Meaning & use
record
Information kept in permanent form for future reference.
See it in a sentence
The hospital keeps a detailed record of every patient's treatment history.
She broke the school record for the fastest mile ever run.
A note on using this word
The stress shifts for the verb sense, meaning to set something down in permanent form, as in 'to record a conversation.'
Words with a similar meaning
logaccount
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Another way to use it
2. verb
To set down information in writing or another permanent form for later reference.
The clerk recorded every transaction in a separate ledger.
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