Record:
An original work of authorship consisting of musical, spoken or other sounds is sound recording. The action or process of recording sound or a performance for subsequent reproduction or broadcast is recording. The process of capturing data or translating information to a recording format stored on some recording medium which is often referred to as record.
Song:
An original work of authorship consisting of music (melody, harmony, rhythm) often combined with lyrics is song. Song is the composition for voice performed by singing or alongside musical instruments. The song may be for a solo singer, duet, trio or larger ensemble involving more voices. Songs can be broadly divided into many different forms depending upon the criteria used.
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| Definition (www.oxforddictionaries.com) |
A thing constituting a piece of evidence about the past, especially an account kept in writing or some other permanent form | A short poem or other set of words set to music or meant to be sung |
| Synonyms | Catalogue, enter, transcribe, journal, enter, history | Verse, poem, strain, rhyme, canto, poetry, music |
| Antonyms | Bulldoze, loss, bottom, broad, delete, erase | Celebration, gloat, wallow, exult, carouse, bury |
| Word origin | The word record was originated from Middle English: from Old French record ‘remembrance’, from recorder ‘bring to remembrance’, from Latin recordari ‘remember’, based on cor, cord- ‘heart’. The noun was earliest used in law to denote the fact of being written down as evidence. The verb originally meant ‘narrate orally or in writing’, also ‘repeat so as to commit to memory’. | The word music was originated from Old English sang, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zang and German Sang, also to sing. |
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