Antonyms for records
| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : verb ri-kawrd; noun, adjective rek-erd |
| Phonetic Transcription : verb rɪˈkɔrd; noun, adjective ˈrɛk ərd |
Definition of records
Origin :- c.1200, "to repeat, reiterate, recite; rehearse, get by heart," from Old French recorder "tell, relate, repeat, recite, report, make known" (12c.) and directly from Latin recordari "remember, call to mind, think over, be mindful of," from re- "restore" (see re-) + cor (genitive cordis) "heart" (as the metaphoric seat of memory, cf. learn by heart); see heart.
- Meaning "set down in writing" first attested mid-14c.; that of "put sound or pictures on disks, tape, etc." is from 1892. Related: Recorded; recording.
- noun account of event or proceedings
- noun background, experience
- noun achievement
- verb write down; store information
- verb give evidence of
- He kept no records of birthdays and wedding-anniversaries or the hour of death.
- Extract from : « Ancient Man » by Hendrik Willem van Loon
- Carlotta put out the lights and turned in a business-like way to her records.
- Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Far away was the night nurse's desk, with its lamp, its annunciator, its pile of records.
- Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- I'm afraid you'll fall down there and get the records mixed.
- Extract from : « Dust » by Mr. and Mrs. Haldeman-Julius
- What wonder then that one of the records should say of them all, that they saw two angels?
- Extract from : « Miracles of Our Lord » by George MacDonald
- There is necessarily a sameness in the records of these pestilences.
- Extract from : « English Villages » by P. H. Ditchfield
- (With some starvation, the records say,) Our well-fed Independence!
- Extract from : « Farm Ballads » by Will Carleton
- The harp of the minstrel is untruly touched, if his own glory is all that it records.
- Extract from : « Modern Painters Volume I (of V) » by John Ruskin
- Her personality lives for us still in her own books and in the records of her friends.
- Extract from : « Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle » by H. N. Brailsford
- "Dale, I have been looking into the records of this Michael Strange," he said quietly.
- Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 » by Various
Synonyms for records
- accomplishment
- administration
- almanac
- annals
- archive
- archives
- book
- can
- career
- case history
- catalog
- ceiling
- chalk up
- chronicle
- comic book
- conduct
- contain
- copy
- curriculum vitae
- cut
- cut a track
- designate
- diary
- directory
- document
- documentation
- dub
- enroll
- enter
- entry
- enumerate
- evidence
- explain
- file
- history
- indicate
- indite
- inscribe
- inscription
- insert
- jacket
- jot down
- journal
- keep account
- lay down
- legend
- list
- log
- make a recording
- manuscript
- mark
- mark down
- matriculate
- maximum
- memo
- memoir
- memorandum
- memorial
- minutes
- monument
- note
- paper trail
- past behavior
- performance
- point out
- point to
- post
- preserve
- put down
- put in writing
- put on file
- put on paper
- put on tape
- read
- register
- registry
- reign
- remembrance
- report
- say
- script
- scroll
- set down
- show
- story
- studies
- swindle sheet
- tabulate
- take down
- tape
- tape-record
- testimony
- trace
- track record
- transcribe
- transcript
- transcription
- video
- videotape
- wax
- way of life
- witness
- work
- write in
- writing
- written material
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