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record [n]

1)	anything (such as a document or a phonograph record or a photograph) providing permanent evidence of or information about past events; "the film provided a valuable record of stage techniques"

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2)	the number of wins versus losses and ties a team has had; "at 9-0 they have the best record in their league"

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number

3)	an extreme attainment; the best (or worst) performance ever attested (as in a sport); "he tied the Olympic record"; "coffee production last year broke all previous records"; "Chicago set the homicide record"

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attainment track_record world_record

4)	sound recording consisting of a disc with continuous grooves; formerly used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracked in the grooves

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disc disk phonograph_record phonograph_recording platter

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audio_recording acetate_disk l-p

5)	the sum of recognized accomplishments; "the lawyer has a good record"; "the track record shows that he will be a good president"

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track_record

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accomplishment

6)	a list of crimes for which an accused person has been previously convicted; "he ruled that the criminal record of the defendant could not be disclosed to the court"; "the prostitute had a record a mile long"

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criminal_record

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list

7)	a compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone; "Al Smith used to say, `Let's look at the record'"; "his name is in all the recordbooks"

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book record_book

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fact logbook won-lost_record card

8)	a document that can serve as legal evidence of a transaction; "they could find no record of the purchase"

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record [v]

1)	make a record of; set down in permanent form

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enter put_down

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preserve recording entry record-keeper recorder chalk_up clock_in accession post ring_up manifest inscribe chronicle file document log clock_up film tape photograph mark notch keep film register book

2)	register electronically; "They recorded her singing"

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tape

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enter tape mag_tape disc recorder recording delete write tape_record prerecord cut cut

3)	indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments; "The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero"; "The gauge read `empty'"

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read register show

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indicate adjustment indication meter_reading say show strike

4)	be aware of; "Did you register any change when I pressed the button?"

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5)	be or provide a memorial to a person or an event; "This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps"; "We memorialized the Dead"

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commemorate immortalise immortalize memorialise memorialize

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: (http://www.foldoc.org/, Editor Denis Howe)

An ordered set of fields, usually stored contiguously. The term is used with similar meaning in several different contexts. In a file, a "record" probably has some fixed length, in contrast to a "line" which may have any length and is terminated by some End Of Line sequence). A database record is also called a "row". In a spreadsheet it is always called a "row". Some programming languages use the term to mean a type composed of fields of several other types (C calls this a "struct").

In all these cases, a record represents an entity with certain field values.

Fields may be of a fixed width (bits or characters) or they may be separated by a delimiter character, often comma (CSV) or HT (TSV).

In a database the list of values of a given field from all records is called a column.

(2002-03-22)

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