What is the meaning of record?

noun

• Anything (such as a document or a phonograph record or a photograph) providing permanent evidence of or information about past events.
  • usage: "the film provided a valuable record of stage techniques"
• Sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove.
  • synonyms: phonograph record, phonograph recording, disk, disc, platter
• The number of wins versus losses and ties a team has had.
  • usage: "at 9-0 they have the best record in their league"
• The sum of recognized accomplishments.
  • usage: "the lawyer has a good record"; "the track record shows that he will be a good president"
  • synonyms: track record
• A compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone.
  • usage: "Al Smith used to say, `Let's look at the record'"; "his name is in all the record books"
  • synonyms: record book, book
• An extreme attainment; the best (or worst) performance ever attested (as in a sport. )
  • usage: "he tied the Olympic record"; "coffee production last year broke all previous records"; "Chicago set the homicide record"
• A document that can serve as legal evidence of a transaction.
  • usage: "they could find no record of the purchase"
• A list of crimes for which an accused person has been previously convicted.
  • usage: "he ruled that the criminal record of the defendant could not be disclosed to the court"; "the prostitute had a record a mile long"
  • synonyms: criminal record

verb

• Make a record of; set down in permanent form.
  • synonyms: enter, put down
• Register electronically.
  • usage: "They recorded her singing"
  • synonyms: tape
• Indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments.
  • usage: "The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero"; "The gauge read `empty'"
  • synonyms: read, register, show
• Be aware of.
  • usage: "Did you register any change when I pressed the button"
  • synonyms: register
• Be or provide a memorial to a person or an event.
  • usage: "This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps"; "We memorialized the Dead"
  • synonyms: commemorate, memorialize, memorialise, immortalize, immortalise