footstep, footmark†, footprint; pug; track mark, wake, trail, scent,
piste†.
monument, hatchment†, slab, tablet, trophy, achievement; obelisk,
pillar, column, monolith; memorial; memento &c (memory) 505;
testimonial, medal; commemoration &c (celebration) 883.
record, note, minute; register, registry; roll &c (list) 86;
cartulary, diptych, Domesday book; catalogue raisonne [Fr.]; entry,
memorandum, indorsement†, inscription, copy, duplicate, docket; notch &c
(mark) 550; muniment†, deed &c (security) 771; document; deposition,
proces verbal [Fr.]; affidavit; certificate &c (evidence) 467.
notebook, memorandum book, memo book, pocketbook, commonplace
book; portfolio; pigeonholes, excerpta†, adversaria [Lat.], jottings,
dottings†.
gazette, gazetteer; newspaper, daily, magazine; almanac, almanack†;
calendar, ephemeris, diary, log, journal, daybook, ledger; cashbook†,
petty cashbook†; professional journal, scientific literature, the
literature, primary literature, secondary literature, article, review
article.
archive, scroll, state paper, return, blue book; statistics &c 86;
compte rendu [Fr.]; Acts of, Transactions of, Proceedings of; Hansard's
Debates; chronicle, annals, legend; history, biography &c 594;
Congressional Records.
registration; registry; enrollment, inrollment†; tabulation; entry,
booking; signature &c (identification) 550; recorder &c 553;
journalism.
[analog recording media] recording, tape recording, videotape.
[digital recording media] compact disk; floppy disk, diskette;
hard disk, Winchester disk; read-only memory, ROM; write once read
mostly memory, WORM.
V. record; put on record, place on record; chronicle, calendar, hand
down to posterity; keep up the memory &c (remember) 505; commemorate &c
(celebrate) 883; report &c (inform) 527; write, commit to writing,
reduce to writing; put in writing, set down in writing, writing in
black and white; put down, jot down, take down, write down, note down,
set down; note, minute, put on paper; take note, make a note, take
minute, take memorandum; make a return.
mark &c (indicate) 550; sign &c (attest) 467.
enter, book; post, post up, insert, make an entry of; mark off,
tick off; register, enroll, inscroll†; file &c (store) 636.
burn into memory; carve in stone.
Adv. on record.
Phr. exegi monumentum aere perennium [Horace]; read their history in a
nation's eyes [Gray]; records that defy the tooth of time [Young].