different between record vs mittimus

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

From Latin mittimus (the opening word of such a document), first-person plural of mitt? (“send”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m?t?m?s/

Noun

mittimus (plural mittimuses or mittimi)

1. (law, archaic outside the US) A warrant issued for someone to be taken into custody.
2. A writ for moving records from one court to another.
   • 2013, Mark Morgenstein, Suspect in prisons chief's death may have been freed 4 years early, CNN (March 31, 2013), [1]:

     Next, sometimes the same clerk, but often a second clerk, who may not have been in the courtroom, types up the mittimus, the formal court order that directs corrections offers^[sic] to commit someone to prison, and something could get lost in translation there.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Brande & C to this entry?)

3. A formal dismissal from a situation.

Latin

Verb

mittimus

1. first-person plural present active indicative of mitt?