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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
She was told to sign a Harrods non-disclosure agreement two months after the trip - the BBC has seen this document.
Make a group chat so you can co-ordinate your efforts and, most importantly, put all of your registration numbers and postcodes in a shared document so the first person to reach the front of the queue is ready.
She wanted help identifying a document she’d found among Molina’s papers — it was a fax; it might as well have been a stone tablet to her — from county archives.
She asked about “all the mumbo jumbo” — the transmission information — at the top of the document; I was more interested in the content: records from the 1930s that detailed a shameful chapter in Los Angeles history — repatriation campaigns that targeted Mexican and Mexican American families.
The celebrity news outlet reports that there were no other contributing factors to his death, per the document.
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