recording
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2.1
- noun
- /rɪˈkɔrdɪŋ/
- I don't have the money for a recording studio.
- the recording process
- a recording session
- recording device
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Examples
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Uh, we're doing like two and a half hours of recording, I think?
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And, please, people, no recording devices.
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This is a recording of our first session.
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As you listen to this recording, point to each word as you hear it.
Academic text (2011) -
At each lesson, students in all groups heard a model recording and played through the music.
Academic text (2011) -
Remember, audio only, gotta get a good recording.
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We'll load you down with recording equipment and bring that data home to the theorists, too.
Fiction book (2001) -
I'm taking Melinda to a recording session.
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Everyone had a sense of accomplishment when we listened to the recording of our newly formed ensemble.
Academic text (1990) -
The recording of the lecture was helpful for studying later.
Synonyms
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2.1
Recording a movie or video with a camera
24
3.2
A recording of sound or video made on tape
12
2.3
A saved sound like a file or tape of speech and music
10
2.9
Sound or pictures saved on long plastic tape for playing later
8
2.2
A film of moving images with sound that you can watch later
4
3.2
A saved copy of voices, music, or other noises you can play back
1
7.5
A sound or video copy made of an event
Antonyms
Compounds
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5.1
A sound recording made long ago that people value for its warm sound and history
- Archaic
1
7.9
A flat disk with a long groove that makes sound when a needle moves
- Specialized
A picture that shows how numbers relate using points or lines on two lines called axes
- Archaic
A flat disk used to make and play sound on an old record player
- Specialized
A recording made now to sound like old records using tape machines or analog gear
How Thorough
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Recording comes from the same roots as the verb record: re- 'again' and cord 'heart', giving the idea of calling something back to memory. So to make a recording is to save sounds or images now so you can bring them back later.