Acetate vs. Record

Acetatenoun

(organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of acetic acid.

Recordverb

To recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate.

Acetatenoun

cellulose acetate

Recordverb

To repeat; to recite; to sing or play.

‘They longed to see the day, to hear the larkRecord her hymns, and chant her carols blest.’;

Acetatenoun

A transparent sheet used for overlays.

Recordverb

To preserve the memory of, by committing to writing, to printing, to inscription, or the like; to make note of; to write or enter in a book or on parchment, for the purpose of preserving authentic evidence of; to register; to enroll; as, to record the proceedings of a court; to record historical events.

‘Those things that are recorded of him . . . are written in the chronicles of the kings.’;

Acetatenoun

A disc of aluminium covered in a wax used to make demonstration copies of a phonograph record.

Recordverb

To reflect; to ponder.

‘Praying all the way, and recording upon the words which he before had read.’;

Acetatenoun

A salt formed by the union of acetic acid with a base or positive radical; as, acetate of lead, acetate of potash.

Recordverb

To sing or repeat a tune.

‘Whether the birds or she recorded best.’;

Acetatenoun

a salt or ester of acetic acid

Recordnoun

A writing by which some act or event, or a number of acts or events, is recorded; a register; as, a record of the acts of the Hebrew kings; a record of the variations of temperature during a certain time; a family record.

Acetatenoun

a fabric made from cellulose acetate fibers

Recordnoun

An official contemporaneous writing by which the acts of some public body, or public officer, are recorded; as, a record of city ordinances; the records of the receiver of taxes.

Acetatenoun

a salt or ester of acetic acid, containing the anion CH₃COO⁻ or the group —OOCCH₃.

Recordnoun

Testimony; witness; attestation.

‘John bare record, saying.’;

Acetatenoun

cellulose acetate, especially as used to make textile fibres or plastic

‘acetate silk’;

Recordnoun

That which serves to perpetuate a knowledge of acts or events; a monument; a memorial.

Acetatenoun

a transparency made of cellulose acetate film.

Recordnoun

That which has been, or might be, recorded; the known facts in the course, progress, or duration of anything, as in the life of a public man; as, a politician with a good or a bad record.

Acetatenoun

a sample version of a recording disc cut by a stylus rather than formed by a stamper, and coated with cellulose acetate.

Recordnoun

That which has been publicly achieved in any kind of competitive sport as recorded in some authoritative manner, as the time made by a winning horse in a race.

Acetate

An acetate is a salt formed by the combination of acetic acid with a base (e.g. alkaline, earthy, metallic, nonmetallic or radical base).

Recordnoun

anything (such as a document or a phonograph record or a photograph) providing permanent evidence of or information about past events;

‘the film provided a valuable record of stage techniques’;

Recordnoun

the number of wins versus losses and ties a team has had;

‘at 9-0 they have the best record in their league’;

Recordnoun

an extreme attainment; the best (or worst) performance ever attested (as in a sport);

‘he tied the Olympic record’; ‘coffee production last year broke all previous records’; ‘Chicago set the homicide record’;

Recordnoun

sound recording consisting of a disc with continuous grooves; formerly used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracked in the grooves

Recordnoun

the sum of recognized accomplishments;

‘the lawyer has a good record’; ‘the track record shows that he will be a good president’;

Recordnoun

a list of crimes for which an accused person has been previously convicted;

‘he ruled that the criminal record of the defendant could not be disclosed to the court’; ‘the prostitute had a record a mile long’;

Recordnoun

a compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone;

‘Al Smith used to say, `Let's look at the record'’; ‘his name is in all the recordbooks’;

Recordnoun

a document that can serve as legal evidence of a transaction;

‘they could find no record of the purchase’;

Recordverb

make a record of; set down in permanent form

Recordverb

register electronically;

‘They recorded her singing’;

Recordverb

indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments;

‘The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero’; ‘The gauge read `empty'’;

Recordverb

be aware of;

‘Did you register any change when I pressed the button?’;

Recordverb

be or provide a memorial to a person or an event;

‘This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps’; ‘We memorialized the Dead’;