Vinyl Definition–adjective | 1. | Chemistry. containing the vinyl group. | –noun | 2. | any resin formed by polymerization of compounds containing the vinyl group or plastics made from such resins. | |
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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 with
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–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, 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. | | –adjective record | 23. | making or affording a record. | | 24. | surpassing or superior to all others: a record year for automobile sales.
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| —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. | | | 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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