Definitions of record:

  • noun:   the sum of recognized accomplishments
    Example: "The lawyer has a good record"
  • noun:   an extreme attainment; the best (or worst) performance ever attested (as in a sport)
    Example: "He tied the Olympic record"
  • noun:   a compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone
    Example: "Al Smith used to say, `Let's look at the record'"
  • noun:   anything (such as a document or a phonograph record or a photograph) providing permanent evidence of or information about past events
    Example: "The film provided a valuable record of stage techniques"
  • noun:   a document that can serve as legal evidence of a transaction
    Example: "They could find no record of the purchase"
  • noun:   the number of wins versus losses and ties a team has had
    Example: "At 9-0 they have the best record in their league"
  • noun:   a list of crimes for which an accused person has been previously convicted
    Example: "He ruled that the criminal record of the defendant could not be disclosed to the court"
  • noun:   sound recording consisting of a disc with continuous grooves; formerly used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracked in the grooves
  • verb:   be aware of
  • verb:   register electronically
    Example: "They recorded her singing"
  • verb:   make a record of; set down in permanent form
  • verb:   indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments
  • verb:   be or provide a memorial to a person or an event
  • name:  A surname (rare: 1 in 100000 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #10031)