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English Dictionary: recording by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
recording
n
  1. a signal that encodes something (e.g., picture or sound) that has been recorded
  2. the act of making a record (especially an audio record); "she watched the recording from a sound-proof booth"
    Synonym(s): recording, transcription
  3. a storage device on which information (sounds or images) have been recorded
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Record \Re*cord"\ (r?*k?rd"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Recorded}; p.
      pr. & vb. n. {Recording}.] [OE. recorden to repeat, remind,
      F. recorder, fr. L. recordari to remember; pref. re- re- +
      cor, cordis, the heart or mind. See {Cordial}, {Heart}.]
      1. To recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate.
            [Obs.] [bd]I it you record.[b8] --Chaucer.
  
      2. To repeat; to recite; to sing or play. [Obs.]
  
                     They longed to see the day, to hear the lark Record
                     her hymns, and chant her carols blest. --Fairfax.
  
      3. 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.
  
                     Those things that are recorded of him . . . are
                     written in the chronicles of the kings. --1 Esd. i.
                                                                              42.
  
      {To record a deed}, {mortgage}, {lease}, etc., to have a copy
            of the same entered in the records of the office
            designated by law, for the information of the public.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Recording \Re*cord"ing\, a.
      Keeping a record or a register; as, a recording secretary; --
      applied to numerous instruments with an automatic appliance
      which makes a record of their action; as, a recording gauge
      or telegraph.
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