## Meanings
1. To store sound, video, or information so it can be used later.
2. A written or stored account of facts or past events.
3. The known facts about a person's or team's past performance.
4. An official list of crimes someone has been convicted of.

## Examples
- They recorded our singing on a phone.
- They could find no record of the purchase.
- At 9-0 they have the best record in their league.
- The judge ruled that the defendant's criminal record could not be disclosed.

## Antonyms
- erase

## Derived Forms
- audiorecord
- microrecord
- misrecord
- off-the-record
- over-record
- palaeorecord
- paleorecord
- phonorecord
- pre-record
- prerecord
- re-record
- record-breaker

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *ḱerd-
- Root: recorden
- Root: recorder
- Root: recordor

## Etymology
From Middle English recorden (“to repeat, to report”), borrowed from Old French recorder (“to get by heart”), from Latin recordārī (“remember, call to mind”), from re- (“back, again”) + cor (“heart; mind”).

## AI Etymology
Record comes from Middle English recorden (“to repeat, to report”), borrowed from Old French recorder (“to get by heart”), from Latin recordārī (“remember, call to mind”), from re- (“back, again”) + cor (“heart; mind”). Modern senses include to store sound, video, or information so it can be used later. and a written or stored account of facts or past events.. The wider word family includes derivatives such as audiorecord, microrecord, misrecord, off-the-record, over-record, and palaeorecord.

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