recording
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WordNet 3.0
Noun (3)
- a signal that encodes something (e.g., picture or sound) that has been recorded
- the act of making a record (especially an audio record)“she watched the recording from a sound-proof booth”Synonyms: transcription
- a storage device on which information (sounds or images) have been recorded
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
Record \Re*cord"\ (r?*k?rd"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Recorded; p. pr. & vb. n. Recording.] [OE. recorden to repeat, remind, F. recorder, fr. L. recordari to remember; pref. re- re- + cor, cordis, the heart or mind. See Cordial, Heart.]
1.To recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate. [Obs.] "I it you record." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
2.To repeat; to recite; to sing or play. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
They longed to see the day, to hear the lark Record her hymns, and chant her carols blest.— Fairfax.[1913 Webster]
3.To preserve the memory of, by committing to writing, to printing, to inscription, or the like; to make note of; to write or enter in a book or on parchment, for the purpose of preserving authentic evidence of; to register; to enroll; as, to record the proceedings of a court; to record historical events. [1913 Webster]
Those things that are recorded of him . . . are written in the chronicles of the kings.— 1 Esd. i. 42.[1913 Webster]
To record a deed, mortgage, lease, etc., to have a copy of the same entered in the records of the office designated by law, for the information of the public. [1913 Webster]
Recording \Re*cord"ing\, a. Keeping a record or a register; as, a recording secretary; -- applied to numerous instruments with an automatic appliance which makes a record of their action; as, a recording gauge or telegraph. [1913 Webster]