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recording |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. 2. To repeat; to recite; to sing or play. [Obs.] They longed to see the day to hear the lark Record her hymns, and chant her carols blest. --Fairfax. 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. Those things that are recorded of him . . . are written in the chronicles of the kings. --1 Esd. i. 42. {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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: recording n 1: something (e.g., picture or sound) that has been recorded 2: the act of making a record (especially an audio record) 3: a storage device on which information (sounds or images) have been recorded
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