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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Middle French document, from Latin documentum.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (noun)
- (verb)
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: dŏ'kyo͝omĕnt, IPA(key): /ˈdɒkjʊmɛnt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (US) enPR: dä'kyo͝omĕnt, IPA(key): /ˈdɑkjʊmɛnt/
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: dŏ'kyo͝omĕnt, IPA(key): /ˈdɒkjʊmɛnt/
Noun
[edit]document (plural documents)
- 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.
- 1794, William Paley, View of the Evidences of Christianity:
- Saint Luke […] collected them from such documents and testimonies as he […] judged to be authentic.
- Any material substance on which the information is represented by writing.
- (computing) A file that contains text.
- (information science) An object conveying information by whatever means, capable of being indexed alongside other similar objects.
- 2022 July 15, Alex Urban, “Mementos from digital worlds: Video game photography as documentation”, in Journal of Documentation, , →ISSN, Abstract:
- 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.
- (obsolete) That which is taught or authoritatively set forth; precept; instruction; dogma.
- 1741, Isaac Watts, The Improvement of the Mind:
- 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.
- (obsolete) An example for instruction or warning.
- 1614, Sir Walter Raleigh, The Historie of the World:
- They were forthwith stoned to death, as a document to others.
Hyponyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- ancient document
- doculect
- documental
- documentality
- documentarian
- documentary
- document camera
- document management system
- documentology
- document-oriented
- document retrieval
- document structuring
- document-style
- e-document
- here-document
- hyperdocument
- identity document
- interdocument
- intradocument
- liquid document
- metadocument
- microdocument
- multidocument
- multidocuments
- source document
- subdocument
- travel document
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]original or official paper
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(computing) a file that contains text
Verb
[edit]document (third-person singular simple present documents, present participle documenting, simple past and past participle documented)
- To record in documents.
- He documented each step of the process as he did it, which was good when the investigation occurred.
- 2009 May 25, “Of Memory and Israel”, in The New York Times[1]:
- The relationship between memory as lived and history as documented is always a complex dialogue — each informing, and disinforming, the other.
- 2015, Louise J. Wilkinson, Women in Thirteenth-Century Lincolnshire, page 92:
- 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.
- To furnish with documents or papers necessary to establish facts or give information.
- A ship should be documented according to the directions of law.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]to record in documents
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to furnish with documents or papers necessary to establish facts or give information
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Further reading
[edit]- document on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “document”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
[edit]Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin documentum.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]document m (plural documents)
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “document” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “document”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “document” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “document” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Middle French document, from Latin documentum.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]document n (plural documenten, diminutive documentje n)
- document
- Synonym: bewijsstuk
Descendants
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin documentum.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]document m (plural documents)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “document”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Friulian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]document m
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[edit]Lombard
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]document m
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[edit]Occitan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin documentum. Attested from the 13th century.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]document m (plural documents)
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2024, page 207.
Piedmontese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin documentum.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]document m
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French document, Italian documento, Latin documentum.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]document n (plural documente)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | ||||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
nominative-accusative | document | documentul | documente | documentele | |
genitive-dative | document | documentului | documente | documentelor | |
vocative | documentule | documentelor |
Further reading
[edit]- document in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
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