document
noun
• a piece of written, printed, or electronic matter that provides information or evidence or that serves as an official record.
Similar:
official paper,
legal paper,
paper,
form,
certificate,
deed,
charter,
contract,
legal agreement,
record,
report,
instrument,
indenture,
acquittance,
paperwork,
documentation,
treeware,
document
verb
• record (something) in written, photographic, or other form.
• "the photographer spent years documenting the lives of miners"
Similar:
record,
register,
report,
log,
chronicle,
file,
archive,
catalogue,
put on record,
commit to paper,
set down,
take down,
write down,
set down in writing,
set down in black and white,
write about,
detail,
note,
describe,
cite,
instance,
tabulate,
chart,
diarize,
Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French, from Latin documentum ‘lesson, proof’ (in medieval Latin ‘written instruction, official paper’), from docere ‘teach’.
