Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - record

 I. verb  Etymology: Middle English, literally, to recall, from Anglo-French ~er, from Latin ~ari, from re- + cord-, cor heart — more at heart  Date: 14th century  transitive verb  1.  a.  (1) to set down in writing ; furnish written evidence of  (2) to deposit an authentic official copy of ~ a deed  b. to state for or as if for the ~ voted in favor but ~ed certain reservations  c.  (1) to register permanently by mechanical means earthquake shocks ~ed by a seismograph  (2) indicate, read the thermometer ~ed 90°  2. to give evidence of  3. to cause (as sound, visual images, or data) to be registered on something (as a disc or magnetic tape) in reproducible form  intransitive verb to ~ something  • ~able adjective  II. noun  Date: 14th century  1. the state or fact of being ~ed  2. something that ~s: as  a. something that recalls or relates past events  b. an official document that ~s the acts of a public body or officer  c. an authentic official copy of a document deposited with a legally designated officer  d. the official copy of the papers used in a law case  3.  a.  (1) a body of known or ~ed facts about something or someone especially with reference to a particular sphere of activity that often forms a discernible pattern a good academic ~ a liberal voting ~  (2) a collection of related items of information (as in a database) treated as a unit  b.  (1) an attested top performance  (2) an unsurpassed statistic  4. something on which sound or visual images have been ~ed; specifically a disc with a spiral groove carrying ~ed sound for phonograph reproduction  III. adjective  Date: 1884 of, relating to, or being one that is extraordinary among or surpasses others of its kind  IV. noun  Date: 1946 a function of an electronic device that causes it to ~