book vs record

book

noun
  • A convenient collection, in a form resembling a book, of small paper items for individual use. 

  • A record of betting (from the use of a notebook to record what each person has bet). 

  • A book award, a recognition for receiving the highest grade in a class (traditionally an actual book, but recently more likely a letter or certificate acknowledging the achievement). 

  • A list of all players who have been booked (received a warning) in a game. 

  • A major division of a long work. 

  • Records of the accounts of a business. 

  • A bookmaker (a person who takes bets on sporting events and similar); bookie; turf accountant. 

  • Six tricks taken by one side. 

  • Four of a kind. 

  • The accumulated body of knowledge passed down among black pimps. 

  • The script of a musical or opera. 

  • A portfolio of one's previous work in the industry. 

  • The twenty-sixth Lenormand card. 

  • A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc. 

  • Any source of instruction. 

  • The sum of chess knowledge in the opening or endgame. 

  • A long work fit for publication, typically prose, such as a novel or textbook, and typically published as such a bound collection of sheets, but now sometimes electronically as an e-book. 

  • A document, held by the referee, of the incidents happened in the game. 

verb
  • To record bets as bookmaker. 

  • To receive the highest grade in a class. 

  • To leave. 

  • To reserve (something) for future use. 

  • To record the name and other details of a suspected offender and the offence for later judicial action. 

  • To issue a caution to, usually a yellow card, or a red card if a yellow card has already been issued. 

  • simple past tense of bake 

  • To write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book. 

  • To add a name to the list of people who are participating in something. 

  • To travel very fast. 

record

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

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

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

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

  • To make a record of information. 

  • 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. 

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