recording

English

Etymology

By surface analysis, record +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: re‧cord‧ing

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Audio (Canada):

  (file)

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Verb

recording

1. present participle and gerund of record
   • 2013 June 7, David Simpson, Issac Stone, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:

     Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.

Derived terms

• non-recording
• nonrecording

Noun

recording (plural recordings)

1. The act of storing sound, video, etc., in a permanent medium.

   The one-party consent law permits the recording of telephone calls with the consent of at least one of the parties.

2. A reproduction of sound, video, etc., stored in a permanent medium.

   I made a recording of the TV show so that I could watch it later.

3. The act of registering for something; registration.

Derived terms

• longitudinal recording
• magnetic recording
• perpendicular recording
• recording angel
• recording artist
• recording booth
• recording clerk
• recording head
• re-recording
• tape recording
• video recording

 

Translations

act of storing sound, video, etc. in a permanent medium

• German: Aufnehmen n, Aufzeichnen n, Mitschneiden n, Aufnahme (de) f, Aufzeichnung (de) f, Mitschnitt (de) m
• Polish: nagranie (pl) n

reproduction stored in a permanent medium

• Arabic: تَسْجِيل m (tasjīl)
• Belarusian: за́піс m (zápis)
• Bulgarian: за́пис (bg) m (zápis)
• Catalan: gravació f, enregistrament m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 錄音／录音 (zh) (lùyīn)

• Czech: záznam (cs) m, (of a sound) nahrávka (cs) f
• Dutch: opname (nl) m or f
• Finnish: tallenne (fi), taltiointi (fi); äänite (fi), äänitys (fi) (audio); levytys (fi) (music); nauhoite (fi), nauhoitus (fi) (video, audio)
• French: enregistrement (fr) m
• Galician: gravación (gl) f
• Georgian: ჩანაწერი (čanac̣eri)
• German: Aufnahme (de) f, Aufzeichnung (de) f, Mitschnitt (de) m
• Greek: ηχογράφηση (el) f (ichográfisi), μαγνητοσκόπηση (el) (magnitoskópisi)
• Hungarian: felvétel (hu)
• Irish: taifeadadh m
• Italian: registrazione (it) f
• Japanese: 録音 (ja) (ろくおん, rokuon)
• Korean: 녹음 (ko) (nogeum), 록음 (ko) (rogeum) (North Korea)
• Lithuanian: įrašas (lt) m
• Macedonian: запис m (zapis)
• Malay: rakaman (ms)
• Maori: hopunga, hopunga puoro (sound recording), hopunga ataata (video recording)
• Norwegian: opptak n, tagning c

  Bokmål: innspilling m or f

• Polish: nagranie (pl) n
• Portuguese: gravação (pt) f
• Romanian: înregistrare (ro) f
• Russian: за́пись (ru) f (zápisʹ)
• Spanish: grabación (es) f
• Swedish: inspelning (sv) c, upptagning (sv) c
• Ukrainian: за́пис m (zápys)
• Vietnamese: sự ghi âm (vi)
• Walloon: eredjistrumint (wa) m
• Yiddish: רעקאָרדירונג f (rekordirung)

act of registering for something

• German: Eintragen n, Registrieren n, Eintragung (de) f, Registrierung (de) f

Hyponyms

• prerecording
• rerecording

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