record vs tell time

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. 

tell time

verb
  • to measure time, to determine the current time 

  • to read the time as displayed on a clock 

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