(v. t.) To recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to
meditate.
(v. t.) To repeat; to recite; to sing or play.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. i.) To reflect; to ponder.
(v. i.) To sing or repeat a tune.
(v. t.) A writing by which some act or event, or a number of
acts or events, is recorded; a register; as, a record of the acts of
the Hebrew kings; a record of the variations of temperature during a
certain time; a family record.
(v. t.) An official contemporaneous writing by which the acts of
some public body, or public officer, are recorded; as, a record of city
ordinances; the records of the receiver of taxes.
(v. t.) An authentic official copy of a document which has been
entered in a book, or deposited in the keeping of some officer
designated by law.
(v. t.) An official contemporaneous memorandum stating the
proceedings of a court of justice; a judicial record.
(v. t.) The various legal papers used in a case, together with
memoranda of the proceedings of the court; as, it is not permissible to
allege facts not in the record.
(v. t.) Testimony; witness; attestation.
(v. t.) That which serves to perpetuate a knowledge of acts or
events; a monument; a memorial.
(v. t.) That which has been, or might be, recorded; the known
facts in the course, progress, or duration of anything, as in the life
of a public man; as, a politician with a good or a bad record.
(v. t.) That which has been publicly achieved in any kind of
competitive sport as recorded in some authoritative manner, as the time
made by a winning horse in a race.
