(~ed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
If you keep a ~ of something, you keep a written account or photographs of it so that it can be referred to later.
Keep a ~ of all the payments...
There’s no ~ of any marriage or children...
The result will go on your medical ~s.
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2.
If you ~ a piece of information or an event, you write it down, photograph it, or put it into a computer so that in the future people can refer to it.
...software packages which ~ the details of your photographs.
...a place which has rarely suffered a famine in its ~ed history.
VERB: V n, V-ed
3.
If you ~ something such as a speech or performance, you put it on tape or film so that it can be heard or seen again later.
There is nothing to stop viewers ~ing the films on videotape...
The call was answered by a ~ed message saying the company had closed early.
VERB: V n, V-ed
4.
If a musician or performer ~s a piece of music or a television or radio show, they perform it so that it can be put onto CD, tape, or film.
It took the musicians two and a half days to ~ their soundtrack for the film...
VERB: V n
5.
A ~ is a round, flat piece of black plastic on which sound, especially music, is stored, and which can be played on a ~ player. You can also refer to the music stored on this piece of plastic as a ~.
This is one of my favourite ~s.
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6.
If a dial or other measuring device ~s a certain measurement or value, it shows that measurement or value.
The test ~s the electrical activity of the brain...
VERB: V n
7.
A ~ is the best result that has ever been achieved in a particular sport or activity, for example the fastest time, the furthest distance, or the greatest number of victories.
Roger Kingdom set the world ~ of 12.92 seconds...
...the 800 metres, where she is the world ~ holder.
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8.
You use ~ to say that something is higher, lower, better, or worse than has ever been achieved before.
Profits were at ~ levels...
She won the race in ~ time.
ADJ: ADJ n
9.
Someone’s ~ is the facts that are known about their achievements or character.
His ~ reveals a tough streak...
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10.
If someone has a criminal ~, it is officially known that they have committed crimes in the past.
...a heroin addict with a criminal ~ going back 15 years...
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11.
see also ~ing , track ~
12.
If you say that what you are going to say next is for the ~, you mean that you are saying it publicly and officially and you want it to be written down and remembered.
We’re willing to state for the ~ that it has enormous value.
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13.
If you give some information for the ~, you give it in case people might find it useful at a later time, although it is not a very important part of what you are talking about.
For the ~, most Moscow girls leave school at about 18...
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14.
If something that you say is off the ~, you do not intend it to be considered as official, or published with your name attached to it.
May I speak off the ~?...
PHRASE: usu PHR after v, PHR n
15.
If you are on ~ as saying something, you have said it publicly and officially and it has been written down.
The Chancellor is on ~ as saying that the increase in unemployment is ‘a price worth paying’ to keep inflation down.
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16.
If you keep information on ~, you write it down or store it in a computer so that it can be used later.
The practice is to keep on ~ any analysis of samples.
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17.
If something is the best, worst, or biggest on ~, it is the best, worst, or biggest thing of its kind that has been noticed and written down.
It’s the shortest election campaign on ~...
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18.
If you set the ~ straight or put the ~ straight, you show that something which has been regarded as true is in fact not true.
Let me set the ~ straight on the misconceptions contained in your article.
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