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recorded adjective [ rɪˈkɔːdɪd ]

• set down in writing or some other permanent form for later reference.
• "the first recorded use of the term was in 1865"
• (of sound or a performance) converted into a permanent form for subsequent reproduction or broadcast.
• "the recorded sound is extremely clear"

record verb

• set down in writing or some other permanent form for later reference.
• "they were asked to keep a diary and record everything they ate or drank"
Similar: write down, set down, put in writing, put down, take down, note, make a note of, jot down, put down on paper, commit to paper, document, put on record, post, enter, minute, register, chronicle, file, put on file, chart, docket, log, inscribe, transcribe, list, catalogue, make an inventory of, diarize,
• convert (sound or a performance) into a permanent form for subsequent reproduction or broadcast.
• "they were recording a guitar recital"
Similar: make a record/recording of, tape, tape-record, video-record, videotape, video, audiotape, telerecord, make, produce, cut, put on disc/tape, lay down, put on wax,
Origin: Middle English: from Old French record ‘remembrance’, from recorder ‘bring to remembrance’, from Latin recordari ‘remember’, based on cor, cord- ‘heart’. The noun was earliest used in law to denote the fact of being written down as evidence. The verb originally meant ‘narrate orally or in writing’, also ‘repeat so as to commit to memory’.


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