.
1451 Rolls of Parl. V. 219/1 Youre Officers in youre Courtes of Record.
1540 Act 32 Hen. VIII c. 45 Which court..continually and for euer shalbe a court of record.
1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Iii3/1 Queene Elizabeth..made the Consistory Court of the Vniuersity of Cambridge a Court of record.
1641 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) f. 94v The greater part are Courts of record, some are not, and therfore accounted base Courts in comparison of the others.
1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. 24 A court of record is that where the acts and judicial proceedings are enrolled in parchment for a perpetual memorial and testimony.
1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. iii. 25 That the very erection of a new jurisdiction with power of fine and imprisonment makes it instantly a court of record.
1844 H. J. Stephen New Comm. Laws Eng. III. v. vi. 442 The Commissioners [of Sewers] are a court of record and may fine and imprison for contempts.
1865 F. M. Nichols in tr. Britton I. 136 (note) It was decided in later times, that the county court, though sitting by virtue of the King's writ.., had not the powers of a court of record.
1906 J. A. Fairlie Local Govt. in Counties, Towns, & Villages vi. 115 Most courts of record have a clerk or secretary to keep the record of its proceedings.
1999 B. S. Meyer Judicial Retirem. Laws iii. 247 The chief justice of the supreme court may call upon any judge or justice of a court of record to..hear any case for the duration of the case.
b. Designating an official of or person officially recognized by a court of record, or a legal instrument, decision, etc., recorded by such a court, as attorney of record, bond of record, judge of record, etc. See also matter of record at matter n.1 13a.
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1433 Rolls of Parl. IV. 424/1 Thay to abide enacted as yinges of recorde.
1456 in W. Brown Yorks. Deeds (1909) 25 (MED) One of the seid Justice havynge sufficiant..auctorite as a juge of record to resceyve and recorde the knowlege and graunte.
1581 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha i. xiii. 69 It maketh not a little..for the credite of the Iustices [of the Peace].., that they are numbred amongst the Iudges of Recorde.
1629 Vse of Law 63 in J. Doddridge Lawyers Light This Fine is called a Feofment of Record, because that it includeth all that the Feofment doth.
1658 E. Leigh Philol. Comm. (ed. 2) 216 It is an acknowledgment of a Bond to the King, taken by a compent Judge of Record, for the keeping of the peace.
1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words at Recognisance A Bond of Record, testifying from the Recognisour to the Recognizee, a certain summe of money.
1703 H. Curson Law conc. Estates Taile 183 This shall not extend..to Judgments acknowledged by an Attorney of Record for another Person.
1784 S. Glasse Magistrate’s Assistant 253 Recognizance is a bond of record.
1845 N.-Y. Legal Observer July 290/1 A judgment was given by judges of record and in a court of record.
1939 J. M. French Milton in Chancery vii. 100 It was therefore a bond of record, acknowledged before the mayor of a ‘staple’ town.
1975 A. W. B. Simpson Hist. Common Law of Contract i. iii. 177 The auditors assigned by the court to take the accounts were regarded as possessing the status of judges of record.
1997 Calif. Lawyer July 86/2 Maniates withdrew as the attorney of record.
c.
debt of record n. a debt due by the judgment of a court of record. Also †debt by record.
ΚΠ
1641 Office & Dutie Executors xi. 157 The auditors are made Judges by the Statute, West. 2. cap. 11. and so this Arrerage which they have judged, is a debt by Record.
1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. xxx. 464 A debt of record is a sum of money, which appears to be due by the evidence of a court of record.
1842 H. J. Stephen New Comm. Laws Eng. II. ii. ii. v. 187 Another species of debt by record is that upon adjudgment; which is, where any sum is adjudged to be due from one party to the other, in an action in a court of record.
1863 G. T. Curtis Digest Decis. Courts of Common Law & Admiralty U.S. II. 673/1 A judgment in a justice's court in New York cannot be pleaded as a debt of record.
1989 All Eng. Law Rep. 3 250 A fine is a monetary penalty and the imposition of a fine gives rise to a debt of record to the Crown.
d. Designating a periodical publication, esp. a newspaper, regarded as an authoritative and complete repository of factual information, as newspaper of record, paper of record, etc.
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1924 N.Y. Times 26 Oct. x. 5/5 The New York Times is the newspaper of record. There is no newspaper in the United States that is preserved in so many places.
1978 Times 13 Mar. 19/4 Bernard Levin's piece..is incomplete for what is still claimed to be a newspaper of record.
1995 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 15 Apr. c7/1 As the magazine of record serving the profession for the last 40 years, it has provided the vehicle for projects to be made known across the country.
2005 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Oct. 196/1 Free from U.S.-centricity (and Washington influence), The Guardian has come to rival The New York Times as a global liberal paper of record.
†P3. by all record: by all accounts. Cf. sense A. 13. Obsolete.
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1485 Malory's Morte Darthur (Caxton) i. ii. sig. aij The lady herd telle of the duke her husband and by all record he was dede or euer kynge Vther came to her.
†P4. to have record: to be entitled to have one's judicial acts and decisions enrolled. Obsolete.
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1581 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha i. xiii. 71 Bracton..writing of a speciall case, where the Shirife in his Countie hath Record.
P5. Law.
a. to travel out of the record: to consider a matter not contained in the legal record; (in extended use) to wander off the subject. Now rare.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > be copious [verb (intransitive)] > digress
overleapc1400
to cast, fet, fetch, go, take a compass?a1500
digress1530
traverse1530
decline?1543
square1567
rovea1575
deviate1638
to step aside1653
swerve1658
to sally out1660
transgress1662
to run off1687
canceleera1697
cantona1734
excurse1748
to travel out of the record1770
divagate1852
desult1872
sidetrack1893
1770 Chatham in ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) I. Pref. p. xviii The court..are so far confined to the record, that they cannot take notice of any thing that does not appear on the face of it; in the legal phrase, they cannot travel out of the record.
1772 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra I. Pref. p. xviii If I stated the merits of my letter to the King, I should imitate Lord Mansfield, and travel out of the record.
1840 W. L. Garrison in W. P. Garrison & F. J. Garrison Life W. L. Garrison (1885) II. 430 [He] will speak to a point that is pertinent, and not travel out of the record.
1874 G. J. Whyte-Melville Uncle John viii It seems that we are travelling out of the record.
1936 Columbia Law Rev. 36 933 Counsel may freely ‘travel out of the record’ by invocation of judicial notice, which permits the introduction of material facts.
b. to keep to the record: to consider only matters contained in the legal record; (in extended use) to stick to the subject.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > conciseness > be concise or brief [verb (intransitive)] > keep to the subject
to keep to the record1836
1836 Deb. on ‘Modern Abolitionism’ iii. 71 He demanded that he should be kept to the record—that he should speak directly to the charge made against him.
1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations I. xviii. 298 Never mind what you..longed for..keep to the record.
1895 Rep. & Proc. Senate Comm. to investigate Police N.Y. 834 We have kept to the record.
1936 C. Rourke Audubon xv. 304 For the most part he kept to the record.
2005 R. McLeish Radio Production (ed. 5) xx. 264 A programme dealing with a murder trial, for example, must keep to the record.
P6.
a. Originally U.S. to put on (also upon) record: to have (one's comments, views, opinions, etc.) recorded officially or for posterity; (reflexive) = to go on record at Phrases 6b.
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the mind > language > statement > state or declare [verb (transitive)] > authoritatively or as an opinion
pronouncec1384
determine1393
judgec1400
dictate1624
to put on (also upon) record1782
the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > hold an opinion [verb (transitive)] > express an opinion
opinea1475
to set forward1560
opinionate1651
vend1657
spend1688
to put on (also upon) record1782
voice1850
1782 in App. to India Courier Extraordinary (1786) I. 47 My present objection to his appointment I dare not put upon record.
1802 Port Folio 25 Sept. 302/3 The general intention of this department is to point out to the reader, and to put on record, the existence of the several works that relate more particularly to the events of the present time.
1837 J. S. Mill Let. 20 Nov. in Wks. (1963) XII. 359 An opportunity which I might..have used for putting upon record my sense of your great merits.
1853 Min. Gen. Assoc. Michigan 45 Has it uttered itself distinctly before the world, and put itself on record as condemnatory in sentiment and hostile in aims to American slavery?
1900 Congress. Rec. 11 Jan. 785/1 I would be perfectly contented if Senators would put their vote on record.
1905 Springfield (Mass.) Weekly Republican 20 Oct. 1 The American association of bankers last week put itself on record as favoring government subsidies.
1967 N.Y. Times (Internat. ed.) 11 Feb. 1/1 West German Vice Chancellor Willy Brandt put the Bonn Government on record today as being willing to bar any nuclear explosions.
1983 K. Margerison P.-L. Roederer iii. 39 The Directory..put itself on record as an opponent of the régie.
2003 Gay Times Feb. 9/2 I would like to put on record my delight to see that..Britain's Sexiest Man..was..an out gay man.
b. Originally U.S. to go on record: to state one's opinion openly or officially, esp. so that it is formally recorded (frequently with as introducing the stated opinion).
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the mind > language > statement > state or declare [verb (intransitive)] > one's opinion or position
opena1382
to show one's mind1492
to speak one's mindc1500
to speak (also give) one's sense1646
position1647
to declare for1669
explain1709
to come out1836
to go on record1867
the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > hold an opinion, opine [verb (intransitive)] > express an opinion
suppose1387
opinec1450
to go on record1867
1867 Cleveland (Ohio) Herald 25 Mar. 1/3 In the Senate only seven went on record against it.
1871 Nat. Q. Rev. June 159 The Mayor is not willing to go on record without a protest in behalf of posterity against the want of foresight and generosity which so many of the tax-payers of to-day display.
1911 M. Parton & C. Manning in C. E. Persons et al. Labor Laws 53 The House went on record as favorable to the resolution. The State nonconcurred.
1930 Daily Express 8 Sept. 10/4 President Parsons of Woolworths has also gone on record with the statement that [etc.].
1975 J. Grady Shadow of Condor vii. 116 I've hardly heard anything of what's being done..and I would like to go on record right now to that effect.
1994 Nature 24 Mar. 291/2 Several authors went on record as predicting that only a single allele would be found to account for the Ashkenazim's high frequency of Tay–Sachs or Gaucher disease.
2003 K. Kwei-Armah Elmina's Kitchen i. i. 18 The brothers go on record saying they murdered their parents ‘for the hell of it’.
c. to be on record: to have stated one's opinion officially or openly (frequently with as introducing the stated opinion).
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1879 A. S. Bolles Industr. Hist. U.S. ii. vi. 433 Mr. Duponceau is on record as having expressed the very decided opinion, that we Americans should keep on trying to make silk-growing a success before trying to manufacture.
1886 Puck (N.Y.) 24 Mar. 51/2 Between you and me and the readers of Puck, the President has the right of it—in fact, I am on record as sustaining his position.
1940 Publishers' Weekly 1 May 3007/1 The Association has previously been on record against legislation of this kind.
1983 Listener 6 Jan. 28/1 Le Carré is on record as saying that it is unfilmable.
2001 N.Y. Times 8 Jan. a1/1 Mr. Bush is on record as promoting an earlier version of the DD-21 known as the arsenal ship.
d. on the record: officially, openly. to go on the record: to record or be recorded officially. Also (usually hyphenated) as adj. Cf. off the record at Phrases 10.
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1920 Boston Sunday Globe 4 July 13/3 Right here let it go on the record that Senator Joe Robinson of Arkansas is as good a chairman as any convention ever had.
1937 Tempo Sept. 1/1 Members of the Local's board of directors will hereafter go ‘on the record’ as to how they vote on the matters coming before the board.
1942 Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. 28 633 The news conference, on the record or off it, affects the news story at its source.
1964 Time 19 June 97 People have told us, on the record, that they'd rather get Canadian Club than any other whisky.
1973 Times 17 Dec. 14/4 An unattributable criticism of the oil companies by one minister was followed next day by an on-the-record reversal.
1997 N.Y. Times 16 Nov. iv. 15/1 Kennedy loyalists are still in denial, but the stack of on-the-record interviews will be hard to refute.
2004 Daily Tel. 24 June 17/5 The trauma of the post Hutton environment could still be felt yesterday in the reluctance of BBC staff to talk on the record.
P7. to put (also set, etc.) the record straight: to put forward a correct account of the facts; to correct a misapprehension.
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the world > action or operation > amending > provide a remedy [verb (intransitive)] > put right information or opinion
to put (also set, etc.) the record straight1855
society > communication > record > [verb (transitive)] > correct a misapprehension
to put (also set, etc.) the record straight1855
1855 App. to Congress. Globe 23 Feb. 244/3 I think, Mr. President, I have a right to set the record straight upon that point.
1863 Executive Documents House of Representatives No. 71. 160 I also mentioned that I desired to put the record straight, with regard to the difficulty between General Pope and myself.
a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) II. xxi. 494 ‘I want to stay. I'm happy.’ ‘Then—let's put the record straight.’
1949 Manch. Guardian Weekly 31 Mar. 2/3 Professor Schuman, who is a tidy-minded man, wanted to keep the record straight.
1967 N. Freeling Strike Out 30 I said we'd get the gendarmerie to look at things, just to get the record straight, what?
1976 J. Snow Cricket Rebel 76 I was impressed by the fact that he had bothered to get in touch with me to put the record straight.
1997 ‘Q’ Deadmeat 369 I'd decided to turn myself in. I was going to come clean about Melanie's car, the blood in the boot. I just wanted to set the record straight.
P8. to break (also beat) the record: to surpass the previous best performance in a particular activity; also (hyperbolical) indicating that the activity is done a lot, or to an excessive extent. Also to break (all) records, etc. Cf. record-breaking n. and adj. at Compounds 1b.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > outdoing or surpassing > outdo or surpass [verb (transitive)] > surpass what has been done or exists > set a record > beat a record
to break (also beat) the record1880
break1909
crack1953
1880 Dubuque (Iowa) Daily Times 11 Apr. Hart is now certain to beat the record of ‘Blower’ Brown.
1884 Evening Gaz. (Cesar Rapids, Iowa) 21 Jan. He broke the record for a ‘standing high kick’.
1898 R. M. Stuart Moriah's Mourning 67 The two men..had broken the record for generosity.
1901 Speaker 26 Jan. 469/1 Sportsmen may be divided into two classes—those who care more for the chase than the killing and those who merely make ‘bags’ and break records.
1902 C. Lane in H. H. Ayer Harriet Hubbard Ayer's Bk. App. 475 The girl who has broken the record for consuming pie.
1922 Daily Mail 13 Nov. 7 Cabaret, as exemplified by the Midnight Follies at the Hotel Metropole, also broke all records.
1923 W. J. Locke Moordius & Co. xxi. 289 He could tell all chauffeuring Grasse how he had beaten the record to Paris.
1977 J. Rechy Sexual Outlaw 37 Exhibitionistically breaking records before the involuntarily captive audience.
1993 Cricket World 3 Apr. 20 (caption) Allan Border sweeps for 4 and breaks the record for the number of runs scored in Test Cricket.
2002 L. Baldovi Foxhole View iii. 204 I must have broken the record for saying the ‘Hail Mary’.
P9. change the record, put another (also a new) record on: [with allusion to sense A. 8a] (in imperative) change the topic of conversation; change the subject under discussion (with the implication that the current topic has been exhaustively dealt with and should be closed). Also to be sick of that record: to have had enough of a particular topic of conversation or discussion.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > topic, subject-matter > be occupied with a topic [verb (intransitive)] > change the subject
put another (also a new) record on1926
1926 G. H. Maines & B. Grant Wise-crack Dict. 12/2 Put on a new record, change the subject.
1957 J. Osborne Look Back in Anger iii. i. 79 Helen. Jimmy, can we have one day, just one day, without tumbling over religion and politics? Cliff. Yes, change the record, old boy.
1976 W. Goldman Magic iii. xii. 207 ‘There's something crazy here..and I care.’ ‘Oh Jesus, I'm sick of that record.’
1977 E. Partridge Dict. Catch Phr. 177/2 Put another record on! and change the record!.. Addressed to..anyone..‘going on about something’.
2007 Now 21 May 67 I love Now magazine, but I'm a bit fed up with reading features about fat celebs vs skinny ones. Change the record, please.
P10. Originally U.S. Law. off the record: not on the record; done, held, etc., unofficially or confidentially. Also (usually hyphenated) as adj. Cf. on the record at Phrases 6d.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > [adverb] > in confidence
under the rose1546
under (the) thumb1577
sub sigillo1623
sub rosa1654
between you and me and the bed-post1830
between (or betwixt) you (and) me and the gatepost1871
under one's hat1885
between you and me and the lamp-post1919
off the record1920
cagily1926
1917 N.Y. Suppl. 165 739 His best recollection was that no such conversation was had ‘off record’.]
1920 North Western Rep. 178 1023 We might express an opinion that counsel's assumption of fact is unwarranted, but this would likewise be ‘off the record’.
1935 Time 2 Sept. 16/2 Only a very few Canadian tycoons took a calmer off-the-record view.
1949 R. Chandler Little Sister xxxi. 226 Off the record—we were always sure. We just didn't have a thing on him.
1978 R. V. Jones Most Secret War iv. 41 Our discussion, which he had assured me was ‘off the record’, was reported back to the Air Ministry.
1986 E. E. Scharff Worldly Power xiii. 234 Williams had gone to Detroit with instructions..not to attend any off-the-record briefings.
2005 J. Weiner Goodnight Nobody xxxiii. 279 I very charmingly..said he could either speak to me in private, off the record, or I'd give them the go-sign.
P11. for the record: for the sake of having the facts recorded or known.
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society > communication > record > [phrase]
for the record1937
the mind > language > statement > [phrase] > for the sake of having the facts known
for the record1937
1934 G. Ross Tips on Tables 184 The names of the Armenian specialties have already appeared in our description of the Bosporus, but for the record's sake, they are banjeban gavej, shish kebab, [etc.].]
1937 N.Y. Herald Tribune 21 Aug. 12/2 He had mixed his 500,000th cocktail... For the record, it was a Bacardi mint cooler called a Mojito, the place was Sloppy Joe's, in Havana, and the consumer was a Harvard man in a Porcelian hatband.
1947 Life 17 Nov. 141/1 The O'Byrne board, for the record, sagged under a load of tea, punch, coffee, sandwiches..and compotes made of confectioner's sugar and initialed ‘D.A.R’ in green.
1953 A. C. Clarke Prelude to Space (rev. ed.) viii. 43 I thought you might like to come along For the record, you can be one of our legal advisers.
2006 R. Nerz Eat this Bk. xxii. 266 For the record, peregrine falcon dootie looks like amoeba.

Compounds

C1.
a. General attributive.
(a) (In senses A. 5, A. 4.)
record book n.
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1666 in Arch. Maryland (1884) II. 137 No Cl[er]k of any County Court..shall exact any other ffee than is here prescribed..for the entring any matter vpon Record not exceeding halfe a leafe in the Record books.
1717 tr. Artific. Gardiner iv. 16 That the said Sum of Twenty Five Gilders be paid down, and that such Person do enter his Name, and Place of paying the said Sum, into my Record Book.
1829 Times 30 June 9/5 (advt.) This day is published..The Anthology; an Annual Record Book for Youth.
1955 K. Hutton & A. Swallow Chem. for Gen. Sci. i. 1 Write in your record-book your observations of the following properties.
1993 Cycling Weekly 16 Jan. 4/2 He expected production models to be ready by July, one year after Boardman rode the machine into the record books.
record card n.
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1875 Decatur (Illinois) Daily Republican 2 Dec. The New York companies have discovered that the manufacture of ‘dummy’ punches which sound a bell but cut no hole in the conductor's fare record card, is an established business in that city.]
1890 Jrnl. Franklin Inst. 129 301 These punched record cards can easily be read and verified.
1960 M. Spark Bachelors i. 6 The specialist himself would possibly remember only the gist, and then only with the aid of his record cards.
1998 Today's Golfer May 186/2 A Foundation support pack containing an instructor's manual and record cards to chart individual progress.
record room n.
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1715–20 N. Dubois tr. A. Palladio Archit. II. iv. 10 The breadth of the record room is but two fifths of that of the Atrium, which is square.
1812 Sporting Mag. 39 152 Convicted by the magistrates at the record-room, Northampton.
1999 Akron (Ohio) Beacon Jrnl. (Nexis) 23 Aug. a1 His complaint was on file and available for inspection by the public and media in the Akron Police Department's record room.
records department n. (also record department)
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society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > police records > place where kept
records department1825
society > communication > record > written record > arrangement and storage of written records > [noun] > place where official records are kept
registery1483
chancery1523
registry1531
cartuary1539
Register House1540
cartulary?1541
arches1626
register office1641
archive1645
record office1647
tabulary1656
registry office1720
registrature1762
dufter1791
records department1825
PRO1892
morgue1914
1825 J. Miller Inq. Civil Law of Eng. iii. 390 Some of the most experienced officers belonging to the Record Department in the Tower.
1853 Daily News 4 May 5/5 He has already stated that he was ready to take the responsibility of the documents not appearing in the records department.
1937 M. Allingham Dancers in Mourning xxvi. 314 Yeo had become a new man since the message from the [Police] Records Department.
1990 P. van Dijk & G. J. H. Hoof Theory & Pract. European Convent. on Human Rights (1998) i. 30 They are employed by the Council of Europe on a full-time basis and are assisted by a record department and an administrative staff.
2004 G. N. Powell Managing Diverse Workforce x. 48 A large hospital is looking for a manager to oversee its records department.
(b) (In sense A. 8.)
record cabinet n.
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1902 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 5 May 6/4 (advt.) Edison phonograph, nearly new, with 90 records and fine record cabinet.
1967 H. Pinter Basement 70 Law goes to the record cabinet. He examines record after record.
1996 Telegraph & Gaz. (Mass.) (Nexis) 5 Dec. b1 I debated on whether to sell the record cabinet, but it had a dent on the side and we had so much furniture, so I figured I might as well.
record case n.
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1901 Daily Rev. (Decatur, Illinois) 9 Dec. 6/2 (advt.) Phonograph, a good one, 21 records, large horn, record case; a big bargain, $9.50.
1949 D. Smith I capture Castle (U.K. ed.) xiii. 245 A wireless and a gramophone combined..[and] a record case to match.
1995 N. Blincoe Acid Casuals iv. 23 He would offer to roll their spliffs or carry their record cases.
record company n.
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1894 N.Y. Times 9 Sept. 12/5 Newly Incorporated..New-York Musical Record Company, to manufacture musical plates.]
1914 Chicago Defender 7 Mar. 6/2 The New Victor Record Company has engaged Mr. Europe and his orchestra to make dance records.
1919 Phono-bretto Foreword p. iii Record companies..gave us access to their recording laboratories, stock of records, etc.
2005 Fairlady (Cape Town) Feb. 12/1 There seems to be no really mainstream counterpoint to the retro pabulum that is being spewed out by record companies.
record groove n.
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1892 Eng. Mech. 4 Nov. 255/2 As regards the record discs themselves, which are of vulcanite, the record groove covers a ring about 1 1/4 in. wide from the outer edge.
1946 E. Hodgins Mr. Blandings builds his Dream House i. 9 He lowered the rusty tone arm, complete with needle, on to the record groove.
1991 What Hi-Fi? Oct. 215/1 Tracking, the ability of the record player's stylus tip to accurately follow the wiggles in the record groove.
record library n.
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1914 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 9 Sept. 16/ 7 It [sc. the Parcel Post] affords particularly in the newly developed field of the phonograph and the record library the highest form of entertainment and instruction enjoyed in art and educational centers and this in the farmer's own home.
1974 E. Ambler Dr. Frigo i. 50 On shelving built along the inner wall was..hi-fi equipment and a record library.
1990 Guardian 28 May 23 (advt.) You'll be setting up and looking after the record library, its computerised database, and the studio playlist system.
record needle n.
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1901 H. G. Wells First Men in Moon xxiv, in Strand Mag. July 29/2 This intermittent trickle of messages, this whispering of a record needle in the darkness of the mountain slopes, is the first warning.
1972 G. Lucas et al. Amer. Graffiti (film script) 38 (stage direct.) A record needle scratches and ‘Smoke Gets in Your Eyes’ blares out as Steve and Laurie dance alone.
1992 Guitarist (BNC) It's a favourite noise, like the hiss of a record needle on the vinyl before the song starts.
record rack n.
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1911 Indianapolis Star 27 July (advt.) Edison phonograph, 263 records, wire record rack, all new.
1973 A. Roy Sable Night ii. 22 The bookcase and record-rack yielded nothing.
2003 X-Ray May 59/1 The pulverising gothabilly boogie of their debut single ‘Morning has broken’ hit the record racks last year.
record shop n.
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1915 Trenton (New Jersey) Evening Times 22 Feb. 8/3 (advt.) Talking machines and records bought, sold, exchanged... Record Shop, 236 N Warren St.
1946 K. Amis Lett. (2000) 93 If you want a hideous experience, go to a record shop and play Hamp's ‘Hey-ba-ba-re-bop’ on Brunswick.
2005 Z. Smith On Beauty 22 It's not a record shop—I keep telling you—it's a mega-store.
record storage n.
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1924 Sunday Times-Signal (Zanesville, Ohio) 14 Dec. The portion of the cabinet that is usually given over to record storage is utilized as a sound chamber.
1935 Archit. Rev. Oct. 160/3 A corner fitting, veneered with avodire, consisting of a radio-gramophone and copious record storage.
2006 Courier Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 21 June t9 There is a good market for this product [sc. a turntable]..as a way of unlocking the pleasures that still lurk in our record-storage cabinets.
record store n.
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1918 Washington Post 15 Dec. 6/6 (advt.) The Greatest Record Store in Washington. Try us. Learn French, Spanish and Italian at Home by the Cortini or Language Phone Method—we have both outfits.
1949 Billboard 2 Apr. 34 Albums listed are those classical and semi-classical albums selling best in the nation's retail record stores.
2006 ‘A. Ant’ Stand & Deliver xi. 297 I used a fantastic pick-up guitarist..to play a number of acoustic shows at radio stations and record stores across the States.
b. Objective.
record bearer n.
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1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. 2 John f. lvv Thys is the true doctrine, whiche you haue receaued of true recorde bearours [L. veracibus testibus] from the begynnyng.
1581 J. Marbeck Bk. Notes & Common Places 216 Those faithfull christen men, that heard and sawe Christ, and were his record bearers.
1959 Amer. Neptune Jan. 35 Possibly..because she was owned by a firm with whom his connections were purely business with no personal touch recorded, this record bearer of his design had not the place in his heart held by his next and largest ship.
† record bearing n. Obsolete
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1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. 2 Thess. i. f. ixv You, which trusted in Christ at our recorde bearing [L. nobis testimonium perhibentibus].
1569 A. Golding tr. N. Hemmingsen Postill (new ed.) f. 133v The strengthning of his weak fayth by the promise of Christ, and the witnesse of the women, by the vision of the Angels, and the recorde bearing of certein of the Apostles.
record-breaker n.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > outdoing or surpassing > [noun] > that which surpasses others of the same kind > breaking records > one who or that which
record-breaker1884
1884 Outing & Wheelman Mar. 457/2 The Manchester Club gave a complimentary supper and a silver medal to their ‘record-breaker’, Mr. Pearsons.
1909 Waterloo (Iowa) Daily Reporter 27 Apr. 2/5 (headline) ‘Red Mill’ [sc. a musical comedy] a record-breaker.
1929 A. Huxley Do what you Will 145 Modern record-breakers have been ready to undergo..hardships for the sake of money.
1973 New Yorker 16 July 52 If Hank should waft the record-breaker during a home game the deed will be witnessed by more mediapersons than Atlantans.
2003 Daily Post (Liverpool) (Nexis) 11 Apr. (Sport section) 40 Bennett's prolific goalscoring feats pale into insignificance when compared to all-time record-breaker Tommy Bamford.
record-breaking n. and adj.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > outdoing or surpassing > [adjective] > breaking records
record-breaking1883
record1886
all-time1929
the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > outdoing or surpassing > [noun] > that which surpasses others of the same kind > breaking records
record-breaking1883
1883 Iowa State Reporter 2 Aug. The first that was done in the way of record-breaking by a double team was on May 10, 1883.
1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 10 July 6/1 This Henley Regatta has been a record-breaking one.
1929 A. Huxley Do what you Will 147 The record-breaking was to have a numerous audience.
1937 C. Isherwood Sally Bowles 66 Huge contracts for Sally, record-breaking sales for the novels I should one day write.
1997 Football Europe Aug. 17/3 Stan Collymore's record-breaking move from Liverpool to Aston Villa was done and dusted.
record-buying n. and adj.
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1903 Trenton (New Jersey) Times 30 June 3/6 Keep up to date in your record buying.
1926 Phonograph Monthly Rev. Oct. 1 It differs from previous phonograph publications by being devoted to the best interests, not of the industry alone, but also of the great music-loving and record-buying public.
1999 D. Haslam Manchester, Eng. 257 The first signs that black music could appeal to a white record-buying public came when the British took to black American music in a way which the segregated American market never had.
2007 Birmingham Post (Nexis) 14 June (Features section) 16 He..has the commercial acumen and eye for the next big thing. It's an instinctive skill born out of years of gig-going and record-buying.
record-collecting n. and adj.
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1944 Musical Times Apr. 127 (advt.) Pianist (average) wishes to meet instrumentalist (preferably violinist or cellist) for practice, also anyone interested in record collecting.
1955 Times 14 Dec. 5/3 Miss Marianne Schech..is familiar to record collecting Wagnerites.
1992 Gramophone Jan. 42/1 One of the major joys of record-collecting is the reclamation of a work that has either been written off or neglected.
2001 Heat 17 Nov. 83/1 The acerbic Enid starts hanging out with the middle-aged record-collecting geek Seymour.
record collector n.
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1932 New Yorker 14 May 57/1 Mme. Ljungberg, hitherto accessible to record-collectors principally in opera albums, introduces herself as a singer of Strauss.
1946 Penguin Music Mag. Dec. 91 The record collector, who has built up his library.., really gets to know the music to which he listens.
1996 Wired May 78/2 This Valhalla for the weary record collector carries hot jazz, zydeco, Cajun, and more.
record holder n.
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1883 London Bicycle Club Gaz. 29 Mar. 36/1 University and county members,..record-holders and potterers, active and lazy, met to take advantage of the free and easy character of the proceedings.
1934 Discovery Dec. 352/1 The record holders of the fastest time between England and Australia.
1997 Science 25 July 483/1 If their conclusions are accurate, this Lomatia tasmanica..would be more than three times as old as the previous record holder.
record-keeper n.
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society > communication > record > written record > compiler or keeper of written records > [noun]
breverc1475
recorder?1530
noter1589
record-keeper1627
booker1669
notator1830
calendarer1864
1627 W. Guild Popish Glorying in Antiq. xiii. 232 Hee layeth an imputation of after-falsification on all the Registers, and Record keepers of this famous Councell.
1715 B. Willis Notitia Parl. I. Pref. 3 Deputy Record Keeper of the Tower.
1868 E. Edwards Life Sir W. Ralegh I. Introd. p. xlv After..months of struggle with the vested privileges of record-keepers.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 451/1 He..was employed in such various posts as school-teacher, record-keeper in Tanjore, and in 1856 deputy-inspector of schools.
1994 Denver Post 6 Feb. h11/1 Transfer agents are the record-keepers of the mutual-fund industry.
record-keeping n.
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1822 T. Munro Let. 26 Nov. in G. R. Gleig Life Sir T. Munro (1830) III. viii. 413 The custom has in some instances been abused by Company grants on writing and record keeping.
1899 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Morning Jrnl.-Gaz. 3 Dec. 16/3 The different administration of the law for the relief of the poor, the different care in investigation and record-keeping and the general business management of this important part of the work of the trustee's office.
1965 D. E. C. Eversley in D. V. Glass & D. E. C. Eversley Population in Hist. i. 34 Where central legislation..enforces record-keeping, the change tends to be abrupt.
2004 H. Kennedy Just Law (2005) iii. 72 There are greater requirements for record-keeping and procedures in police stations are more complex.
record-maker n.
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1686 F. Philipps Investigatio Jurium Antiquorum xiii. 177 Divers Learned good Authors, Summæ & incorruptæ fidei, no diminishing or additional Record-makers, have assured and given Posterity.
1794 J. Charnock Biographia Navalis I. 413 Burnet, the record-maker of the party, has particularly distinguished himself.
1884 Longman's Mag. Feb. 480 Some severe strictures on the ‘record-makers’ [in cycling].
1947 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 11 Oct. 53/1 The growing group of record makers who..turn..to the reservoir of fine performing talent that..lie outside the galaxy of first-rank star names.
2003 National Post (Canada) 11 Apr. al1/3 But for the most part the weekend offered only tentative collisions between lawmakers and record makers. Most were cringe-inducing.
record-making n.
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1884 Longman's Mag. Feb. 480 Whilst I am writing in familiar style of ‘records’ and ‘record-making’.
1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 5 Jan. Sup. 8/3 There are very few mass production industries that work to such a degree of accuracy and precision as record-making demands.
1996 Q Jan. 52/3 Songstress Buffy Sainte Marie resolutely remains in Hawaii home for every stage of the record-making process.
record promoter n.
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1951 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 10 July 2/3 The town is aswarm with RCA-Victor record promoters, plugging Dennis' new ballad.
2005 T. Bramwell & R. Kingsland Magical Myst. Tour 32 A strange preview of my future job, assessing songs as a record promoter.
record-setting adj.
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1914 Fort Wayne (Indiana) News 2 June 7/2 The Sixth ward engine house firemen are arranging a record setting celebration of the Fourth of July.
1969 Jane's Freight Containers 1968–9 112/2 Time required to unload a trailer has been reduced from 10 minutes to a record-setting 90 seconds.
1996 Washington Post 21 Nov. e1/4 Lowery, now with the New York Jets, had kicked a record-setting field goal in a 21–17 loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars on Oct. 13.
record-smasher n.
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1886 Daily Era (Bradford, Pa.) 29 Aug. (advt.) The climax engine. A record smasher!
1928 Daily Sketch 7 Aug. 22/3 Arne Borg, the record-smasher at all distances in the swimming world, was at work again yesterday.
2000 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 1 May 27 It was then left to recent record-smasher Rogers, a born-again Christian, to convert from the sideline.
record-smashing adj.
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1889 Puck (N.Y.) 7 Aug. 399/2 We will soon have as many record-smashing ocean-steamers as we now have champion pugilists.
2000 Boston Globe (Nexis) 19 Oct. e12 Paul Murphy stormed to a record-smashing victory in the Norfolk County Classic Two-Ball Championship.
c. Parasynthetic. Cf. sense B.
record-priced adj.
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1923 I. M. Bruce Hist. Aberdeenshire Shorthorn 454 Rosetta 8th—the fine cow of the Rosebud family bought from Captain CH Jolliffe in 1914—when mated with Mesmerist, produced the record-priced heifer calf.
1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 16 Feb. 83/1 27,000 gn record-priced bull.
2005 J. Livingstone-Learmonth Wines of Northern Rhône 559/1 Prices..were very steady, with a range of 65 francs up to the one-off of 200 francs in the record-priced vintage of 1825.
record-sized adj.
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1908 Boston Sunday Globe 15 Mar. 2/1 Record-sized pension bill... The largest sum ever included in a pension appropriation measure.
1998 S. G. Philander Is Temperature Rising? v. 86 A record-sized hailstone with a weight of nearly 11 pounds fell in the Guangxi region of China.
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record album n. (a) a holder for gramophone records (now rare); = album n.2 3a; (b) = album n.2 3c.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > a sound recording > [noun] > record or disc > type of record
pre-release1871
record album1904
re-release1907
ten-inch1908
twelve-incher1909
demonstration record1911
pressing1912
swinger1924
repressing1927
transcription1931
long-player1932
rush release1935
pop record1937
album1945
demonstration disc1947
pop disc1947
pop single1947
long-play1948
picture disc1948
781949
single1949
forty-five1950
demo disc1952
EP1952
shellac1954
top of the pops1956
gold disc1957
acetate1962
platinum disc1964
chartbuster1965
miss1965
cover1966
reissue1966
pirate label1968
rock record1968
thirty-three (and a third)1968
sampler1969
white-label1970
double album1971
dubplate1976
seven-inch1977
mini-album1980
joint1991
1904 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 13 May 7/4 (advt.) Arrived per R.M.S. Tagus the first shipment of gramophones, gramophone records, gramophone needles, record albums.
1925–6 T. Eaton & Co. Catal. Fall–Winter 391/1 These Record Albums are made with strong cardboard covers... Each album will hold 12 records.
1938 Washington Post 3 Apr. vi. 4/6 A newly issued record album of 14 songs by Modeste Moussorgsky will get some special attention.
1955 O. Keepnews & W. Grauer Pict. Hist. Jazz viii. 87/2 When people got around to..dissecting it [sc. a variety of jazz] in books and record-album notes,..it became known as ‘Chicago style’.
2004 S. Heller Design Literacy 413 Cato developed or directed the creation of some of the most memorable record-album covers of the 1960s.
record bag n. (a) a protective sleeve for a record; (b) a large flat bag, originally designed to contain records, but now also used more generally.
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1987 Toronto Star 13 Jan. (North section) 5/1 Now they give you those record bags, made out of that tough, jet-aged plastic wrap that always gets jammed up at the bottom of the record jacket.
1991 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 27 Mar. f1/2 (caption) This is a 10-inch, 78 r.p.m. record bag from the mid-1930s.
1992 Face (BNC) Sept. 28 Loveable scally Mike has graduated from his Farm T-shirts to wearing one of our limited-edition Save Face tops and slinging our record bag over his shoulder.
2001 Contact May 57/1 Its footprint of 26x341x241 mm and 2.4Kg means the G4 fits very easily into almost any rucksack, record bag or briefcase, leaving considerable room to spare.
record bottle n. chiefly U.S. a strong bottle containing basic writing materials, left in a remote place, such as a mountain top, to allow visitors to record their having been there.
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1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xxv. 203 Planting a flagstaff, with..a record-bottle below it.
1885 Cent. Mag. May 81/2 A few papers containing tea, a canvas cover that had probably been on the record bottle, some pieces of the gunwale of a boat with fire-charred ends gave evidence of previous visitors to the spot.
2006 C. Johnson This Grand & Magnificent Place viii. 160 At the summits of challenging mountains, they placed record bottles.
record changer n. a device on a record player which automatically replaces a record which has finished playing with another record.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > sound recording or reproducing equipment > [noun] > record-playing equipment > device for automatically placing record
record changer1921
society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > sound recording or reproducing equipment > [noun] > record-playing equipment > auto-changer
record changer1921
autochanger1934
auto-change1941
changer1952
1921 Furnit. Rec. (Grand Rapids, Michigan) Apr. 247/1 With this phonograph in the home, the owner can fill the automatic record-changer with his favorite numbers and sit in comfort until all have been played.
1928 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 19 Jan. 7/7 The test will be given on the very latest Victor product, the new style Electrola-Radiola, that features the automatic record changer. This machine plays selections for an hour without any attention given it.
1947 Gramophone Nov. 88/1 The amplifier and record changer are contained in a small chair-side consol.
2006 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 4 Jan. r1 Baby boomers..saw their parents' hi-fi sets evolve into sophisticated stereo systems, complete with record changers and eight-track tape players.
record-changing adj. designating a device which automatically replaces a record which has finished playing with another record, or a record player equipped with such a device.
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1927 N.Y. Times 19 Dec. 24/4 The automatic record-changing Electrola-Radiola.
1943 Gramophone Dec. 107/1 The spindle and turntable move left and down, which leaves the area free for the first record to drop upon the ‘floor’ of the record-changing unit.
1997 Times (Nexis) 18 Sept. By 1931..radiograms with automatic record-changing gear were appearing.
record club n. (originally) a club in which the subscriptions are used to buy or borrow records for the common use of the members; (later) a society which sells its members selected records, typically at reduced prices; cf. book club n. 1.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > a sound recording > [noun] > record club
record club1916
1913 Hospers (Iowa) Tribune 23 May S. Terpstra has organized a phonograph record club, which appears to be a very good thing for phonograph owners. The club has nine members, each of whom paid a trifle over eight dollars, and the combined sum bought 150 new records.]
1916 Washington Post 19 Mar. 5/2 Several employes [sic]..have formed a record club for the purchase and exchange of graphophone records.
1958 Manch. Guardian 21 Jan. 6/6 If anything the record club is likely to spread an interest in records of serious music rather than reduce the profits of the big companies.
1996 A. J. Ewbank in A. J. Ewbank & F. T. Papageorgiou Whose Master's Voice? iii. 59 EMI owns the most substantial record club..and commands one-third of the rack-jobbing and budget record market.
Record Commission n. now historical an official body charged with investigating the state of, superintending, and publishing editions of the public records of Britain; (hence, with modifying word) each of the bodies performing similar functions with respect to the national archives of Scotland and Ireland.The commission was established in 1800 by George III and dissolved at the beginning of the reign of Victoria.
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1806 Lit. Mag. Dec. 473/1 Among the works now in the British press, under the direction of the record commission, are the Nonæ Rolls, of Edward the third's time.
1841 Penny Cycl. XIX. 336/1 The Record Commission was renewed six several times between the years 1800 and 1831.
1863 Dublin Rev. Apr. 384 The documents of the Irish State Paper Office, together with collections made under the late Irish Record Commission.
1934 V. H. Galbraith Introd. Use Public Rec. v. 77 A century ago the Record Commission in its publications tried by means of ‘record type’ virtually to reproduce the document, with all its abbreviations.
1952 A. F. Johnson Reed's Hist. Old Eng. Letter Foundries (rev. ed.) xviii. 332 The first important work in connexion with the Scottish Record Commission was Inquisitionum ad Capellam Domini Regis retornatarum quae in publicis Archivis Scotiae adbuc servantur Abbrevatio cum Indicibus, Edinburgh, 1811-16.
1983 Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. 33 173 This was greatly re-inforced by editions of early Irish texts prepared by the Irish Record Commission.
1991 P. Coss Lordship, Knighthood & Locality i. 21 Two principal texts of Warwickshire Hundred Rolls survive, neither of them published in the Record Commission edition of 1812–18.
record committee n. (frequently with capital initials) a committee appointed to superintend the records of a government or other institution; (originally) spec. the select committee of the House of Commons set up to advise on the better superintendence of Britain's public records, at the suggestion of whom the Record Commission was established.
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1800 Rep. Sel. Comm. State of Public Rec. Table ii. 643 Custody of the Clerk of Record Committee.
1801 Ann. Rep. Comm. Public Rec. §2 The Record Committee of the House of Commons.
1863 Jrnl. 80th Ann. Convent. Protestant Episcopal Church Maryland 57 The undersigned, in behalf of the Record Committee of the Diocese, has the honor to make the following report.
1921 Science 30 Dec. 663/2 It is the wish of the record committee of the Zoological Society to continue the publication of this most useful work.
2007 Western Morning News (Plymouth) (Nexis) 3 Aug. 12 The record committee believes the introduction of DNA testing will lead to an increased chance of claims being accepted.
record contract n. = recording contract n. at recording n. Compounds 2.
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society > law > legal obligation > contract > [noun] > other contracts
lease1483
mutuum1486
pre-contract1563
surcontract1584
nudum pactum1603
contract of location1604
subcontract1660
mandate1781
personal contract1831
protocol1842
severable contract1848
employment contract1891
standard form contract1908
recording contract1922
record contract1924
recording deal1943
record deal1945
EULA1992
1924 Christian Sci. Monitor 15 Sept. 7/6 The singers are usually gifted Europeans so little known in America that they have not been tied up in record contracts.
2007 C. Gittins Family Connections 71 I played in a band... We were really hot... We could have had a record contract.
† record-cross n. Obsolete a memorial cross.
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1838 J. Pardoe River & Desart II. 17 The hand..which had planted the record-cross, and the tributary wreath.
record deal n. = record contract n.
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society > law > legal obligation > contract > [noun] > other contracts
lease1483
mutuum1486
pre-contract1563
surcontract1584
nudum pactum1603
contract of location1604
subcontract1660
mandate1781
personal contract1831
protocol1842
severable contract1848
employment contract1891
standard form contract1908
recording contract1922
record contract1924
recording deal1943
record deal1945
EULA1992
1945 Chicago Defender 17 Nov. 16/2 (heading) First lifetime record deal?.. Deek Watson and the Brown Dots have just been inked to the most unusual recording pact on record.
2006 ‘A. Ant’ Stand & Deliver viii. 177 Marco and I helped Danny to get a record deal that year.
record deck n. (a) (now rare) = recording deck n. at recording n. Compounds 2; (b) a mechanism for playing records, with a turntable and pickup but no integral amplifier or speaker; cf. deck n.1 3f.
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1960 San Mateo (Calif.) Times 21 Mar. 20/9 (advt.) Portable Tape System. With Model 960 Stereo Record Deck. Like new. Still under warranty.
1971 Times 28 May 23/5 The amplifier/tuner and the record deck are being put back together to produce what is in fact a smaller and more stylish radiogram with separate speakers.
2003 Which? Oct. 39/1 If you're buying an amplifier for use with a record deck, it should include a special input for turntables.
record hop n. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.) (now chiefly historical) a dance at which the music is provided by records; a place where such an event is held.
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society > leisure > dancing > ball or dance > [noun] > to recorded music
record hop1942
disco1957
discotheque1960
1942 Portsmouth (New Hampsh.) Herald 8 Oct. 5/3 It is planned to hold a ‘Record Hop’ every other Friday evening to defray the cost of the phonograph.
1960 Punch 9 Mar. 345/1 Akin to the juke-box joints are the record-hops.
1966 Wall St. Jrnl. 25 July 1 ‘Record hops’..are dances often organized by a disc jockey and plugged by him over the air, as a means of supplementing his income.
2003 Black Music Res. Jrnl. 23 84 On weekends, Chedwick appeared in person at racially mixed teen record hops held at school gyms.
record jacket n. (a) a personal file or dossier, esp. one detailing an individual's criminal convictions (now rare); (b) a close-fitting, protective cover for a record, typically in the form of a cardboard or paper envelope, and often having on it information about the recording artist, a track list, etc. (now the usual sense).
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1910 Ann. Rep. Commissioners D.C. 1909 I. 340 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (61st Congr., 2nd Sess.: House of Representatives Doc. 110, Pt. 1) CVI A record jacket is established for an individual only when the bureau has acquired additional record of such an individual, and the Bertillon card and card index each bear only the record of the first arrest.
1935 Monroe (Louisiana) Morning World 15 Dec. (Society & Fashions section) 4/4 A ‘Kris Kringle Song’ novelty greeting of the 1915 period. It is a small victrola record in a record jacket upon which is found these jolly lines: [etc.].
1948 Washington Post 14 Mar. b7/6 (advt.) Record jackets, illustrated in color, contain complete lyrics and descriptive notes.
1978 J. Wright & P. W. Lewis Mod. Criminal Justice xiii. 255/2 Boards must lean heavily on the sterile information contained in the convict's ‘record jacket’.
1989 P. Kivy Sound Sentiment ii. 12 In the ‘lowest’ as well as the ‘highest’ forms of musical criticism, on the ‘blurb’ of the record jacket and the essays of [Sir Donald] Tovey.
2017 Telegraph-Jrnl. (New Brunswick) (Nexis) 24 Aug. c1 The real name of this boy from Arkansas doesn't appear on the record jackets or the discs themselves.
record jockey n. U.S. colloquial temporary = disc jockey n.
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society > communication > broadcasting > broadcaster > [noun] > types of
co-host1908
announcer1922
newsreader1925
race-reader1926
newscaster1930
sportscaster1930
quizzee1933
school broadcaster1937
commentator1938
racecaster1938
sportcaster1938
femcee1940
record jockey1940
disc jockey1941
narrator1941
deejay1946
colourman1947
anchorman1948
host1948
jock1952
speakerine1957
presenter1959
linkman1960
anchorwoman1961
rock jock1961
anchor1962
jockey1963
voice-over1966
anchorperson1971
outside broadcaster1971
news anchor1975
talk-master1975
satcaster1982
1940 Variety 3 Apr. 39/3 [Quoting J. Kapp] The name bands are come on for the record jockeys who ride herd over not only Decca records but all the others.
record label n. (a) a circular piece of paper in the centre of a record, giving information about the song title, artist, etc.; (b) a recording company, or a section of one, producing and releasing records under a distinctive name.
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society > occupation and work > business affairs > a business or company > [noun] > companies involved in specific business
misbeliefa1450
safeguarda1450
squatc1450
smearc1476
bleach1486
poulterer1534
water company1710
land-company1805
publishing house1819
railway company1824
oil company1827
bus line1843
rails1848
accountancy1860
art house1882
poulter1884
automaker1899
energy company1910
record label1926
label1930
utility1930
re-roller1931
prefabricator1933
seven sisters1962
energy firm1970
chipmaker1971
fragmentizer1972
fixit1984
infomediary1989
multi-utility1994
society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > [noun] > section of record or recording company
label1907
record label1926
1926 Fitchburg (Mass.) Sentinel 26 Nov. 4/7 (advt.) Look for the words ‘Orthographic Recording’ on the record label. It is your guarantee that you are getting the best artists, the best selections, the best quality record that money can buy.
1937 Pittsburgh Courier 28 Aug. 20/1 Of the seven principal record labels on the market, five report that waxings by colored musicians completely top the lists of their respective best-sellers.
1991 D. Gaines Teenage Wasteland vii. 179 ZOSO was the first of four mystical symbols printed on the record label.
2006 ‘A. Ant’ Stand & Deliver vi. 123 While EG dicked about, other record labels were sending A&R men to watch us perform.
record linkage n. the process of combining items of information or sets of data that relate to the same subject.
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society > communication > information > action of informing > [noun] > information processing
documentation1927
record linkage1946
information processing1950
1946 Amer. Jrnl. Public Health 36 1412/2 In the process of record linkage the uniting of the fact-of-death with the fact-of-birth has been given a special name, ‘death clearance’.
1968 Brit. Med. Bull. 24 208/2 If birth and marriage records are included in the system, it is possible to use record linkage to assemble sibships..and eventually pedigrees.
2002 Oxoniensia 66 80 In the manorial records, the rank of gentlemen and women is always given making record linkage relatively straightforward.
record locking n. Computing a feature which restricts access to individual records to one user or application at a time, in order to prevent inconsistencies which may result from simultaneous editing.
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1975 I. R. Palmer Data Base Syst. App. b10 Concurrent update with record locking is provided by the re-entrant version.
1994 Accountancy Sept. 55/5 (advt.) Network version has sophisticated record locking. Other systems have file locking which means that if you run a stock report, you cannot enter orders!
2003 D. J. Couglas et al. Backup Bk. (ed. 3) v. 75 Writing a database application that can run multi-user services..requires a certain degree of skill to correctly handle conflicts between users (regarding record-locking issues).
record producer n. a person who supervises and directs the production of musical recordings (cf. producer n. 5).
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1954 N.Y. Times 12 Sept. 9/5 Concert managers, disk jockeys, music critics, record producers.
2003 T. Warner Pop Music—Technol. & Creativity viii. 8 (note) [His] skill in remixing..first established him as a record producer and working on remixes has now become a recognized route for young, aspiring producers.
record sleeve n. a close-fitting, protective cover for a record, typically in the form of a cardboard or paper envelope, and often having on it details about the contents of the record, information about the recording artist, etc.; cf. sleeve n. 7f.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > a sound recording > [noun] > record or disc > other parts
jacket sleeve1599
album cover1839
label1907
jacket1935
record sleeve1951
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > [noun] > encasing or sheathing > that which > close-fitting > specific
record sleeve1951
1951 Washington Post 7 Oct. vi. 2/2 (advt.) LP's 50-60% off list price..half price green stock record sleeves..10″ 1.90 per 100..12″ 2.90 per 100.
1960 J. Baldwin in Atlantic Monthly Sept. 46/2 Jazz is blaring from the walls and record sleeves are scattered about.
2001 N. Griffiths Sheepshagger 57 Hunched over the white-lined record sleeve balanced on his knees and with a fiver tubed into his nostril Ianto snorts the amphetamine.
record stone n. rare (a) a stone on which records are inscribed; †(b) a memorial stone (obsolete).
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1807 Sconiana 7 The fatal stone of the Irish legends is supposed to have been a record stone in Kin-tire.
1836 J. H. Newman et al. Lyra Apost. 52 So, let the cliffs and seas of this fair place Be named man's tomb and splendid record-stone.
1940 Classical Jrnl. 35 496 Such an attachment was inscribed on a boundary stone or record stone (ὅρος).
record token n. a voucher which can be exchanged for records costing up to a specified amount; cf. book token n. at book n. Compounds 3.
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > promissory notes or bills of exchange > [noun] > voucher > specific kind of
scrip1818
box top1820
labour note1831
punch-out1899
book token1932
record token1939
slop-chit1946
luncheon voucher1955
dinner card1963
1939 Daily Mirror 24 Nov. 15/3 (advt.) Give record tokens. Post a Record Token to your friend. He chooses the records he likes best at hs own dealer's.
1954 Gramophone Dec. 293 A Record Token takes the risk out of present giving.
1977 Radio Times 26 Nov. 56/1 EMI Record Tokens..can be exchanged at over 5,000 leading record shops.
1992 BBC Music Dec. 42/1 If you need more time to think, there are always record tokens!
record type n. now historical a typeface including special characters which reproduce the contractions or particular letterforms found in medieval manuscripts.
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society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > relating to type > style of type > [noun] > type face or font > reproducing medieval manuscripts
record type1883
1855 Notes & Queries 8 Dec. 447/1 We have printed this document in extenso,..because we have not a fount of Record type.]
1883 Red Dragon June 566 It may be added that the society has been formed with a view to the reproduction in record type of the thirty ‘Pipe Rolls’.
1886 F. W. Maitland Let. 24 Apr. (1965) 19 As regards mode of printing:—The use of ‘record type’ seems undesirable.
1934 V. H. Galbraith Introd. Use Public Rec. v. 77 A century ago the Record Commission in its publications tried by means of ‘record type’ virtually to reproduce the document, with all its abbreviations.
2001 Music & Lett. 82 614/2 The result is something resembling nineteenth-century ‘record type’ and is just as difficult to read.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

recordn.2

Brit. /rᵻˈkɔːd/, U.S. /rəˈkɔrd/, /riˈkɔrd/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: record v.1
Etymology: < record v.1 Compare earlier record n.1
The recording function or mode of a tape player, video recorder, or other recording apparatus; the process of recording; the control used to initiate recording. Cf. attributive uses at record v.1 Compounds 1.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > [noun]
re-recording1846
recording1898
audio recording1928
prerecording1937
record1950
1950 G. A. Briggs Sound Reprod. (ed. 2) xix. 136 By suitable switching of output circuits, one amplifier may be arranged to function for both record and replay.
1968 C. N. G. Matthews Tape Recording iv. 36 During record or reproduce it [sc. the tape] is kept in close contact with the heads by pressure pads or by its own tension.
1968 C. N. G. Matthews Tape Recording iv. 38 Equalization is switched automatically as the machine is switched from record to playback.
1971 Hi-Fi Sound Feb. 49/2 (advt.) 4 track stereo record and replay using popular Compact Cassettes.
1976 K. Bonfiglioli Something Nasty in Woodshed x. 119 Even on virgin tape I still got the gentle muttering if it was played through on ‘record’..at a nil recording level.
1995 Kay & Co. (Worcester) Catal. Autumn–Winter 1087/2 Talkboy FX. Quality biro with secret record and playback.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

recordv.1

Brit. /rᵻˈkɔːd/, U.S. /rəˈkɔrd/, /riˈkɔrd/
Forms: Middle English record (past participle), Middle English recorde (past tense), Middle English recordi (south-eastern), Middle English recordy (south-eastern), Middle English recorte, Middle English–1500s recorde, Middle English– record, 1500s reccord; Scottish pre-1700 racord, pre-1700 racorde, pre-1700 recoird, pre-1700 recorde, pre-1700 1700s– record.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French recorder.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French recorder (French recorder ) to remember (about something) (first half of the 12th cent.; c1050 in reflexive use), to remember, recall (something), to repeat, to recite, to relate, tell, bear witness to, declare, to make a record of (all 12th cent.), to learn by heart, (reflexive) to reflect, meditate, (in law) to report, state, (intransitive) to make a record (all 13th cent. or earlier in Anglo-Norman), to put on record, to declare as one's verdict (14th cent. or earlier in Anglo-Norman), to perform (music) (early 15th cent. or earlier) < classical Latin recordārī (rarely also recordāre ) to call to mind, recollect, in post-classical Latin also to testify (9th cent.), to put on record (frequently from 12th cent. in British sources) < re- re- prefix + cord- , cor heart (see cordi- comb. form); compare accord v., discord v.1, etc. Compare Old Occitan recordar, Catalan recordar (14th cent.), Spanish recordar (13th cent.), Portuguese recordar (14th cent.), Italian ricordare (a1292).In branch IV. apparently by confusion with accord v. (compare accord v. II.).
†I. To learn, practise, or recite.
1.
a. transitive. To learn by heart, to commit to memory, to go over in one's mind; (also) to repeat or say over as a lesson or portion of memorized text, to recite. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > memory > retention in the mind > memorization > memorize, learn by heart [verb (transitive)]
record?c1225
renderc1380
to can by rotec1405
con?a1425
to con by heartc1449
can1496
to bear away1530
get1540
commend to memory1550
commit?1551
to con over1605
rotea1616
lodge1622
to get off by heart1709
memorize1834
rehearse1902
memorate1983
the mind > language > speech > speech-making > recitation > recite [verb (transitive)]
sayOE
record?c1225
reckonc1350
renderc1380
repeat1451
recite1481
to say over1560
bespout1575
decline1597
to call over1674
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 188 Make hwase bereð þet word recorden [c1230 Corpus Cambr. recordin] hit biforen hire.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 257 (MED) He nolde yhyere bleþeliche zigge ne recordi þing þet ssolde misliki god.
c1390 Pistel of Swete Susan (Vernon) 60 (MED) Riȝtwys Iugement recordet þei none.
?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 172 Better him wer..Þe seruise of his song recorded & lered.
a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1882) iii. l. 51 Lay al þis mene while Troylus, Recordynge his lesson.
a1425 Rule St. Benet (Lansd.) (1902) 11 (MED) Sain Benet sais..tat ye recorde wel þe cumantemens of god.
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 250v Anon the crowe recorded also the other woordes whiche she had so often heard.
1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Apr. 30 If hys ditties bene so trimly dight, I pray thee, Hobbinoll, recorde some one.
1614 T. Lodge tr. Seneca Of Constancy Wise Man xi, in tr. Seneca Wks. 665 Some men..giue them [sc. children] masters to teach them to scoffe and bite at euery man, as if they had but recorded their lesson.
a1656 J. Hales Golden Remains (1659) i. 153 The Gardiner whilest he prunes his Vines and Arbors, may record some one of Davids sonnets.
b. transitive. To take to heart, to give heed to. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > attention > take notice of, heed [verb (transitive)]
yemec897
understandc1000
beseea1225
heeda1225
bihedec1250
tentc1330
to look into ——c1350
rewardc1350
undertakea1382
considerc1385
recorda1393
behold?a1400
receivea1425
advertc1425
attend1432
advertise?a1439
regard1526
respect1543
eye?c1550
mind1559
panse1559
to take knowledge of1566
to consider of1569
suspect1590
pass1609
matter1652
watch1676
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. 3681 (MED) He tolde him many a dredful sawe, Bot Jason wolde it noght recorde.
1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus 108. 34 Who euer hath foughte with ye goddis.., but he came to a mischief (recorde the Tytanes gyauntes).
2. transitive and intransitive. Of a songbird (rarely of a person): to practise or sing (a tune) in an undertone; to go over (a song or tune) quietly or silently; to produce subsong. In later use technical. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [verb (intransitive)] > sing > practise
record1483
society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > sing [verb (transitive)]
singc825
leadOE
galea1000
record1483
chant1566
modulate?1567
carol?1578
strain1589
relish1592
lyrica1704
vocalize1782
lip1789
flute1842
society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > sing [verb (intransitive)] > sing in low tone
feignc1440
record1483
toodle1865
1483 ( tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage of Soul (Caxton) v. viii. f. lxxxxix When they hadde these Instrumentes, they recorded songes besyly tylle that they were..parfyte ynowe in al maner musike.
?1518 A. Barclay tr. D. Mancinus Myrrour Good Maners sig. Fvi Therfore first record thou: as byrde within a cage..thy tunys temprynge longe And than..forth with thy plesant songe.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 681/2 This byrde recordeth all redy, she wyll synge within a whyle.
a1625 J. Fletcher Monsieur Thomas (1639) iii. iii. sig. G4v Ye may record a little, or ye may whistle, As time shall minister, but, for maine singing, Pray ye satisfie your selves.
1689 R. Milward Selden's Table-talk 46 You see a Bird by often whistling to learn a tune, and a Month after record it to her self.
1754 E. Albin Nat. Hist. Singing Birds iv. 50 If any of the young birds or nestlings, before they can feed themselves, do record something of song, you will perceive the motion of their throats when they record.
1773 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 63 250 I have known instances of birds beginning to record when they were not a month old.
1834 E. Jesse Gleanings Nat. Hist. 2nd Ser. 84 This tune..I could distinctly hear it inwardly whistle, or, in the language of bird-fanciers, record it.
1871 C. Darwin Descent of Man I. i. ii. 55 The young males continue practising, or, as the bird-catchers say, recording, for ten or eleven months.
3. Chiefly of a songbird.
a. transitive. To sing (a song or tune); to sing of or about, render in song. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > birds > [verb (transitive)] > to make sound
record?a1534
pipec1751
flute1842
society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > sing [verb (transitive)] > celebrate in song
singc900
record?a1534
chant1557
warble1605
carol1637
paean1820
besing1828
minstrel1873
?a1534 H. Medwall Nature i. sig. aii Who taught the nyghtyngall to recorde besyly Her strange entunys in sylence of the nyght.
1538 Prymer in Eng. after Vse of Sarum sig. Qviii Dauid..doth fyrst as it were in a songe recorde and expresse his great deieccyon & downefal.
1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 28v Wher vnder a sweet Arbour of Eglantine, the birdes recording their sweete notes, [etc.].
1597 J. Lyly Woman in Moone iii. i. 79 Let vs go walke the woods, Where warbling birds recorde our happines.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) v. iv. 6 Here can I..to the Nightingales complaining Notes Tune my distresses [printed distrestes], and record my woes.
b. intransitive. To sing, warble. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [verb (intransitive)] > sing
singOE
chant?a1500
record1590
firdon16..
warble1606
jerk1768
tootle1820
roll1886
society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > sing [verb (intransitive)]
singc825
chantc1405
carpc1425
relesch1513
deliver1530
record1590
strain1602
cherubim1748
vocalize1782
nightingalize1799
sing-song1828
outsing1877
1590 T. Lodge Rosalynde (Hunterian Club) 27 Partlie to heare the melodie of the sweete birdes which recorded.
1592 T. Kyd Spanish Trag. ii. sig. D2 Harke Madame how the birds record by night.
1616 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals II. iv. 97 While the Nymph did earnestly contest Whether the Birds or she recorded best.
1707 Coles's Dict. Eng.-Lat. (ed. 6) (at cited word) To Record as birds, certatum mosculari, alternis canere.
†II. To remember, remind, or reflect.
4.
a. transitive. To call to mind, to recall, to remember. Also intransitive. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > memory > call to mind, recollect [verb (transitive)]
i-thenchec897
bethinkOE
mingOE
thinkOE
monelOE
umbethinkc1175
to draw (also take) into (or to) memorya1275
minc1330
record1340
revert1340
remembera1382
mindc1384
monishc1384
to bring to mindc1390
remenec1390
me meanetha1400
reducec1425
to call to mind1427
gaincall1434
pense1493
remord?1507
revocate1527
revive1531
cite1549
to call back1572
recall1579
to call to mind (also memory, remembrance)1583
to call to remembrance1583
revoke1586
reverse1590
submonish1591
recover1602
recordate1603
to call up1606
to fetch up1608
reconjure1611
collect1612
remind1615
recollect1631
rememorize1632
retrieve1644
think1671
reconnoitre1729
member1823
reminisce1829
rememorate1835
recomember1852
evoke1856
updraw1879
withcall1901
access1978
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 142 (MED) Huanne he recordeþ þet lif of iesu crist and his holy passioun..he uoryet alle his zorȝes.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Job xxi. 6 Whan I shal recorde [L. et ego quando recordatus fuero], drede and trembling shal smyte togidere my flesh.
a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) 4191 (MED) Recorde what þou hast herde, Seyde and sunge yn al þe werlde.
c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 181 (MED) I haue seyd my synne, in herte recordynge.
c1450 (?a1400) T. Chestre Sir Launfal (1930) 831 (MED) Þe Kyng recordede þo, And bad hym bryng hys lef yn syȝt.
1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. lxxxv Do we so..that men mowe recorde the worthynesse of knyght hode.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 681/2 When I recorde the gentyll wordes he hath had unto me, it maketh my herte full sorye for hym.
1599 T. Moffett Silkewormes 65 For they recording what they were of late Dare not yet mount aboue their former state.
a1656 J. Hales Serm. at Eton (1673) i. 5 Do you already know your duty? it serves to commemorate, and to make you record it.
1789 W. Cowper Annus Memorabilis 34 An era..Which joyful I will oft record, And thankful, at my frugal board.
b. intransitive. To have a memory or recollection of a person or thing. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > memory > have in one's mind, remember [verb (intransitive)]
monelOE
to have memory (of)a1275
recorda1382
remembera1393
mina1400
meana1425
to have‥in urec1450
to be remembereda1500
minda1500
retain1581
rememorate1606
reminisce1896
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Gen. viii. 1 Þe lord forsoþ recordyde [a1425 L.V. hadde mynde; L. recordatus] of noe.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. lxiii. 11 He recordide [L. recordatus est] of the daȝes of the world.
c1475 tr. C. de Pisan Livre du Corps de Policie (Cambr.) (1977) 111 (MED) That suffysed theim inough to recorde and talke of the werres.
1517 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1928) i. 12 Recorde of Satourne, the fyrste kynge of Creete.
1567 Triall of Treasure sig. D Recorde of Dionisius, a king of much fame.
1613 N. Breton Vncasing Machiuils Instr. 23 And thus recording of an heauie care, He feeds perhaps vpon an hungry fare.
c. transitive (reflexive). To remember. Also with of. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > memory > remember [verb (reflexive)]
mingOE
bethink?c1225
umbethinka1300
rememberc1350
rememberc1405
record1483
remembera1522
think1556
revive1774
1483 ( tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage of Soul (Caxton) (1859) i. xv. 13 Ful wel I me record..Of this mater ne touchyd I no word.
a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 150 A man sholde hym recorde of thynges that afore hath bene.
5. transitive. To remind (a person). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > memory > reminder, putting in mind > remind [verb (transitive)]
mingOE
mina1200
bethink1340
recorda1382
reducec1425
rememberc1425
rememorate1460
mind1524
revive?1564
remembrance1593
recall1595
prompt1600
remind1621
enmind1645
immind1647
refricate1657
commonish1661
flap1790
to touch up1796
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Exod. ii. 24 God..was recordid [a1425 L.V. hadde mynde; L. recordatus est] of the bonde of peese þat he couenauntyd wiþ Abraham, ysaac & Iacob.
?c1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Cambr. Ii.3.21) (1886) iv. pr. ii. l. 21 It ne recordeth me nat.
c1460 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Rawl. F.149) l. 829 I shal yow recorde [c1405 Hengwrt Ye woot youre forward and it yow recorde].
6.
a. transitive. To reflect on (something); to ponder (something) with oneself. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > meditate, reflect [verb (intransitive)]
howOE
study?c1225
bethinkc1300
muse1340
recorda1400
imaginec1400
to take thoughtc1450
contemplaire1474
medite1483
remord1535
contemplate?1538
ruminate1547
meditate1560
scance1606
excogitate1630
cogitate1633
reflect1772
the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > meditate upon [verb (transitive)]
thinkOE
overthinkOE
recorda1400
studya1400
imaginec1405
revolve?c1425
contemplairec1525
brood1589
recollect1626
a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) 8702 (MED) Þe lorde lestened þe wurdes weyl, And recorded hem euery deyl.
?c1400 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (BL Add. 10340) (1868) i. pr. i. l. 28 I..recorded [e] þise þinges wiþ my self.
a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) v. l. 3918 Ȝhe sulde wiþe ȝour self recorde Quhat ȝhe haf beyn.
1583 T. Stocker tr. Tragicall Hist. Ciuile Warres Lowe Countries ii. 46 Certaine dayes of deliberation are giuen to the prisoner to record with himselfe, who or what his enemies be.
1586 A. Day Eng. Secretorie i. sig. L6v We shall recorde with our selues, in what league, amitie or duetie, wee before time stoode bound to him.
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 550 Record with your selfe how honorable and pleasant a thing this seemeth unto you.
b. intransitive. To think about or meditate on a person or thing. With on, upon, (occasionally) in. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iii. 4083 (MED) Allas, Fortune..Record on [v.r. of] Troylus, þat fro þi whele so lowe By fals envie þou hast ouer-þrowe..And of þe wo þat he hath endured.
a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) viii. 478 Record on Cirus & many othir mo.
c1475 (a1449) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 825 (MED) This world is a thurghfare ful of woo..Recorde on Fraunce and Parys..As Martis chaunce torned to and froo.
?1533 W. Tyndale Expos. Mathew vi. f. xcv To kepe the couenaunt of the Lorde thy God, and to recorde therin daye and night.
1564 T. Becon New Catech. in Wks. 488 Let not the boke of this lawe departe out of thy mouth, but recorde therein daye and nyght.
a1604 R. Hall Life Fisher (1655) xxii. 206 Himselfe praying all the way, and recording upon the words which he before had read.
III. To relate, narrate, or put on record.
†7.
a. transitive. To relate (something) in words; to narrate orally. Also in clauses with as. Obsolete.In later use only in extended use from sense 9.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > narration > narrate, relate, or tell [verb (transitive)]
singc900
reckonOE
readOE
tellOE
showc1175
betellc1275
i-tellec1275
rehearsec1300
record1340
accounta1387
to chase forthc1386
retretec1400
reporta1402
count?a1425
recite1448
touch?a1450
repeat1451
deliverc1454
explikec1454
renderc1460
recount1477
to show forth1498
relate1530
to set forth1530
rechec1540
reaccount1561
recitate1568
history1600
recant1603
to run througha1616
enarrate1750
narrate1754
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 59 Þet is þe zenne of þan þet zuo bleþeliche recordeþ hare dedes and hare prowesses.
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) 1828 (MED) Þei þat misseden here mete wold make gret noyse, & record it redeli in rome.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) Prol. 964 (MED) In this wise, as I recorde, The man is cause of alle wo.
?c1450 tr. Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry (1906) 52 (MED) They..were ioyned to penaunce, to go naked afore the procession..beting hem self and recordyng her synne tofore the pepill.
1485 Malory's Morte Darthur (Caxton) i. iii–v. sig. aijv The same nyghte..the houre of his deth as his knyytes record ther came in to my castel..a man lyke my lord.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 199 Quhois crewall sclander seruis ded, And in my name all leis recordis.
1744 J. Wesley & C. Wesley Coll. Psalms & Hymns (new ed.) i. 52 Who in th' Assemblies of the Just Will still record thy Praise.
b. transitive. With to or indirect object. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vi. 1414 (MED) Bot somwhat of his aventures..To thee..I wol recorde.
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. 1132 (MED) We..Compellid wern..to reste vs her..And after-ward to holde furþe our way..Liche as þou maist recorde to þi kyng.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) xi. l. 542 The Bruce than in his mynd remordyt Thai wordis suth Wallace had him recordyt.
1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) i. 72 Thai all concordyt That all thar spek suld be recordyt Till Schyr Eduuard.
c1500 Melusine (1895) 102 The Erle..demanded of Raymondin where he had be so long, and he recorded to hym alle his auenture.
c. transitive. To declare as one's verdict; to pronounce (a judgment). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > judging > judge or determine judicially [verb (transitive)] > give verdict or sentence > declare as one's verdict
recordc1400
adjudicate1655
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xviii. 197 (MED) I, Riȝtwisnesse, recorde þus with treuth, Þat her peyne be perpetuel.
c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. iv. 474 After þe dede þat ys ydo, the dome shal recorde, Mercy oþer no mercy.
a1450 York Plays (1885) 330 (MED) I recorde wele þe right, ȝe will no raþere refuse hym, To he be dreuen to his dede.
d. intransitive. Scottish. to hear record: to hear tell (of a person). Cf. hear v. 3b. Obsolete.In quot. a1540 transitive with that clause as object.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > information > action of informing > give information [verb (intransitive)] > be informed
hear tellOE
hearc1320
to hear recorda1500
understand1574
learn1756
a1500 Lancelot of Laik 121 It ganyth not, as I have harde recorde, The seruand for to disput with the lord.
a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) viii. l. 1472 As ȝhe herd racorde.
a1540 (c1460) G. Hay tr. Bk. King Alexander 3251 Of before of him he herde recorde That he was all-way reddy to concorde.
1594 (a1555) D. Lindsay Hist. Squyer Meldrum l. 1520, in Wks. (1931) I. 186 Thair dwelt in Fyfe ane agit Lord, That of this Squyer hard record.
†8.
a. transitive. To bear witness to; to attest, confirm. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > attest, bear witness [verb (transitive)]
witne?c1225
witnessa1300
testimonyc1330
record1340
testify1393
depose1529
detest1562
voucher1609
voucha1616
evidence1620
bespeak1674
rap1728
assert1821
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 213 Þe greate guodnesses þet he [sc. god] þe heþ y-do, ase holy cherche recordeþ [c1450 Bk. Vices & Virtues witnesseþ].
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1882) VIII. 348 (MED) Messangers..were i-sent to the popes court forto have þese covenauntes recorded by þe popes billes.
1476 in J. Raine Vol. Eng. Misc. N. Counties Eng. (1890) 35 Thys wyll we recorde and bere wittenesse be thys lettre of record sealed with our seales.
1583 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (ed. 4) II. 842 As is most certaynly testified and recorded by diuers, which both did see & also did write vpon the same.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) iv. ii. 4 Let me be recorded by the righteous Gods, I am as poore as you. View more context for this quotation
1640 W. Somner Antiq. Canterbury App. 493 The performance of which his promise you shall finde recorded and testified by a Successor of his.
b. intransitive. To testify. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > bear witness, testify [verb (intransitive)]
to bear (one) witnesslOE
witne?c1225
to bear witnessinga1300
to bear recordc1330
testimonyc1330
testify1377
witnessc1380
recordc1400
militatec1600
suffragate1620
testate1624
depone1640
attest1672
rap1728
certify1874
certificate1907
c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. v. 29 To take red at reson þat recorde sholde By-fore þe kyng and conscience.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1897–1973) 110 (MED) It was a mery gle, sich hard I neuer none, I recorde.
c. transitive. To call to witness. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > attest, bear witness [verb (transitive)] > call to witness
to take witness of1390
vouchc1412
record1590
attest1609
to swear downa1616
appeal1645
to take up1821
invoke1851
1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 1st Pt. sig. Fv For all blot of foule inchastity, I record heauen, her heauenly selfe is cleare.
9.
a. transitive. To relate, narrate, or mention in a written account; to put or set down in writing or some other permanent form; to put on record. Also in clauses with as. Also intransitive. Cf. sense 7.
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society > communication > record > [verb (transitive)]
record1340
minda1382
remembera1382
to put in remembrancea1393
denotate1599
denote1612
chronologizec1616
log1823
society > communication > record > written record > record in writing [verb (transitive)]
writeeOE
awriteeOE
markOE
titlea1325
record1340
registera1393
accordc1450
chronicle1460
to write upa1475
calendar1487
enrol1530
prickc1540
scripture1540
to set down1562
report1600
reservea1616
tabulatea1646
to take down1651
actuate1658
to commit to writing (also paper)1695
to mark down1881
slate1883
society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > tell (story) [verb (transitive)] > tell story of
record1340
to write upa1475
to story out1570
to story forth1591
story1610
yarn1840
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 67 (MED) Hou grat is þe zenne ous sseweþ wel þe wreche þet god kan nyme, ase recordeþ holi wryt.
c1475 (a1449) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 663 Clerkys recorde, by gret auctoryte, Hornes wer yove to bestys ffor dyffence.
c1480 (a1400) St. Eugenia 239 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 131 It nedis nocht to recorde here þe dole.
a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) ii. Prol. l. 30 Wiþe Orosius we wil discorde In til our dat qwhen we racorde Befor or fra þe byrtht of God.
1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boece Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) 60438 Of the expensis, gif I richt record, Of ilk bischop and euirilk secular lord [etc.].
?a1560 in T. Wright Songs & Ballads Reign Philip & Mary (1860) 2 Yet God made hyme promys, as Scrypture dothe reccord.
1579 E. K. in E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. May 54 Gloss. Which story is first recorded of Plutarch, in his booke of the ceasing of oracles.
1601 R. Dolman tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. III. 379 Plinie recordeth many other wonders concerning these beasts.
1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ ii. iii. §1 After he hath recorded those faults, he seeks not to extenuate them.
1696 W. Whiston New Theory of Earth iv. 386 The numbers of the Children of Israel were exactly taken, and are as exactly recorded.
1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. i. i. 2 Those Biographers who have recorded the Actions of great and worthy Persons of both Sexes. View more context for this quotation
1771 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. l. 191 The services you have done the nation..have been faithfully recorded.
1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe I. ix. 165 By this name the stranger had recorded himself in the books of the tourney.
1820 W. Irving Sketch Bk. II. 265 The last words of his that are recorded, are worthy the greatness of his soul.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. xxi. 343 I have recorded certain winter measurements made on the Mer de Glace.
1901 R. Kipling Kim ix. 233 Pencil notes on the edge of an old muster-roll record that he was punished several times for ‘conversing with improper persons’.
1959 R. Lardner Best Short Stories VII. 115 Tommy parted with a twenty dollar bill and recorded the transaction in a small black book.
1987 P. Auster Country of Last Things (1988) 22 I can only record, I cannot pretend to understand.
1998 H. Rous in O. Clark Diaries Introd. p. xxiii Ossie's first knock-out coat..was recorded in a Vogue photograph by David Bailey.
2007 Collect it! Jan. 28/2 Their first book..recorded the history of the region's knitting industry.
b. transitive. In extended use: to cause (something, esp. a troublous experience) to make a permanent mark or have a continuing effect (in or on a person's face, mind, etc.); to register.
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society > communication > indication > marking > mark [verb (transitive)] > a person with some condition or quality
record1580
write1594
impicture1595
imprint1712
1580 J. Bell tr. J. Foxe Pope Confuted 17 For what man is able eyther by speach to expresse, or recorde in memorie the infinite thousandes of most holy martyres deuoured with vnspeakeable crueltie.
1591 E. Spenser Ruines of Time in Complaints sig. D That same womans piteous paine; Whose wordes recording in my troubled braine I felt such anguish wound my feeble heart.
1601 S. Daniel Epist. to C'tess Cumberland xvi This note (Madam) of your Worthiness Remaines recorded in so many Hearts.
1647 H. More Philos. Poems i. i. i What so under eye Doth fall, or is record in memorie.
1726 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xvii. 580 Just and unjust recording in their mind.
1781 W. Cowper Truth 161 In faithful memory she records the crimes, Or real or fictitious, of the times.
1814 W. Wordsworth Excursion ix. 410 But is the property of him alone Who hath beheld it, noted it with care, And in his mind recorded it with love! View more context for this quotation
1894 R. F. Murray Poems 95 Round about the eyes Deep rings recorded sleepless nights.
1906 J. Galsworthy Man of Property 47 Her good, round old face had gone a little sour... It was thus that she recorded her permanent resentment at the loss of Septimus Small.
1957 L. P. Hartley Hireling xxvi. 216 His mind recorded the fact that the whole situation had changed.
2007 Boston Globe (Nexis) 25 Nov. n9 The weight of every minute of his time on earth seems recorded on that face.
c. transitive. To have (something, esp. one's verdict or vote) properly placed on record; to give (a verdict or vote).
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society > law > transfer of property > types of transfer > charter or deed conveying property > [verb (transitive)] > have transfer recorded
record1600
society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > judging > judge or determine judicially [verb (transitive)] > give verdict or sentence
givea1300
findc1400
passa1616
to bring in1684
record1824
the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > expression of choice by some approved method > give (a vote) [verb (transitive)]
pass1642
throw1648
poll1717
record1856
cast1871
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iv. i. 385 That he doe record a gift heere in the Court of all he dies possest vnto his sonne. View more context for this quotation
1769 A. Ward Two Lett. i. 14 There was an equality in the vote; upon which Mr. S. said, his vote would turn it, and so recorded it a vote.
1824 Fatal Effects of Gambling 131 He was willing that the Jury should record a verdict of ‘Not Guilty’.
1856 L. S. Cushing Elements Law & Pract. Legisl. Assemblies U.S. vi. iii. 708 If they do not apply until afterwards, they can only be permitted to record their votes by leave of the house.
1926 D. C. Brewer Conquest New Eng. by Immigrant ix. 122 Blocks of non-English speaking foreigners are railroaded into citizenship in time to record a vote for some legislator or executive who is fitted for anything but office.
1975 Guardian 25 Feb. 6/1 He recorded a verdict of death from natural causes.
2007 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 12 Oct. 6 Andrew Walker, the assistant deputy coroner, recorded verdicts of unlawful killing.
10. transitive. Of a machine, instrument, or device: to set down (a message, reading, etc.) in some permanent form; to show or register (a reading or measurement).
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society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telegraphy > telegraph a message [verb (transitive)] > record message
to take off1862
record1873
tick-off1934
1873 F. Jenkin Electr. & Magn. xxii. §5 Sometimes the Morse signals are indicated to the ear or eye without being recorded.
1895 Daily News 29 Jan. 6/5 The Thompson and Marsden Patent Recorder..is a machine to be attached to the indicator posts of steam vessels for recording..every order as it is given by the master from the bridge to the engineer below.
1946 Nature 28 Dec. 943/1 The received signal was recorded continuously on a recording milliammeter.
1967 Jrnl. Pediatrics 70 425/2 All electric signals were amplified and recorded on a Sanborn Model 350 polygraph.
1991 Sunday Mail (Queensland, Austral.) (Nexis) 13 Oct. The Breathalyser recorded a reading of .050.
2004 I. S. Robinson Measuring Oceans from Space iv. 65 Every sensor requires a finite time to record a measurement.
11.
a. transitive. To convert (sounds, images, a broadcast, etc.) into permanent form for later reproduction or broadcast, formerly using mechanical means, now chiefly using magnetic tape or digital electronic techniques. Also occasionally intransitive.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > record [verb (transitive)]
register1797
write1886
record1888
can1907
re-record1927
pre-record1941
pretape1958
audiotape1961
1888 Science 25 May 247/2 There is no doubt that the phonograph can accurately record all varieties of sound.
1921 System June 593 (advt.) The Dictaphone... All telephone messages are automatically recorded and cannot be neglected or forgotten.
1935 H. C. Bryson Gramophone Rec. iv. 70 A good modern recorder is designed to record frequencies between 250 and 5,000 without discrimination.
1962 A. MacLean Satan Bug v. 80 I had tape and film to record the soft, lilting cadences of her voice.
1972 Daily Tel. 29 Jan. 3 The full proceedings of an inquest were recorded for broadcasting for the first time yesterday.
1980 S. Brett Dead Side of Mike xiii. 145 I'd better go. We're about to record.
2004 Fresno (Calif.) Bee (Nexis) 27 Feb. e1 I was 13, and stayed up almost all night the day the song premiered, trying to record it off the radio.
b. intransitive. With adverb, as well, badly, etc. Of a performer or instrument: to be suited to sound recording.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > record [verb (intransitive)]
register1893
record1923
1923 O. Mitchell Talking Machine Industry viii. 88 It has been complained by some that, in technical phrase, she does not record well.
1944 R. Pesotta Bread upon Waters xxxi. 354 If they habitually stayed out nights, drinking and fooling around in night clubs, their voices would crack and record badly.
1985 J. Shirley in B. Sterling Mirrorshades (1986) 143 The engineers claimed that live drums didn't record well.
2004 T. Brooks Lost Sounds (2005) viii. 115 Although his voice recorded well, his style on record was a bit stiff.
c. transitive. Of a performer, band, etc.: to perform (a piece of music, a song, etc.) for the purpose of making a permanent recording.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > record [verb (transitive)] > of a performer
record1927
1927 Daily Tel. 12 Feb. 7 She has recorded the Ave Maria from ‘Otello’.
1958 P. Gammond Decca Bk. Jazz xxi. 262 Lyttelton..recorded three brilliant Creole-styled versions of Tin Pan Alley songs.
1977 Maclean's 5 Sept. 31/1 The first album she recorded for rca..went ‘gold’.
1999 B. James Amer. Band i. 10 Although the band recorded a single for A&M called ‘You Lie’, it was never released.
2004 B. Dylan Chronicles I. iv. 198 We recorded the song with the full band on the floor.
d. intransitive. Of a performer, band, etc.: to produce music for the purpose of making a permanent recording; to make a recording.
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1927 Daily Tel. 12 Feb. 7 She has recorded the Ave Maria from ‘Otello’..as if she had recorded all her life!
1928 Melody Maker Feb. 155/3 The band..has recently jumped into prominence, having already recorded for Edison Bell.
1966 Listener 10 Mar. 345/1 Mostly they recorded at the end of their careers, and violinists seem to deteriorate much earlier than pianists.
2003 Rough Guide to Rock (ed. 3) 684/1 Spence..flipped while the band were recording in New York, brandishing a fire axe in the studio.
12. transitive. Chiefly Sport. To achieve; to post (a result).
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1892 Times 4 Jan. 6 Royal Liverpool golf club... Mr. Cumming Macdona recorded a win for the second-class optional.
1929 F. A. M. Webster Athletics of Today xvi. 210 De Hart Hubbard's leg gave him trouble at Pris in 1924, and that was why he recorded two no-jumps in three trials.
1969 D. M. Smith Italy (ed. 2) vii. xxi. 255 The Rome party congress of 1906 had recorded a victory for ‘integralism’..yet revolutionary socialism continued to spread.
2003 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 2 May c13/4 Tony Battie was a warrior in the paint, recording three of his four rejections in the first quarter.
†IV. To accord.
13. intransitive. To relate or belong to. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > relevance or pertinence > [verb (intransitive)]
belimpOE
beholda1067
belielOE
pertaina1325
pendc1330
appendc1386
appertainc1386
holdc1430
pretenda1470
recorda1500
depend1525
extenda1533
inherea1628
to make to ——1645
apply1741
a1500 Lancelot of Laik (1870) 606 Hyme lakid nocht that to a lord recordith [v.r. accordith].

Compounds

C1. Used attributively to denote a component or control of a tape recorder, video recorder, etc., concerned with a recording function, esp. record button, record head. Cf. record n.2
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1946 Trans. Amer. Inst. Electr. Engineers 65 216/2 The playback head is located a few feet along the wire from the record head so that in listening tests it is possible to get a quick comparison between a few bars of music as recorded and played back.
1950 J. W. Godfrey & S. W. Amos Sound Recording & Reprod. (1952) vi. 162 When the Record button is depressed, current is fed to the wiping head.
1976 I. R. Sinclair Master Stereo Cassette Recording i. 9 Though some high quality reel-to-reel machines use separate record and replay heads,..it is usual on cassette recorders to have only one head used for both recording and for replay.
1991 OnSat 10 Feb. 123/2 S-VHS [is] an improved VHS recording method using better record heads and improved magnetic tape.
2001 Computer Music May 69/4 Mute, solo and record buttons for each channel sit below the new phase and interleave selectors.
C2.
record–reproduce adj. (also record/reproduce) relating to or involving both recording and reproduction functions.
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1951 Bell Syst. Techn. Jrnl. 30 1146 The process was repeated..for several record–reproduce speeds.
1989 Computer Music Jrnl. 13 82/1 Specifications for the 238 Syncassette include erase and record/reproduce heads.
2006 Radio (Nexis) 1 Dec. 94 The record/reproduce head was mounted on a carrier that moved in a straight line across the rotating disc.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

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