Record Meaning
/ˈɹɛk.ɔːd/Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounAn item of information put into a temporary or permanent physical medium.
nounAny instance of a physical medium on which information was put for the purpose of preserving it and making it available for future reference.
Sentence Examples
The chairman would only make her comments off the record.
Please do not touch the record side.
You should keep a record of your expenses.
CEFR Practice Quiz
Scientists use special instruments to carefully ____ the temperature changes every hour.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She broke the world ____ for the hundred meters by a margin of two hundredths of a second.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English recorde, borrowed from Old French record, from recorder. See record.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record."
— 2012 March-April, John T. Jost, “Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 13 Feb 2012, page 162:
"He's the record doctor / Tell him your woes / He'll reach in his bag / And he'll give you a dose"
— 2012, “Record Doctor”, performed by Saint Etienne:
"This chapter examines another data structure, the record (available in Pascal but not in all other high-level languages). Records make it easier to organize and represent information in Pascal, a major reason for the popularity of the Pascal[…]"
— 1989, Elliot B. Koffman, Pascal: Problem Solving and Program Design, Addison-Wesley, →ISBN, page 406:
"The new record type provides another solution. A record is a class-like construct for data classes, a restricted form of class like enums and annotations."
— 2020, Ian F. Darwin, Java Cookbook, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 232:
"A record is a special kind of class that's designed to work well with immutable (readonly) data."
— 2021, Joseph Albahari, C# 9.0 in a Nutshell, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 210:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Scientists use special instruments to carefully ____ the temperature changes every hour.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She broke the world ____ for the hundred meters by a margin of two hundredths of a second.