Main entry: track record, record
Definition: the sum of recognized accomplishments
Usage: the lawyer has a good record; the track record shows that he will be a good president
Main entry: record
Definition: an extreme attainment; the best (or worst) performance ever attested (as in a sport)
Usage: he tied the Olympic record; coffee production last year broke all previous records; Chicago set the homicide record
Main entry: phonograph record, phonograph recording, platter, record, disc, disk
Definition: sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove
Main entry: criminal record, record
Definition: a list of crimes for which an accused person has been previously convicted
Usage: he ruled that the criminal record of the defendant could not be disclosed to the court; the prostitute had a record a mile long
Main entry: book, record, record book
Definition: a compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone
Usage: Al Smith used to say, `Let's look at the record'; his name is in all the record books
Main entry: record
Definition: anything (such as a document or a phonograph record or a photograph) providing permanent evidence of or information about past events
Usage: the film provided a valuable record of stage techniques
Main entry: record
Definition: a document that can serve as legal evidence of a transaction
Usage: they could find no record of the purchase
Main entry: record
Definition: the number of wins versus losses and ties a team has had
Usage: at 9-0 they have the best record in their league
Main entry: record, memorialise, memorialize, commemorate, immortalise, immortalize
Definition: be or provide a memorial to a person or an event
Usage: This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps; We memorialized the Dead
Main entry: show, record, register, read
Definition: indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments
Usage: The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero; The gauge read `empty'
Definition: register electronically
Usage: They recorded her singing
Main entry: record, put down, enter
Definition: make a record of; set down in permanent form
Definition: be aware of
Usage: Did you register any change when I pressed the button?