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record | American Dictionary
record verb [T] (STORE INFORMATION)
record verb [T] (STORE SOUNDS/IMAGES)
record noun (BEST)
record noun (STORED SOUNDS/IMAGES)
record noun (STORED INFORMATION)
record adjective [not gradable] (BEST)
(Definition of record from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
record | Business English
set/hold/break a record Sales this year have broken all records.
have a good/poor/excellent record on sth They have a very poor record on HR issues.
be a matter of (public) record
for the record
used to show that you want something to be written down exactly, or if you want to correct something that someone has said:
Just for the record, my title is Dr. not Ms.
off the record
used to show that what is being said is unofficial and should not be written down or told to other people:
See also
See also
record a loss/gain/profit The firm recorded pre-tax profits of over $10 million.
Overnight the Dow Jones Industrial Average recorded its biggest one-day jump since early February.
(Definition of record from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of record
record
Looking time is recorded, and longer looking at the novel stimulus permits the inference that the infant has discriminated the two emotions.
Only qualitative differences in band (presence and absence) were recorded.
Rigorous comparisons among the various studies are difficult, given the diversity of areas, stimuli, behavioral task and recording paradigms involved.
It is a multi-faceted process in that records will be linked by person, by place and by ordinary (or bishop).
The samples themselves are recorded in an ordinary text file.
Individual ocelots were photographed as many as 17 times during the cumulative 2-y survey period, though many were recorded only once.
Bertillonage was purely a system for linking suspects with their criminal records; it had no forensic application.
After a short pause the two stimuli were given in reversed positions, again 25 choices were recorded and correct choices rewarded.
The insert represents a phase plane plot of the two variables recorded in the figure.
For the validation, complete medical records were requested for each patient from the participating hospitals for the 12-week study period.
There were 1,666 records recovered through the search strategy mentioned above.
The families were recruited from local birth records.
Many doctors who worked in the relevant period must be available for questioning and hospital records have survived.
One problem with his conclusions derives from his use of the surviving records of convictions for indictable offences as a proxy for all crime.
The computer recorded the time that participants took to respond in milliseconds.
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Collocations with record
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Thus, the registers may not be an accurate record of what was actually said in the courtroom.
I said it was an all-time record and it certainly is an all-time record.
I have some statistics that may be interesting when we consider labour relations and our appalling record on strikes.
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