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Record(law)
record(2)(dictionary)
record(1)(dictionary)
pre-record(dictionary)
TV Record(finance)
record rim(medicine)
RECORD(finance)
Off-the-Record(money)
off-the-record(dictionary)

record(1) (iou)



record noun. ME.
[Old & mod. French = remembrance, from recorder: see RECORD verb. In sense 5b from next.]
I.
Law.
a. The fact or condition of being or having been written down as evidence of a legal matter, spec. the proceedings or verdict of a court of law; evidence recorded in this way. ME.
b. An authentic or official report entered on the rolls of the proceedings, including the judgement, in any case coming before a court of record. LME.
c. A record of the material points, pleadings, and issue between defendant and plaintiff, constituting a case to be decided by a court of law; a case so constituted. E17.
d. Scots Law. A written statement by all parties to a lawsuit containing the pleadings which are the full and final statement of the averments and pleas on which the case rests. E19.
Attestation or testimony of a fact; witness; evidence; proof. ME-M17.
b. A witness. E16-M18.
a. The fact or condition of being preserved (esp. in writing) as knowledge or information; knowledge or information preserved in writing etc. LME.
H. Kissinger All the principals were on record with some statement protecting themselves against all possible developments.
b. An account of the past; a piece of evidence about the past; spec. a written or otherwise permanently recorded account of a fact or event. Also, a document, monument, etc., on which such an account is recorded; transf. a person or thing giving evidence, reminding, or preserving the memory, of a fact or event; a memorial; in pl., a collection of such accounts, documents, etc. L16.
J. Conrad I started an irregular, fragmentary record of my days. L. Hellman They..had no record of her ever having been there.
c. A performance or occurrence remarkable among or excelling others of the same kind; spec. the best recorded achievement in a competitive sport. L19.
attrib.: P. Abrahams A small hut..had been built in record time.
The most important facts in the life or career of a (public) person; the sum of a person's acts or achievements. M19.
b. An account of a person's behaviour in a particular sphere; spec. (more fully criminal record) a list of a person's criminal convictions or prison sentences, a history of being convicted for crime. E20.
D. Hammett He's an ex-con..with a record as long as your arm. Anne Stevenson Fully preoccupied with establishing a successful academic record.
a. A thin disc (formerly a cylinder), latterly of plastic, carrying recorded sound in an irregular spiral groove from which it is reproduced by rotation on a turntable with a vibrating stylus in the groove (also gramophone record, (US) phonograph record). L19.
P. Auster He put on a recordHaydn's opera..and listened to it. Face These bands don't realise they can't make records as good as the Stones.
b. The action of recording on magnetic tape etc. Usu. attrib. M20.
Computing. A number of related items of information which are handled as a unit. M20.
II. Memory; recollection. ME-E17.
Reputation; repute. Long obsolete exc. Scot. LME.
Accord; reconcilement. rare. LME-M16.
= RECORDER noun2. rare. L15-L16.
Phrases: beat the record, break the record surpass all previous performances of a particular action. be on record have stated one's opinion openly or officially, be recorded (as believing, saying, etc.). break the record: see beat the record above. court of record a court whose proceedings are permanently recorded, and which can fine or imprison. criminal record: see sense 4b above. for the record so that the true facts are recorded or known. go on record, put oneself on record state one's opinion openly or officially, esp. so that it is recorded. gramophone record: see sense 5a above. have a record be known as a criminal. have the power of record, have record (Law, now Hist.) be entitled to have one's judicial acts and decisions enrolled. matter of record something established as a fact by being (officially) recorded. off the record unofficially, confidentially; as an unattributable statement. on record (a) officially recorded; publicly known; (b) recorded on a gramophone record. phonograph record: see sense 5a above. Public Record Office: see PUBLIC adjective & noun. put oneself on record: see go on record above. put the record straight, set the record straight achieve a correct account of the facts; correct a misapprehension. travel out of the record (a) Law consider a matter not contained in a legal record; (b) transf. (arch.) go off the subject.
Comb.: record album an album of music on record; record changer a device on a record-player which automatically replaces a record which has ended; record club a society whose members can buy selected gramophone records on special terms; record hop arch. slang a dance at which the music is provided by records; record linkage the process or practice of combining items of information or sets of data relating to the same subject; record-player an electrically operated apparatus for reproducing sound from a record, esp. through the vibrations of a stylus travelling in the irregular spiral groove of a record rotating on a turntable; record sleeve a stiff (esp. cardboard) envelope for covering a gramophone record, often with details of what is recorded on it; record token a voucher exchangeable for gramophone records costing up to a specified amount of money; record type a typeface including special sorts reproducing the contractions or particular letter forms found in medieval manuscripts.
recordless adjective having no record or records; unrecorded: M19.