Dictionary

document en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈdɑkjʊmənt/ (US)
• (US) audio
• /ˈdɒkjʊmənt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• dä'kyo͝omənt (US)
• dŏ'kyo͝omənt (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French document, from Latin documentum.

Meanings

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.
   • Saint Luke […] collected them from such documents and testimonies as he […] judged to be authentic. 1794, William Paley, View of the Evidences of Christianity:
2. Any material substance on which the information is represented by writing.
   • 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. 1999, Robert Lacey, Danny Danziger, The Year 1000: What life was like at the turn of The First Millennium, London: Abacus, published 2000, page 122:
3. A file that contains text.
   • That exception is the HTML <IMG> 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. 2012, Julie A. Jacko, editor, Human Computer Interaction Handbook, 3rd edition, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 571:
4. An object conveying information by whatever means, capable of being indexed alongside other similar objects.
   • 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. 2022 July 15, Alex Urban, “Mementos from digital worlds: Video game photography as documentation”, in Journal of Documentation, →DOI, →ISSN, Abstract:
5. (obsolete) That which is taught or authoritatively set forth; precept; instruction; dogma.
   • 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. 1741, Isaac Watts, The Improvement of the Mind:
6. (obsolete) An example for instruction or warning.
   • They were forthwith stoned to death, as a document to others. 1614, Sir Walter Raleigh, The Historie of the World:

Forms

Deriveds

documental · here-document · e-document · electronic document · document-oriented · document retrieval · travel document · ancient document · metadocument · document structuring · documentality · hyperdocument · multidocument · document camera · documentarian · document management system · documentary · multidocuments · microdocument · document-style · interdocument · source document · doculect · intradocument · subdocument · identity document · documentology · liquid document

Hyponyms

here document · slip · Web document

Relateds

doctor · docile · doctrine · docent · indoctrinate · doctrinaire · doctorate · doctrinal

Translations (161)

es documento (original or official paper) · ca document (original or official paper) · he מִסְמָךְ (original or official paper) · fa-ira سَنَد (original or official paper) · cmn 文獻 /文献 (original or official paper) · eo akto (original or official paper) · vo doküm (original or official paper) · az dokument (original or official paper) · tr evrak (original or official paper) · yi געשריפֿט (original or official paper) · ur دَسْتاویز (original or official paper) · oc document (original or official paper) · be дакуме́нт (original or official paper) · udm ужкагаз (original or official paper) · scn carta (original or official paper) · he תְּעוּדָה (original or official paper) · ast documentu (original or official paper) · kmr dokument (original or official paper) · tg мадрак (original or official paper) · it carta (original or official paper) · eo dokumento (original or official paper) · nrf dotchûment (original or official paper) · ta பத்திரம் (original or official paper) · vi tài liệu (original or official paper) · ms dokumen (original or official paper) · mt dokument (original or official paper) · gd sgrìobhainn (original or official paper) · km ឯកសារ (original or official paper) · el έγγραφο (original or official paper) · yi כּתבֿ (original or official paper) · ga doiciméad (original or official paper) · tk dokument (original or official paper) · hi प्रलेख (original or official paper) · scn ducumentu (original or official paper) · tl dokumento (original or official paper) · hy դոկումենտ (original or official paper) · sk dokument (original or official paper) · ps وثيقه (original or official paper) · ko 도큐먼트 (original or official paper) · ar وَثِيقَة (original or official paper) · ga cáipéis (original or official paper) · uz dokument (original or official paper) · ja 文書 (original or official paper) · ms surat (original or official paper) · kmr belge (original or official paper) · fr écrit (original or official paper) · ar مُسْتَنَد ((computing) a file that contains text) · cs dokument (original or official paper) · uz hujjat (original or official paper) · ug دوكۇمېنت (original or official paper) · grc δέλτος (original or official paper) · fa-ira حُجَّت (original or official paper) · uz sanad (original or official paper) · udm документ (original or official paper) · tl papeles (original or official paper) · oj mazina'igan (original or official paper) · ur کاغَذ (original or official paper) · de Aktenstück (original or official paper) · vi văn kiện (original or official paper) · lv dokuments (original or official paper) · mk докуме́нт (original or official paper) · my စာရွက်စာတမ်း (original or official paper) · fy dokumint (original or official paper) · mi tuhinga (original or official paper) · da dokument (original or official paper) · az sənəd (original or official paper) · hu okmány (original or official paper) · ro document (original or official paper) · nl document (original or official paper) · ja ドキュメント (original or official paper) · hy փաստաթուղթ (original or official paper) · tg документ (original or official paper) · yi שריפֿט (original or official paper) · cmn 文書 /文书 (original or official paper) · bn দলিল (original or official paper) · kk құжат (original or official paper) · ht dokiman (original or official paper) · lt dokumentas (original or official paper) · ab адокумент (original or official paper) · it documento (original or official paper) · hu okirat (original or official paper) · izh assiapaperi (original or official paper) · af dokument ((computing) a file that contains text) · ja 書類 (original or official paper) · eu dokumentu (original or official paper) · lo ເອກະສານ (original or official paper) · fi dokumentti (original or official paper) · ar مُسْتَنَد (original or official paper) · cmn 文件 (original or official paper) · haw palapala (original or official paper) · fy akte (original or official paper) · de Dokument (original or official paper) · ug ھۆججەت (original or official paper) · alt документ (original or official paper) · fr document (original or official paper) · es pliego (original or official paper) · gl documento (original or official paper) · fo skjal (original or official paper) · ur تَحْرِیر (original or official paper) · sh dokùment (original or official paper) · fa-ira مَدْرَک (original or official paper) · de Unterlagen (original or official paper) · pt documento (original or official paper) · ab ашәҟәы (original or official paper) · ru докуме́нт (original or official paper) · scn pricu (original or official paper) · sh доку̀мент (original or official paper) · pl dokument (original or official paper) · sw waraka (original or official paper) · sl dokument (original or official paper) · cmn 文檔 /文档 ((computing) a file that contains text) · ko 문서 (original or official paper) · tr doküman (original or official paper) · de Schriftstück (original or official paper) · sv dokument (original or official paper) · tg ҳуҷҷат (original or official paper) · mn баримт бичиг (original or official paper) · fi asiakirja (original or official paper) · hi सनद (original or official paper) · es cédula (original or official paper) · ko 서류 (original or official paper) · yi דאָקומענט (original or official paper) · hi काग़ज़ (original or official paper) · ka დოკუმენტი (original or official paper) · th เอกสาร (original or official paper) · la documentum (original or official paper) · bn দস্তাবেজ (original or official paper) · la scriptum (original or official paper) · yi שטר (original or official paper) · el τεκμήριο (original or official paper) · ky документ (original or official paper) · kk ыспаттама (original or official paper) · ps دستاوېز (original or official paper) · uk докуме́нт (original or official paper) · ps سند (original or official paper) · bg докуме́нт (original or official paper) · nb dokument (original or official paper) · be дакумэ́нт (original or official paper) · si ඔප්පුව (original or official paper) · hu dokumentum (original or official paper) · mfe dokiman (original or official paper) · id dokumen (original or official paper) · cmn 公文 (original or official paper) · ps مدرک (original or official paper) · ur وَثِیقَہ (original or official paper) · hi दस्तावेज़ (original or official paper) · ka საბუთი (original or official paper) · is skjal (original or official paper) · ur سَنَد (original or official paper) · hi पत्र (original or official paper) · az kağız (original or official paper) · tr belge (original or official paper) · sq dokument (original or official paper) · pl dokument ((computing) a file that contains text) · sms dokumentt (original or official paper) · zza medrek (original or official paper) · et dokument (original or official paper) · mh baeļ ((computing) a file that contains text) · tg санад (original or official paper) · ur نَوِشْت (original or official paper) · ar حُجَّة (original or official paper)

document en · VERB

Pronunciation

• dä'kyo͝omĕnt (US)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈdɑkjʊmɛnt/ (US)
• /ˈdɒkjʊmɛnt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• dŏ'kyo͝omĕnt (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French document, from Latin documentum.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To record in documents.
   • “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. 2012 December 24, Joshua Foer, “Utopian for Beginners”, in The New Yorker, archived from the original on 30 Jul 2018:
   • 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. 2015, Louise J. Wilkinson, Women in Thirteenth-Century Lincolnshire, page 92:
   • The relationship between memory as lived and history as documented is always a complex dialogue — each informing, and disinforming, the other. 2009 May 18, Henry Greenspan, “Of Memory and Israel”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022:
   • He documented each step of the process as he did it, which was good when the investigation occurred.
2. (transitive) To furnish with documents or papers necessary to establish facts or give information.
   • A ship should be documented according to the directions of law.

Forms

Deriveds

underdocumented · documentability · overdocumented · nondocumented · redocument · documentor · photodocument · misdocument · overdocument · undocumented · underdocument · documentation · documentable · undocument

Translations (41)

scn annutari (to record in documents) · de dokumentieren (to record in documents) · scn riggistrari (to record in documents) · eo dokumenti (to record in documents) · pl udokumentować (to record in documents) · yi דאָקומענטירן (to record in documents) · be дакументава́ць (to record in documents) · pl udokumentować (to furnish with documents or papers necessary to establish facts or give information) · sv dokumentera (to record in documents) · ar وَثَّق (to record in documents) · fi kirjata (to record in documents) · el τεκμηριώνω (to record in documents) · is skjala (to record in documents) · ro documenta (to record in documents) · cs dokumentovat (to record in documents) · nl documenteren (to record in documents) · pl dokumentować (to furnish with documents or papers necessary to establish facts or give information) · es documentar (to record in documents) · io dokumentizar (to record in documents) · uk задокументо́вувати (to record in documents) · fa بنچیدن (to record in documents) · mi tuhi (to record in documents) · pl dokumentować (to record in documents) · ka დოკუმენტირება (to record in documents) · fr documenter (to record in documents) · af dokumenteer (to record in documents) · uk задокументува́ти (to record in documents) · scn scrìviri (to record in documents) · uk документува́ти (to record in documents) · hi उल्लेखन (to record in documents) · ca documentar (to record in documents) · fi dokumentoida (to record in documents) · nrf dotchûmenter (to record in documents) · ru документи́ровать (to record in documents) · pt documentar (to record in documents) · tr belgelemek (to record in documents) · es registrar (to record in documents) · bg документирам (to record in documents) · he תיעד \ תִּעֵד (to record in documents) · scn appuntari (to record in documents) · es anotar (to record in documents)