record

Roget category 551

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.10. Means of communicating ideas
›› 4.10.1. Natural means

#551. Record

noun

trace, vestige, relic, remains — scar, cicatrix — footstep, footmark^†, footprint — pug — track mark, wake, trail, scent, piste^†.
monument, hatchment^†, slab, tablet, trophy, achievement — obelisk, pillar, column, monolith — memorial — memento etc. (memory) 505 — testimonial, medal — commemoration etc. (celebration) 883.
record, note, minute — register, registry — roll etc. (list) 86 — cartulary, diptych, Domesday book — catalogue raisonne [Fr.] — entry, memorandum, indorsement^†, inscription, copy, duplicate, docket — notch etc. (mark) 550 — muniment^†, deed etc. (security) 771 — document — deposition, proces verbal [Fr.] — affidavit — certificate etc. (evidence) 467.
notebook, memorandum book, memo book, pocketbook, commonplace book — portfolio — pigeonholes, excerpta^†, adversaria [Lat.], jottings, dottings^†.
gazette, gazetteer — newspaper, daily, magazine — almanac, almanack^† — calendar, ephemeris, diary, log, journal, daybook, ledger — cashbook^†, petty cashbook^† — professional journal, scientific literature, the literature, primary literature, secondary literature, article, review article.
archive, scroll, state paper, return, blue book — statistics etc. 86 — compte rendu [Fr.] — Acts of, Transactions of, Proceedings of — Hansard's Debates — chronicle, annals, legend — history, biography etc. 594 — Congressional Records.
registration — registry — enrollment, inrollment^† — tabulation — entry, booking — signature etc. (identification) 550 — recorder etc. 553 — journalism.
[analog recording media] recording, tape recording, videotape.
[digital recording media] compact disk — floppy disk, diskette — hard disk, Winchester disk — read-only memory, ROM — write once read mostly memory, WORM.

verb

record — put on record, place on record — chronicle, calendar, hand down to posterity — keep up the memory etc. (remember) 505 — commemorate etc. (celebrate) 883 — report etc. (inform) 527 — write, commit to writing, reduce to writing — put in writing, set down in writing, writing in black and white — put down, jot down, take down, write down, note down, set down — note, minute, put on paper — take note, make a note, take minute, take memorandum — make a return.
mark etc. (indicate) 550 — sign etc. (attest) 467.
enter, book — post, post up, insert, make an entry of — mark off, tick off — register, enroll, inscroll^† — file etc. (store) 636.
burn into memory — carve in stone.

adverb

on record.

phrase

exegi monumentum aere perennium [Horace]; read their history in a nation's eyes" [Gray]; records that defy the tooth of time" [Young].

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