Document vs. Record

Documentnoun

An original or official paper used as the basis, proof, or support of anything else, including any writing, book, or other instrument conveying information pertinent to such proof or support.

Documentnoun

Any material substance on which the information is represented by writing.

Documentnoun

(computing) A file that contains text.

Documentnoun

(obsolete) That which is taught or authoritatively set forth; precept; instruction; dogma.

Documentnoun

(obsolete) An example for instruction or warning.

Documentverb

To record in documents.

Documentverb

To furnish with documents or papers necessary to establish facts or give information.

Documentnoun

That which is taught or authoritatively set forth; precept; instruction; dogma.

Documentnoun

An example for instruction or warning.

Documentnoun

An original or official paper relied upon as the basis, proof, or support of anything else; - in its most extended sense, including any writing, book, or other instrument conveying information in the case; any material substance on which the thoughts of men are represented by any species of conventional mark or symbol.

Documentverb

To teach; to school.

Documentverb

To furnish with documents or papers necessary to establish facts or give information; as, a a ship should be documented according to the directions of law.

Documentnoun

writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature)

Documentnoun

anything serving as a representation of a person's thinking by means of symbolic marks

Documentnoun

a written account of ownership or obligation

Documentnoun

(computer science) a computer file that contains text (and possibly formatting instructions) using 7-bit ASCII characters

Documentverb

record in detail;

Documentverb

support or supply with references;

Documentnoun

a piece of written, printed, or electronic matter that provides information or evidence or that serves as an official record.

Documentverb

record (something) in written, photographic, or other form

Documentverb

support or accompany with documentation

Document

A document is a written, drawn, presented, or memorialized representation of thought, often the manifestation of non-fictional, as well as fictional, content. The word originates from the Latin Documentum, which denotes a or : the verb doceō denotes .

Recordverb

To recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate.

Recordverb

To repeat; to recite; to sing or play.

Recordverb

To preserve the memory of, by committing to writing, to printing, to inscription, or the like; to make note of; to write or enter in a book or on parchment, for the purpose of preserving authentic evidence of; to register; to enroll; as, to record the proceedings of a court; to record historical events.

Recordverb

To reflect; to ponder.

Recordverb

To sing or repeat a tune.

Recordnoun

A writing by which some act or event, or a number of acts or events, is recorded; a register; as, a record of the acts of the Hebrew kings; a record of the variations of temperature during a certain time; a family record.

Recordnoun

An official contemporaneous writing by which the acts of some public body, or public officer, are recorded; as, a record of city ordinances; the records of the receiver of taxes.

Recordnoun

Testimony; witness; attestation.

Recordnoun

That which serves to perpetuate a knowledge of acts or events; a monument; a memorial.

Recordnoun

That which has been, or might be, recorded; the known facts in the course, progress, or duration of anything, as in the life of a public man; as, a politician with a good or a bad record.

Recordnoun

That which has been publicly achieved in any kind of competitive sport as recorded in some authoritative manner, as the time made by a winning horse in a race.

Recordnoun

anything (such as a document or a phonograph record or a photograph) providing permanent evidence of or information about past events;

Recordnoun

the number of wins versus losses and ties a team has had;

Recordnoun

an extreme attainment; the best (or worst) performance ever attested (as in a sport);

Recordnoun

sound recording consisting of a disc with continuous grooves; formerly used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracked in the grooves

Recordnoun

the sum of recognized accomplishments;

Recordnoun

a list of crimes for which an accused person has been previously convicted;

Recordnoun

a compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone;

Recordnoun

a document that can serve as legal evidence of a transaction;

Recordverb

make a record of; set down in permanent form

Recordverb

register electronically;

Recordverb

indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments;

Recordverb

be aware of;

Recordverb

be or provide a memorial to a person or an event;