Recording

recording
    n 1: a signal that encodes something (e.g., picture or sound)
         that has been recorded
    2: the act of making a record (especially an audio record); "she
       watched the recording from a sound-proof booth" [syn:
       {recording}, {transcription}]
    3: a storage device on which information (sounds or images) have
       been recorded
    

Record \Re*cord"\ (r?*k?rd"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Recorded}; p.
   pr. & vb. n. {Recording}.] [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.
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   2. To repeat; to recite; to sing or play. [Obs.]
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            They longed to see the day, to hear the lark
            Record her hymns, and chant her carols blest.
                                                  --Fairfax.
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   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.
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            Those things that are recorded of him . . . are
            written in the chronicles of the kings. --1 Esd. i.
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   {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.
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Recording \Re*cord"ing\, a.
   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.
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75 Moby Thesaurus words for "recording":
      account, annals, apograph, booking, carbon, carbon copy, cartridge,
      cassette, catalog, cataloging, chronicle, chronicling,
      correspondence, disc, documentation, electrical transcription,
      enlistment, enrollment, entering, entry, fiche, history,
      impanelment, indexing, inscribing, inscription, insertion,
      inventory, inventorying, letters, list, listing, logging, manifold,
      matriculation, memorial, microcopy, microfiche, microform,
      phonograph record, pipe roll, posting, record, record keeping,
      recordation, recordative, register, registration, registrational,
      registry, relic, remains, roll, rolls, roster, rota, rubbing,
      scroll, self-recording, table, tabulation, tape, tape cartridge,
      tape cassette, tape recording, tenor, token, trace, tracing,
      transcript, transcription, transfer, vestige, wax,
      wire recording