record vs theory

record

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. 

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. 

theory

noun
  • A coherent statement or set of ideas that explains observed facts or phenomena and correctly predicts new facts or phenomena not previously observed, or which sets out the laws and principles of something known or observed; a hypothesis confirmed by observation, experiment etc. 

  • A field of study attempting to exhaustively describe a particular class of constructs. 

  • A set of axioms together with all statements derivable from them; or, a set of statements which are deductively closed. Equivalently, a formal language plus a set of axioms (from which can then be derived theorems). The statements may be required to all be bound (i.e., to have no free variables). 

  • A hypothesis or conjecture. 

  • A description of an event or system that is considered to be accurate. 

  • The underlying principles or methods of a given technical skill, art etc., as opposed to its practice. 

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