Engrave vs Record - What's the difference?
engrave | record |
(lb) To carve text or symbols into (something), usually for the purposes of identification or art.
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(lb) To carve (something) into a material.
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(obsolete) To put in a grave, to bury.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.i:
An item of information put into a temporary or permanent physical medium.
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Any instance of a physical medium on which information was put for the purpose of preserving it and making it available for future reference.
A vinyl disc on which sound is recorded and may be replayed on a phonograph.
(computing) A set of data relating to a single individual or item.
The most extreme known value of some achievement, particularly in competitive events.
To make a record of information.
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Specifically, to make an audio or video recording of.
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(legal) To give legal status to by making an official public record.
To fix in a medium, usually in a tangible medium.
To make an audio, video, or multimedia recording.
(transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To repeat; to practice.
(ambitransitive, obsolete) To sing or repeat a tune.
* W. Browne
* Fairfax
(obsolete) To reflect; to ponder.
* Fuller
As a verb engrave
is .As a noun record is
record.engrave
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Alternative forms
* (l)Etymology 1
From earlier ingrave, equivalent to . More at (l).Verb
(engrav)Synonyms
* carve, etch, inscribeEtymology 2
From .Verb
(engrav)- So both agree their bodies to engraue ; / The great earthes wombe they open to the sky [...].
Anagrams
* ----record
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) , from recorder. See .Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record .}}
- The person had a record of the interview so she could review her notes.
- The tourist's photographs and the tape of the police call provide a record of the crime.
- We have no record of you making this payment to us.
- I still like records better than CDs.
- The heat and humidity were both new records .
- The team set a new record for most points scored in a game.
Synonyms
* log * (information put into a lasting physical medium) * (vinyl disk) disc/disk * (most extreme known value)Derived terms
* activation record * for the record * of record * on record * off the record * on the record * record-breaking * public record * world recordEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- I wanted to record every detail of what happened, for the benefit of future generations.
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- Within a week they had recorded both the song and the video for it.
- When the deed was recorded , we officially owned the house.
- (Shakespeare)
- whether the birds or she recorded best
- They longed to see the day, to hear the lark / Record her hymns, and chant her carols blest.
- Praying all the way, and recording upon the words which he before had read.
