ledger vs record

ledger

verb
  • To record (something) in, or as if in, a ledger. 

  • To use (a certain type of bait) in bottom fishing. 

  • To engage in bottom fishing. 

noun
  • A large, flat stone, especially one laid over a tomb. 

  • A book for keeping notes; a record book, a register. 

  • A distributed ledger, a public financial transaction database, typically using a blockchain. 

  • A board attached to a wall to provide support for attaching other structural elements (such as deck joists or roof rafters) to a building. 

  • A book or other scheme for keeping accounting records. 

  • A collection of accounting entries consisting of credits and debits. 

record

verb
  • To make a record of information. 

  • To fix in a medium, usually in a tangible medium. 

  • To give legal status to by making an official public record. 

  • To make an audio or video recording of. 

  • To make an audio, video, or multimedia recording. 

adj
  • Enough to break previous records and set a new one; world-class; extreme. 

noun
  • The most extreme known value of some variable, particularly that of an achievement in competitive events. 

  • A set of data relating to a single individual or item. 

  • An item of information put into a temporary or permanent physical medium. 

  • 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. 

  • Any instance of a physical medium on which information was put for the purpose of preserving it and making it available for future reference. 

How often have the words ledger and record occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )