document vs record

document

verb
  • To record in documents. 

  • To furnish with documents or papers necessary to establish facts or give information. 

noun
  • An object conveying information by whatever means, capable of being indexed alongside other similar objects. 

  • An original or official paper used as the basis, proof, or support of anything else, including any writing, book, or other instrument conveying information pertinent to such proof or support. 

  • Any material substance on which the information is represented by writing. 

  • A file that contains text. 

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 document and record occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )