Classes
Intellectual Faculties
Means of Communicating Ideas
Natural Means
Record
Record
Nouns
trace, vestige, relic, remains
scar, cicatrix
footstep, footmark, footprint
pug
track mark, wake, trail, scent, piste. monument, hatchment, slab, tablet, trophy, achievement
obelisk, pillar, column, monolith
memorial
memento etc. (memory) Memory
testimonial, medal
commemoration etc. (celebration) Celebration . record, note, minute
register, registry
roll etc. (list) List
cartulary, diptych, Domesday book
entry, memorandum, indorsement, inscription, copy, duplicate, docket
notch etc. (mark) Indication
muniment, deed etc. (security) Security
document
deposition
affidavit
certificate etc. (evidence) Evidence [On one side.] . notebook, memorandum book, memo book, pocketbook, commonplace book
portfolio
pigeonholes, excerpta, jottings, dottings. gazette, gazetteer
newspaper, daily, magazine
almanac, almanack
calendar, ephemeris, diary, log, journal, daybook, ledger
cashbook, petty cashbook
professional journal, scientific literature, the literature, primary literature, secondary literature, article, review article. archive, scroll, state paper, return, blue book
statistics etc. List
Acts of, Transactions of, Proceedings of
Hansard's Debates
chronicle, annals, legend
history, biography etc. Description
Congressional Records. registration
registry
enrollment, inrollment
tabulation
entry, booking
signature etc. (identification) Indication
recorder etc. Recorder
journalism. [analog recording media] recording, tape recording, videotape. [digital recording media] compact disk
floppy disk, diskette
hard disk, Winchester disk
read-only memory, ROM
write once read mostly memory, WORM.
Verbs
record
put on record, place on record
chronicle, calendar, hand down to posterity
keep up the memory etc. (remember) Memory
commemorate etc. (celebrate) Celebration
report etc. (inform) Information
write, commit to writing, reduce to writing
put in writing, set down in writing, writing in black and white
put down, jot down, take down, write down, note down, set down
note, minute, put on paper
take note, make a note, take minute, take memorandum
make a return. mark etc. (indicate) Indication
sign etc. (attest) Evidence [On one side.] . enter, book
post, post up, insert, make an entry of
mark off, tick off
register, enroll, inscroll
file etc. (store) Store . burn into memory
carve in stone.
Phrases
exegi monumentum aere perennium [Horace]
read their history in a nation's eyes" [Gray]
records that defy the tooth of time" [Young] .