<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>to set down in writing or the like, as for the purpose of preserving evidence.</li><li>to cause to be set down or registered: to record one's vote.</li><li>to state or indicate: He recorded his protest, but it was disregarded.</li><li>to serve to relate or to tell of: The document records that the battle took place six years earlier.</li><li>to set down or register in some permanent form, as on a seismograph.</li><li>to set down, register, or fix by characteristic marks, incisions, magnetism, etc., for the purpose of reproduction by a phonograph or magnetic reproducer.</li><li>to make a recording of: The orchestra recorded the 6th Symphony.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>an act of recording.</li><li>the state of being recorded, as in writing.</li><li>an account in writing or the like preserving the memory or knowledge of facts or events.</li><li>information or knowledge preserved in writing or the like.</li><li>a report, list, or aggregate of actions or achievements.</li><li>a legally documented history of criminal activity.</li><li>something serving as a remembrance; memorial.</li><li>the tracing, marking, or the like, made by a recording instrument.</li><li>something on which sound or images have been recorded for subsequent reproduction.</li><li>the highest or best rate, amount, etc., ever attained, especially in sports.</li><li>the standing of a team or individual with respect to contests won, lost, and tied.</li><li>an official writing intended to be preserved.</li><li>a group of related fields, or a single field, treated as a unit and comprising part of a file or data set.</li><li>the commitment to writing, as authentic evidence, of something having legal importance.</li><li>an authentic or official written report of proceedings of a court of justice.</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>making or affording a record.</li><li>surpassing or superior to all others.</li></ul>