Measure vs. Record — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Measure and Record
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Measure
A reference standard or sample used for the quantitative comparison of properties
The standard kilogram is maintained as a measure of mass.
Record
To set down for preservation in writing or other permanent form
She recorded her thoughts in a diary.
Measure
A unit specified by a scale, such as an inch, or by variable conditions, such as a day's march.
Record
To register or indicate
The clerk recorded the votes.
Measure
A system of measurement, such as the metric system.
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Record
To render (sound or images) into permanent form for reproduction in a magnetic or electronic medium.
Measure
The dimensions, quantity, or capacity of something as ascertained by comparison with a standard
Curtains made to measure.
Took his measure for the suit jacket.
Record
To record the words, sound, appearance, or performance of (someone or something)
Recorded the oldest townspeople on tape.
Recorded the violin concerto.
Measure
A device used for measuring.
Record
To record something.
Measure
The act of measuring
By measure the picture was four feet tall.
Record
An account, as of information or facts, set down especially in writing as a means of preserving knowledge.
Measure
An evaluation or a basis of comparison
"the final measure of the worth of a society" (Joseph Wood Krutch).
Record
Something on which such an account is based.
Measure
Extent or degree
The problem was in large measure caused by his carelessness.
Record
Something that records
A fossil record.
Measure
A definite quantity that has been measured out
A measure of wine.
Record
Information or data on a particular subject collected and preserved
The coldest day on record.
Measure
A fitting amount
A measure of recognition.
Record
The known history of performance, activities, or achievement
Your academic record.
Hampered by a police record.
Measure
A limited amount or degree
A measure of goodwill.
Record
An unsurpassed measurement
A world record in weightlifting.
A record for cold weather.
Measure
Limit; bounds
Generosity knowing no measure.
Record
(Computers) A collection of related, often adjacent items of data, treated as a unit.
Measure
Appropriate restraint; moderation
"The union of ... fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal" (William James).
Record
(Law) A transcript or a collection of statements and related information reporting the proceedings of a legislative body, a court, or an executive.
Measure
An action taken as a means to an end; an expedient
Measures taken to improve energy efficiency.
Record
A disk designed to be played on a phonograph.
Measure
A law or ballot initiative adopted by a legislature as a remedy for a problem.
Record
A musical recording that is issued on a medium of some kind.
Measure
Poetic meter.
Record
An item of information put into a temporary or permanent physical medium.
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.
Measure
(Music) The metric unit between two bars on the staff; a bar.
Record
Any instance of a physical medium on which information was put for the purpose of preserving it and making it available for future reference.
We have no record of you making this payment to us.
Measure
To ascertain the dimensions, quantity, or capacity of
Measured the height of the ceiling.
Record
Ellipsis of phonograph record: a disc, usually made from vinyl, on which sound is recorded and may be replayed on a phonograph.
I still like records better than CDs.
Measure
To mark, lay out, or establish dimensions for by measuring
Measure off an area.
Record
(computing) A set of data relating to a single individual or item.
Pull up the record on John Smith. What's his medical history?
Measure
To mark off or apportion, usually with reference to a given unit of measurement
Measure out a pint of milk.
Record
(programming) A data structure similar to a struct, in some programming languages such as C# and Java based on classes and designed for storing immutable data.
Measure
To allot or distribute as if by measuring; mete
The revolutionary tribunal measured out harsh justice.
Record
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Measure
To estimate by evaluation or comparison
"I gave them an account ... of the situation as far as I could measure it" (Winston S. Churchill).
Record
The most extreme known value of some variable, particularly that of an achievement in competitive events.
The heat and humidity were both new records.
The team set a new record for most points scored in a game.
Measure
To bring into comparison
She measured her power with that of a dangerous adversary.
Record
(attributive) Enough to break previous records and set a new one; world-class; extreme.
Measure
To serve as a measure of
The inch measures length.
Record
(transitive) To make a record of information.
I wanted to record every detail of what happened, for the benefit of future generations.
Measure
To consider or choose with care; weigh
He measures his words with caution.
Record
(transitive) To make an audio or video recording of.
Within a week they had recorded both the song and the video for it.
Measure
(Archaic) To travel over
"We must measure twenty miles today" (Shakespeare).
Record
To give legal status to by making an official public record.
When the deed was recorded, we officially owned the house.
Measure
To be of a specific measurement
The room measures 12 by 20 feet.
Record
(intransitive) To fix in a medium, usually in a tangible medium.
Measure
To take a measurement.
Record
(intransitive) To make an audio, video, or multimedia recording.
Measure
To allow of measurement
White sugar measures more easily than brown.
Record
To repeat; to practice.
Measure
A prescribed quantity or extent.
Record
To sing or repeat a tune.
Measure
(obsolete) Moderation, temperance.
Record
(obsolete) To reflect; to ponder.
Measure
A limit that cannot be exceeded; a bound. (Now chiefly in set phrases.)
Record
To recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate.
Measure
An (unspecified) portion or quantity.
Record
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.
Measure
The act or result of measuring.
Record
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.
Measure
A receptacle or vessel of a standard size, capacity etc. as used to deal out specific quantities of some substance.
A measure of salt
Record
To reflect; to ponder.
Praying all the way, and recording upon the words which he before had read.
Measure
A standard against which something can be judged; a criterion.
Honesty is the true measure of a man.
Record
To sing or repeat a tune.
Whether the birds or she recorded best.
Measure
Any of various standard units of capacity.
The villagers paid a tithe of a thousand measures of corn.
Record
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.
Measure
A unit of measurement.
Record
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.
Measure
The size of someone or something, as ascertained by measuring. (Now chiefly in make to measure.)
Record
Testimony; witness; attestation.
John bare record, saying.
Measure
The act or process of measuring.
Record
That which serves to perpetuate a knowledge of acts or events; a monument; a memorial.
Measure
A ruler, measuring stick, or graduated tape used to take measurements.
Record
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.
Measure
A number which is contained in a given number a number of times without a remainder; a divisor or factor.
The greatest common measure of two or more numbers
Record
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.
Measure
(geology) A bed or stratum.
Coal measures; lead measures
Record
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
Measure
(mathematics) A function that assigns a non-negative number to a given set following the mathematical nature that is common among length, volume, probability and the like.
Record
The number of wins versus losses and ties a team has had;
At 9-0 they have the best record in their league
Measure
Metrical rhythm.
Record
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
Measure
A melody.
Record
Sound recording consisting of a disc with continuous grooves; formerly used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracked in the grooves
Measure
A dance.
Record
The sum of recognized accomplishments;
The lawyer has a good record
The track record shows that he will be a good president
Measure
(poetry) The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a metrical foot.
A poem in iambic measure
Record
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
Measure
(music) A musical designation consisting of all notes and or rests delineated by two vertical bars; an equal and regular division of the whole of a composition; a bar.
Record
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
Measure
A course of action.
Record
A document that can serve as legal evidence of a transaction;
They could find no record of the purchase
Measure
(in plural) Actions designed to achieve some purpose; plans.
Record
Make a record of; set down in permanent form
Measure
A piece of legislation.
Record
Register electronically;
They recorded her singing
Measure
To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.
We measured the temperature with a thermometer.
You should measure the angle with a spirit level.
Record
Indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments;
The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero
The gauge read `empty'
Measure
(stative) To be of (a certain size), to have (a certain measurement)
The window measured two square feet.
Record
Be aware of;
Did you register any change when I pressed the button?
Measure
To estimate the unit size of something.
I measure that at 10 centimetres.
Record
Be or provide a memorial to a person or an event;
This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps
We memorialized the Dead
Measure
To judge, value, or appraise.
Measure
To obtain or set apart; to mark in even increments.
Measure
(rare) To traverse, cross, pass along; to travel over.
Measure
To adjust by a rule or standard.
Measure
To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with out or off.
Measure
A standard of dimension; a fixed unit of quantity or extent; an extent or quantity in the fractions or multiples of which anything is estimated and stated; hence, a rule by which anything is adjusted or judged.
Measure
An instrument by means of which size or quantity is measured, as a graduated line, rod, vessel, or the like.
False ells and measures be brought all clean adown.
Measure
The dimensions or capacity of anything, reckoned according to some standard; size or extent, determined and stated; estimated extent; as, to take one's measure for a coat.
The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
Measure
The contents of a vessel by which quantity is measured; a quantity determined by a standard; a stated or limited quantity or amount.
It is like leaven which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal.
Measure
Extent or degree not excessive or beyong bounds; moderation; due restraint; esp. in the phrases, in measure; with measure; without or beyond measure.
Hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure.
Measure
Determined extent, not to be exceeded; limit; allotted share, as of action, influence, ability, or the like; due proportion.
Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days.
Measure
The quantity determined by measuring, especially in buying and selling; as, to give good or full measure.
Measure
Undefined quantity; extent; degree.
There is a great measure of discretion to be used in the performance of confession.
Measure
Regulated division of movement
Measure
A number which is contained in a given number a number of times without a remainder; as in the phrases, the common measure, the greatest common measure, etc., of two or more numbers; a denominator. See common denominator under denominator.
Measure
A step or definite part of a progressive course or policy; a means to an end; an act designed for the accomplishment of an object; as, political measures; prudent measures; an inefficient measure.
His majesty found what wrong measures he had taken in the conferring that trust, and lamented his error.
Measure
The act of measuring; measurement.
Measure
Beds or strata; as, coal measures; lead measures.
Say to her, we have measured many milesTo tread a measure with her on this grass.
Measure
To ascertain by use of a measuring instrument; to compute or ascertain the extent, quantity, dimensions, or capacity of, by a certain rule or standard; to take the dimensions of; hence, to estimate; to judge of; to value; to appraise.
Great are thy works, Jehovah, infiniteThy power! what thought can measure thee?
Measure
To serve as the measure of; as, the thermometer measures changes of temperature.
Measure
To pass throught or over in journeying, as if laying off and determining the distance.
A true devoted pilgrim is not wearyTo measure kingdoms with his feeble steps.
Measure
To adjust by a rule or standard.
To secure a contented spirit, measure your desires by your fortunes, not your fortunes by your desires.
Measure
To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; - often with out or off.
With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
That portion of eternity which is called time, measured out by the sun.
Measure
To make a measurement or measurements.
Measure
To result, or turn out, on measuring; as, the grain measures well; the pieces measure unequally.
Measure
To be of a certain size or quantity, or to have a certain length, breadth, or thickness, or a certain capacity according to a standard measure; as, cloth measures three fourths of a yard; a tree measures three feet in diameter.
Measure
The act or process of measuring;
The measurements were carefully done
His mental measurings proved remarkably accurate
Measure
A basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated;
They set the measure for all subsequent work
Measure
How much there is of something that you can quantify
Measure
Any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal;
The situation called for strong measures
The police took steps to reduce crime
Measure
A statute in draft before it becomes law;
They held a public hearing on the bill
Measure
(prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
Measure
Musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats;
The orchestra omitted the last twelve bars of the song
Measure
Measuring instrument having a sequence of marks at regular intervals; used as a reference in making measurements
Measure
Determine the measurements of something or somebody, take measurements of;
Measure the length of the wall
Measure
Express as a number or measure or quantity;
Can you quantify your results?
Measure
Have certain dimensions;
This table surfaces measures 20inches by 36 inches
Measure
Place a value on; judge the worth of something;
I will have the family jewels appraised by a professional
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