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Record can be a verb or a noun.
record used as a verb:
- To make a record of information.
"I wanted to record every detail of what happened, for the benefit of future generations." - Specifically, to make an audio or video recording of.
"Within a week they had recorded both the song and the video for it." - To give legal status to by making an official public record.
"When the deed was recorded, we officially owned the house." - To fix in a medium, usually in a tangible medium.
- To make an audio, video, or multimedia recording.
- To repeat; to practice.
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
record used as a noun:
- Information put into a temporary or permanent physical medium.
"The person had a record of the event in her memory in her brain." - Any instance of a physical medium on which information was put for the purpose of preserving it and making it available for future reference.
"We have no record of you making this payment to us." - A vinyl disc on which sound is recorded and may be replayed on a phonograph.
"I still like records better than CDs." - A set of data relating to a single individual or item.
- The most extreme known value of some achievement, particularly in competitive events.
"The heat and humidity were both new records."
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is record?
- Verb usage: I wanted to record every detail of what happened, for the benefit of future generations.
- Verb usage: Within a week they had recorded both the song and the video for it.
- Verb usage: When the deed was recorded, we officially owned the house.
- Noun usage: The person had a record of the event in her memory in her brain.
- Noun usage: The tourist's photographs and the tape of the police call provide a record of the crime.
- Noun usage: We have no record of you making this payment to us.
- Noun usage: I still like records better than CDs.
- Noun usage: The heat and humidity were both new records.
- Noun usage: The team set a new record for most points scored in a quarter.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of record are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of record, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
