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document
[ noun dok-yuh-muhnt; verb dok-yuh-ment ]
noun
- a written or printed paper furnishing information or evidence, as a passport, deed, bill of sale, or bill of lading; a legal or official paper:
You'll need documents from your employers and your bank to prepare your income tax return.
- any written item, as a book, article, or letter, especially of a factual or informative nature:
The leaked document proves that the management team knew about the safety issues before the product launch.
- Digital Technology. a computer data file, especially one with formatted text:
Luckily, I saved my document right before the power went out.
- Archaic. evidence; proof.
verb (used with object)
- to furnish with documents.
- to furnish with references, citations, etc., in support of statements made:
a carefully documented biography.
Synonyms: validate, substantiate, verify, corroborate
- to support by documentary evidence:
to document a case.
- Nautical. to provide (a vessel) with a certificate giving particulars concerning nationality, ownership, tonnage, dimensions, etc.
- Obsolete. to instruct.
document
noun
- a piece of paper, booklet, etc, providing information, esp of an official or legal nature
- a piece of text or text and graphics stored in a computer as a file for manipulation by document processing software
- archaic.evidence; proof
verb
- to record or report in detail, as in the press, on television, etc
the trial was well documented by the media
- to support (statements in a book) with citations, references, etc
- to support (a claim, etc) with evidence or proof
- to furnish (a vessel) with official documents specifying its ownership, registration, weight, dimensions, and function
Other Words From
- doc·u·ment·a·ble [dok, -y, uh, -men-t, uh, -b, uh, l, dok-y, uh, -, men, -], adjective
- docu·menter noun
- non·docu·mented adjective noun
- re·docu·ment verb (used with object)
- well-docu·mented adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of document1
Example Sentences
A second document was titled: “Gambia Reborn: A Charter for Transition from Dictatorship to Democracy and Development.”
I am not the first or last person to document the hip-hop scene in Cuba.
Normal procedure is that any member country can request that a document be circulated, and the UN does it pro-forma.
This is both an outstanding work of scholarship and a commanding visual document.
The document said Wright was condescending and had “resorted to name-calling,” though no examples were offered.
The Empress had shewn herself too entirely prejudiced, to have been affected by any document he could have presented.
“Lecompton” constitution of Kansas was a pro-slavery document which Buchanan favoured.
The Assistant Commissioner, hand pressed to brow, began to study a document which lay before him.
Decollat,” says a contemporary document, with a grim succinctness, “in castrum Londin: vulgo turris appellatur.
One of them snarls quietly out of a long document about the Statement of Claim.
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