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/rəkˈɔrdɪŋ/ /rɪkˈɔrdɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Record v. t. (past & past part. recorded; pres. part. recording)

1.

To recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate. (Obs.) "I it you record."

2.

To repeat; to recite; to sing or play. (Obs.) "They longed to see the day, to hear the lark Record her hymns, and chant her carols blest."

3.

To preserve the memory of, by committing to writing, to printing, to inscription, or the like; to make note of; to write or enter in a book or on parchment, for the purpose of preserving authentic evidence of; to register; to enroll; as, to record the proceedings of a court; to record historical events. "Those things that are recorded of him... are written in the chronicles of the kings."

To record a deed, To record a mortgage, To record a lease, etc., to have a copy of the same entered in the records of the office designated by law, for the information of the public.

Record v. i.

1.

To reflect; to ponder. (Obs.) "Praying all the way, and recording upon the words which he before had read."

2.

To sing or repeat a tune. (Obs.) "Whether the birds or she recorded best."

adjective

Recording adj. Keeping a record or a register; as, a recording secretary; applied to numerous instruments with an automatic appliance which makes a record of their action; as, a recording gauge or telegraph.

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"Recording" Quotes from Famous Books

... cottage. He glanced up the almost deserted high-street, in which every rounded cobble and white flagstone radiated heat. A high-class automobile had dashed past twice in forty minutes, but the pace was on the borderland of doubt, so the guardian of the public weal had contented himself with recording its ...

— The Postmaster's Daughter • Louis Tracy

... in recording the continued steadiness and good conduct of my men, and I regret extremely the necessity which has compelled me to dispense with the services of two of them before the termination of the expedition, and after they have taken so considerable a ...

— Journals Of Expeditions Of Discovery Into Central • Edward John Eyre

... allowed to mention a young lady's legs, on any terms, I would observe of Miss Slowboy's that there was a fatality about them which rendered them singularly liable to be grazed; and that she never effected the smallest ascent or descent, without recording the circumstance upon them with a notch, as Robinson Crusoe marked the days upon his wooden calendar. But as this might be considered ungenteel, ...

— The Cricket on the Hearth • Charles Dickens

... pyramidal-shaped cache of stones, six feet square at the base, and eight or nine feet high. In a little chamber about a foot square half-way to the apex, and extending to the center of the pile, he placed a self-recording spirit thermometer, a small tin cylinder containing records of the expedition, and then sealed up the aperture with a closely fitting stone. The cache was surmounted with a small American flag made by Mrs. Greely, but there were only thirteen stars, the number of the old revolutionary ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884 • Various

... in the cabinet of treasures bequeathed by Dr Griffiths, our benefactor in many ways unknown but to his friends. This tie of courtesy and history between a regiment and a college, arms and the gown, is worth recording and ...

— The Life and Times of John Wilkins • Patrick A. Wright-Henderson

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