record

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
record/ˈrekɔːd/

▶noun

• 1 a piece of evidence about the past, especially a written or other permanent account.

  ■ Law an official report of the proceedings and judgement in a court.

• 2 a person or thing's previous conduct or performance: the team kept their unbeaten home record.

  ■ a criminal record.

• 3 the best performance or most remarkable event of its kind.

• 4 a thin plastic disc carrying recorded sound in grooves on each surface, for reproduction by a record player.

  ■ a piece or collection of music reproduced on such a disc or on another medium.

• 5 Computing a number of related items of information handled as a unit.

▶verb

• 1 make a record of.

  ■ state or express officially.

• 2 convert (sound, a broadcast, etc.) into permanent form for later reproduction or broadcast.

– phrases
for the record so that the true facts are recorded or known.
on record officially measured and noted.
on (or off) the record made (or not made) as an official or attributable statement.
put (or set) the record straight correct a misapprehension.

– derivatives
recordable adjective,
recording noun.

– origin ME: from OFr. record ‘remembrance’, from recorder ‘bring to remembrance’, from L. recordari ‘remember’, based on cor, cord- ‘heart’.