Driving Definition–adjective | 1. | demanding a high or unreasonable rate of work from subordinates. |
| 2. | vigorously active; energetic: a driving young executive. |
| 3. | having force and violence: a driving storm. |
| 4. | relaying or transmitting power. |
| 5. | used while operating a vehicle: driving gloves. |
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Record Definition–verb (used with object) | 1. | to set down in writing or the like, as for the purpose of preserving evidence. |
| 2. | to cause to be set down or registered: to record one's vote. |
| 3. | to state or indicate: He recorded his protest, but it was disregarded. |
| 4. | to serve to relate or to tell of: The document records that the battle took place six years earlier. |
| 5. | to set down or register in some permanent form, as on a seismograph. |
| 6. | to set down, register, or fix by characteristic marks, incisions, magnetism, etc., for the purpose of reproduction by a phonograph or magnetic reproducer. |
| 7. | to make a recording of: The orchestra recorded the 6th Symphony. |
–verb (used without object) | 8. | to record something; make a record. |
–noun record
| 10. | the state of being recorded, as in writing. |
| 11. | an account in writing or the like preserving the memory or knowledge of facts or events. |
| 12. | information or knowledge preserved in writing or the like. |
| 13. | a report, list,
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or aggregate of actions or achievements: He made a good record in college. The ship has a fine sailing record. |
| 14. | a legally documented history of criminal activity: They discovered that the suspect had a record. |
| 15. | something or someone serving as a remembrance; memorial: Keep this souvenir as a record of your visit. |
| 16. | the tracing, marking, or the like, made by a recording instrument. |
| 17. | something on which sound or images have been recorded for subsequent reproduction, as a grooved disk that is played on a phonograph or an optical disk for recording sound (audiodisk) or images (videodisk). Compare compact disk. |
| 18. | the highest or best rate, amount, etc., ever attained, esp. in sports: to hold the record for home runs; to break the record in the high jump. |
| 19. | Sports. the standing of a team or individual with respect to contests won, lost, and tied. |
| 20. | an official writing intended to be preserved. |
| 21. | Computers. a group of related fields, or a single field, treated as a unit and comprising part of a file or data set, for purposes of input, processing, output, or storage by a computer. |
| 22. | Law. | a. | the commitment to writing, as authentic evidence, of something having legal importance, esp. as evidence of the proceedings or verdict of a court. |
| b. | evidence preserved in this manner. |
| c. | an authentic or official written report of proceedings of a court of justice. |
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–adjective record | 23. | making or affording a record. |
| 24. | surpassing or superior to all others: a record year for automobile sales. |
—Idioms| 25. | go on record, to issue a public statement of one's opinion or stand: He went on record as advocating immediate integration. |
| 26. | off the record, | a. | not intended for publication; unofficial; confidential: The President's comment was strictly off the record. |
| b. | not registered or reported as a business transaction; off the books. |
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| 27. | on record, | a. | existing as a matter of public knowledge; known. |
| b. | existing in a publication, document, file, etc.: There was no birth certificate on record. |
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