document — Englisches Wörterbuch

Substantiv

1. 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.

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   Saint Luke […] collected them from such documents and testimonies as he […] judged to be authentic.

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

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   If a morsel of food fell off your plate, the advice of one contemporary document was to pick it up, make the sign of the cross over it, season it well - and then eat it.

3. A file that contains text.

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   That exception is the HTML tag–which transcludes an image into the context of the document. The image itself is neither embedded within the document nor copied—it is transcluded.

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

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   This study examines video game photography as a documentary practice. […] The three themes from this study's findings – that video game photographs act as (1) vehicles for storytelling, (2) creative trophies, and (3) aesthetic tokens – reveal how personally meaningful documents emerge from this medium.

5. That which is taught or authoritatively set forth; precept; instruction; dogma.

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   • außer Gebrauch

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   And particularly they should take care that the memory of the learner be not too much crowded with a tumultuous heap or overbearing multitude of documents or ideas at one time.

6. An example for instruction or warning.

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   • außer Gebrauch

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   They were forthwith stoned to death, as a document to others.

Verb

1. To record in documents.

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   • transitiv

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   He documented each step of the process as he did it, which was good when the investigation occurred.

   The relationship between memory as lived and history as documented is always a complex dialogue — each informing, and disinforming, the other.

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   “Natural languages are adequate, but that doesn’t mean they’re optimal,” John Quijada, a fifty-three-year-old former employee of the California State Department of Motor Vehicles, told me. In 2004, he published a monograph on the Internet that was titled “Ithkuil: A Philosophical Design for a Hypothetical Language.” Written like a linguistics textbook, the fourteen-page Web site ran to almost a hundred and sixty thousand words. It documented the grammar, syntax, and lexicon of a language that Quijada had spent three decades inventing in his spare time.

   Significantly, on documenting Thomas's subsequent outlawry and Margery's waivery, the court clerk recorded that it was not known whether they had any chattels because they were strangers.

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

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   A ship should be documented according to the directions of law.

Substantiv

1. writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature)

   Synonyme

   written documentpapers

   Oberbegriffe

   writingwritten materialpiece of writing

2. anything serving as a representation of a person's thinking by means of symbolic marks

   Oberbegriffe

   representation

3. a written account of ownership or obligation

   Oberbegriffe

   communication

4. (computer science) a computer file that contains text (and possibly formatting instructions) using seven-bit ASCII characters

   Synonyme

   text file

   Oberbegriffe

   computer file

Verb

1. record in detail

   Oberbegriffe

   recordenterput down

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   The parents documented every step of their child's development

2. support or supply with references

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   confirmcorroboratesustainsubstantiatesupportaffirm

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   Can you document your claims?