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description
English
Etymology
From Old French description, from Latin d?scr?pti?, noun of action of d?scr?b? (“I describe”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d??sk??p??n/
Noun
description (countable and uncountable, plural descriptions)
- A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species.
- The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
- A set of characteristics by which someone or something can be recognized.
- The zoo had no lions, tigers, or cats of any description.
- (taxonomy) A scientific documentation of a taxon for the purpose of introducing it to science.
- The type description of the fungus was written by a botanist.
- (linguistics) The act or practice of recording and describing actual language usage in a given speech community, as opposed to prescription, i.e. laying down norms of language usage.
- (linguistics) A descriptive linguistic survey.
Synonyms
- (characteristics): sort, kind, type, variety
Derived terms
Related terms
- describe
- descriptive
Translations
See also
- prescription
- descriptivism
Further reading
- description in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- description in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
See also
- synopsis
- interpretation
Anagrams
- discerption, predictions
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin d?scripti?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?s.k?ip.sj??/
- Homophone: descriptions
Noun
description f (plural descriptions)
- description
Related terms
- décrire
- descriptif
Further reading
- “description” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Old French
Etymology
From Latin d?scripti?.
Noun
description f (oblique plural descriptions, nominative singular description, nominative plural descriptions)
- description
Related terms
- descrivre
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record
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English, borrowed from Old French record, from recorder. See record (verb).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???k??d/
- (General American) enPR: r?k??rd, IPA(key): /???k?d/
- Rhymes: -?k??(?)d, -?k?(?)d
- Hyphenation: rec?ord
Noun
record (plural records)
- An item of information put into a temporary or permanent physical medium.
- Any instance of a physical medium on which information was put for the purpose of preserving it and making it available for future reference.
- Synonym: log
- Ellipsis of phonograph record: a disc, usually made from vinyl, on which sound is recorded and may be replayed on a phonograph.
- Synonyms: disc, phonograph record, vinyl
- (computing) A set of data relating to a single individual or item.
- The most extreme known value of some variable, particularly that of an achievement in competitive events.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- record book
- record-breaking
Related terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English recorden (“to repeat, to report”), borrowed from Old French recorder (“to get by heart”), from Latin record?r?, present active infinitive of recordor (“remember, call to mind”), from re- (“back, again”) + cor (“heart; mind”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???k??d/
- (General American) enPR: r?-kôrd?, r?-kôrd?, IPA(key): /???k??d/, /?i?k??d/
- Rhymes: -??(?)d
- Hyphenation: re?cord
Verb
record (third-person singular simple present records, present participle recording, simple past and past participle recorded)
- (transitive) To make a record of information.
- I wanted to record every detail of what happened, for the benefit of future generations.
- (transitive) To make an audio or video recording of.
- Within a week they had recorded both the song and the video for it.
- (transitive, law) To give legal status to by making an official public record.
- When the deed was recorded, we officially owned the house.
- (intransitive) To fix in a medium, usually in a tangible medium.
- (intransitive) To make an audio, video, or multimedia recording.
- (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To repeat; to practice.
- (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To sing or repeat a tune.
- 1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 741-742,[4]
- Come Berecynthia, let vs in likewise,
- And heare the Nightingale record hir notes.
- 1600, Edward Fairfax (translator), Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem by Torquato Tasso, London: I. Iaggard and M. Lownes, Book 2, p. 39,[5]
- They long’d to see the day, to heare the larke
- Record her hymnes and chant her carols blest,
- c. 1608, William Shakespeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Act IV, Prologue,[6]
- […] to the lute
- She sung, and made the night-bird mute,
- That still records with moan;
- 1616, William Browne, Britannia’s Pastorals, London: John Haviland, 1625, Book 2, Song 4, p. 129,[7]
- […] the Nymph did earnestly contest
- Whether the Birds or she recorded best […]
- 1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 741-742,[4]
- (obsolete) To reflect; to ponder.
- 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-History of Britain from the Birth of Jesus Christ until the Year M.DC.XLVIII, London: John Williams, Book 5, Section 3, page 204,[8]
- […] he was […] carried to the Scaffold on the Tower-hill […] , himself praying all the way, and recording upon the words which he before had read.
- 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-History of Britain from the Birth of Jesus Christ until the Year M.DC.XLVIII, London: John Williams, Book 5, Section 3, page 204,[8]
Derived terms
Antonyms
- (make a record of information): erase
- (make an audio or video recording of): erase
Translations
Anagrams
- Corder
Catalan
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -??t
Noun
record m (plural records)
- memory, recollection of events
- souvenir
See also
- rècord
Dutch
Pronunciation
Noun
record n (plural records, diminutive recordje n)
- record
Descendants
- ? Indonesian: rekor
French
Etymology
From English record.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.k??/
Noun
record m (plural records)
- record (most extreme known value of some achievement)
- Le record du saut en hauteur a été battu par Javier Sotomayor en 1993.
Further reading
- “record” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- corder
Italian
Etymology
From English record.
Noun
record m (invariable)
- record (sporting achievement; computer data element)
Further reading
- record in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Portuguese
Noun
record m (plural records)
- Alternative form of recorde
Adjective
record (invariable, comparable)
- Alternative form of recorde
Romanian
Etymology
From French record.
Noun
record n (plural recorduri)
- record (achievement)
Declension
Spanish
Noun
record m (plural records)
- Misspelling of récord.
- record
Welsh
Etymology
From English record.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?r?k?rd/
Noun
record f (plural recordiau, not mutable)
- record
Derived terms
- record byd (“world record”)
- recordio (“to record”)
- recordiad (“recording”)
Further reading
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “record”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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