RECORDINGS
Noun
recordings
plural of recording
Source: Wiktionary
RECORDING
Re*cord"ing, a.
Definition: Keeping a record or a register; as, a recording secretary; --
applied to numerous instruments with an automatic appliance which
makes a record of their action; as, a recording gauge or telegraph.
RECORD
Re*cord" (r*krd"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Recorded; p. pr. & vb. n.
Recording.] Etym: [OE. recorden to repeat, remind, F. recorder, fr.
L. recordari to remember; pref. re- re- + cor, cordis, the heart or
mind. See Cordial, Heart.]
1. To recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate. [Obs.]
"I it you record." Chaucer.
2. To repeat; to recite; to sing or play. [Obs.]
They longed to see the day, to hear the lark Record her hymns, and
chant her carols blest. Fairfax.
3. To preserve the memory of, by committing to writing, to printing,
to inscription, or the like; to make note of; to write or enter in a
book or on parchment, for the purpose of preserving authentic
evidence of; to register; to enroll; as, to record the proceedings of
a court; to record historical events.
Those things that are recorded of him . . . are written in the
chronicles of the kings. 1 Esd. i. 42.
To record a deed, mortgage, lease, etc., to have a copy of the same
entered in the records of the office designated by law, for the
information of the public.
Re*cord", v. i.
1. To reflect; to ponder. [Obs.]
Praying all the way, and recording upon the words which he before had
read. Fuller.
2. To sing or repeat a tune. [Obs.] Shak.
Whether the birds or she recorded best. W. Browne.
Rec"ord (rk"rd), n. Etym: [OF. recort, record, remembrance,
attestation, record. See Record, v. t.]
1. A writing by which same act or event, or a number of acts or
events, is recorded; a register; as, a record of the acts of the
Hebrew kings; a record of the variations of temperature during a
certain time; a family record.
2. Especially:
(a) An official contemporaneous writing by which the acts of some
public body, or public officer, are recorded; as, a record of city
ordinances; the records of the receiver of taxes.
(b) An authentic official copy of a document which has been entered
in a book, or deposited in the keeping of some officer designated by
law.
(c) An official contemporaneous memorandum stating the proceedings of
a court of justice; a judicial record.
(d) The various legal papers used in a case, together with memoranda
of the proceedings of the court; as, it is not permissible to allege
facts not in the record.
3. Testimony; witness; attestation.
John bare record, saying. John i. 32
.
4. That which serves to perpetuate a knowledge of acts or events; a
monument; a memorial.
5. That which has been, or might be, recorded; the known facts in the
course, progress, or duration of anything, as in the life of a public
man; as, a politician with a good or a bad record.
6. That which has been publicly achieved in any kind of competitive
sport as recorded in some authoritative manner, as the time made by a
winning horse in a race. Court of record (pron. rin Eng.), a court
whose acts and judicial proceedings are written on parchment or in
books for a perpetual memorial.
– Debt of record, a debt which appears to be due by the evidence of
a court of record, as upon a judgment or a cognizance.
– Trial by record, a trial which is had when a matter of record is
pleaded, and the opposite party pleads that there is no such record.
In this case the trial is by inspection of the record itself, no
other evidence being admissible. Blackstone.
– To beat, or break, the record (Sporting), to surpass any
performance of like kind as authoritatively recorded; as, to break
the record in a walking match.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition