different between record vs minute

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)

1. An item of information put into a temporary or permanent physical medium.

2. 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

3. 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

4. (computing) A set of data relating to a single individual or item.
5. 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)

1. (transitive) To make a record of information.

   I wanted to record every detail of what happened, for the benefit of future generations.
2. (transitive) To make an audio or video recording of.

   Within a week they had recorded both the song and the video for it.
3. (transitive, law) To give legal status to by making an official public record.

   When the deed was recorded, we officially owned the house.

4. (intransitive) To fix in a medium, usually in a tangible medium.
5. (intransitive) To make an audio, video, or multimedia recording.
6. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To repeat; to practice.
7. (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 […]

8. (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.

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)

1. memory, recollection of events
2. souvenir

See also

• rècord

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

record n (plural records, diminutive recordje n)

1. record

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: rekor

French

Etymology

From English record.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.k??/

Noun

record m (plural records)

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. Alternative form of recorde

Adjective

record (invariable, comparable)

1. Alternative form of recorde

Romanian

Etymology

From French record.

Noun

record n (plural recorduri)

1. record (achievement)

Declension

Spanish

Noun

record m (plural records)

1. Misspelling of récord.
2. record

Welsh

Etymology

From English record.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?k?rd/

Noun

record f (plural recordiau, not mutable)

1. 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

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English mynute, minute, mynet, from Old French minute, from Medieval Latin min?ta (“60th of an hour; note”). Doublet of menu.

Pronunciation

• enPR: m?n'?t, IPA^(key): /?m?n?t/
• Rhymes: -?n?t

Noun

minute (plural minutes)

1. A unit of time equal to sixty seconds (one-sixtieth of an hour).

2. (informal) A short but unspecified time period.

   Synonyms: instant, jiffy, mo, moment, sec, second, tic

3. A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.

   Synonym: minute of arc

4. (chiefly in the plural, minutes) A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.
   • 2008, Pink Dandelion: The Quakers: A Very Short Introduction, p 52:

     The Clerk or 'recording Clerk' drafts a minute and then, or at a later time, reads it to the Meeting. Subsequent contributions are on the wording of the minute only, until it can be accepted by the Meeting. Once the minute is accepted, the Meeting moves on to the next item on the agenda.

5. A unit of purchase on a telephone or other network, especially a cell phone network, roughly equivalent in gross form to sixty seconds' use of the network.

6. A point in time; a moment.
7. A nautical or a geographic mile.
8. An old coin, a half farthing.
9. (obsolete) A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a whit.
10. (architecture) A fixed part of a module.
11. (slang, US, Canada, dialectal) A while or a long unspecified period of time

    Oh, I ain't heard that song in a minute!

    • 2010, Kenneth Ring, Letters from Palestine, page 18:

      “Man, I haven’t seen you in a minute,” he says, smiling still. “Maybe like two, three years ago?”

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• Tok Pisin: minit

Borrowings

Translations

Verb

minute (third-person singular simple present minutes, present participle minuting, simple past and past participle minuted)

1. (transitive) Of an event, to write in a memo or the minutes of a meeting.
2. To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin min?tus (“small", "petty”), perfect passive participle of minu? (“make smaller”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: m?nyo?ot', IPA^(key): /ma??nju?t/
• (US) enPR: m?n(y)o?ot', m?n(y)o?ot', IPA^(key): /ma??n(j)ut/, /m??n(j)ut/
• Rhymes: -u?t

Adjective

minute (comparative minuter, superlative minutest)

1. Very small.

   Synonyms: infinitesimal, insignificant, minuscule, tiny, trace

   Antonyms: big, enormous, colossal, huge, significant, tremendous, vast

2. Very careful and exact, giving small details.

   Synonyms: exact, exacting, excruciating, precise, scrupulous

Synonyms

See also Thesaurus:tiny and Thesaurus:meticulous.

Translations

Anagrams

• minuet, munite, mutein, mutine, untime

Afrikaans

Noun

minute

1. plural of minuut

Esperanto

Etymology

From minuto +? -e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi?nute/
• Hyphenation: mi?nu?te
• Rhymes: -ute

Adverb

minute

1. Lasting for a very short period; briefly, momentarily

French

Etymology

From Old French minute, borrowed from Latin min?ta. Compare menu, an inherited doublet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.nyt/

Noun

minute f (plural minutes)

1. minute (etymology 1, time unit, all same senses)

Derived terms

• minute de silence
• minute papillon

Descendants

• ? Farefare: miniti
• Haitian Creole: minit
• ? Romanian: minut

Interjection

minute

1. wait a sec!

Verb

minute

1. first-person singular present indicative of minuter
2. third-person singular present indicative of minuter
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of minuter
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of minuter
5. second-person singular imperative of minuter

Further reading

• “minute” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Adjective

minute

1. feminine plural of minuto

Anagrams

• emunti, munite

Latin

Participle

min?te

1. vocative masculine singular of min?tus

References

• minute in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• minute in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• minute in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Middle English

Noun

minute

1. Alternative form of mynute

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin min?ta.

Noun

minute f (oblique plural minutes, nominative singular minute, nominative plural minutes)

1. minute (one sixtieth of an hour)

Coordinate terms

• segont
• eure
• jor
• semaine
• an

Descendants

• Middle French: minute
  • French: minute
    • ? Farefare: miniti
    • Haitian Creole: minit
    • ? Romanian: minut
  • ? Dutch: minuut
    • Afrikaans: minuut
• Norman: minnute
• Walloon: munute
• ? Central Franconian: Menutt, Minutt
• ? German: Minute, Minut f, [Term?] n
  • ? Czech: minuta
• ? Lower Sorbian: minuta
• ? Luxembourgish: Minutt
• ? Middle English: mynute, minute, mynut, mynet, minut
  • English: minute
    • Tok Pisin: minit
  • Scots: meenit

Portuguese

Verb

minute

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of minutar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of minutar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of minutar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of minutar