Other forms: recorded, records, recording
A record is a written account kept so that it will not be lost — the surgery keeps your medical records, the school keeps a record of who was absent. It is also the best anyone has ever managed: the world record for the hundred metres, broken by three hundredths of a second.
And it is the flat black disc music was sold on, spinning at thirty-three turns a minute, back in the shops again now. Noun and verb sound different: you reCORD a song, with the stress at the end, but you play a REcord, with the stress at the front. Fix the phrases — break a record, hold the record, set a record, keep a record OF something. Off the record means the journalist may not print it. And a criminal record is the list of your convictions: he has a record, and a clean record means there is nothing on it.
1nounaccountA written account of facts or events, kept for later use.~14%
“The library keeps a record of every loan.”
2nounbestThe best performance ever achieved in a sport or activity.~37%
“She broke the national record by half a second.”
3nounmusicA flat black disc that music is stored on and played from.~10%
“He put an old jazz record on the turntable.”
4nounpastA person's past behaviour as officially known, especially convictions.~2%
“The driver had a clean record until last year.”
5verbwriteTo write something down or store it so that it is kept.~14%
“The nurse recorded his temperature every hour.”
6verbsoundTo store sound or pictures so that they can be played back.~23%
“They recorded the whole album in three days.”
Shares are an estimate: a language model read 21 sentences found in the wild and placed 21 of them on a sense — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.
Also accepted in games: world record
Record came into Middle English from Old French record, from recorder, and underneath sits the Proto-Indo-European root ḱerd-, the one that also gives heart. To record was to call something back to mind — to learn it by heart. Paper, wax and tape came much later; the first recording device was memory.
Proto-Indo-European
*ḱerd-
Old French
record
Middle English
recorde
English, today
record
From Middle English recorde, borrowed from Old French record, from recorder. See record.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA