document

From Middle French document.

• (noun)
  • (Received Pronunciation): enPR: dŏ'kyo͝omənt, IPA^(key): /ˈdɒkjʊmənt/
  • (US): enPR: dä'kyo͝omənt, IPA^(key): /ˈdɑkjʊmənt/
• (verb)
  • (Received Pronunciation): enPR: dŏ'kyo͝omĕnt, IPA^(key): /ˈdɒkjʊmɛnt/
  • (US): enPR: dä'kyo͝omĕnt, IPA^(key): /ˈdɑkjʊmɛnt/

  • Audio (US)

    (file)

document (plural documents)

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.
   • 1794, William Paley, View of the Evidences of Christianity

     Saint Luke […] collected them from such documents and testimonies as he […] judged to be authentic.

2. Any material substance on which the information is represented by writing.
3. (computing) A file that contains text.
4. (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.

5. (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.

• here document
• Web document

• document-style
• here-document

• document on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

document (third-person singular simple present documents, present participle documenting, simple past and past participle documented)

1. To record in documents.

   He documented each step of the process as he did it, which was good when the investigation occurred.

2. To furnish with documents or papers necessary to establish facts or give information.

   A ship should be documented according to the directions of law.

• documentation

• document in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

document m

1. document

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛnt

document n (plural documenten, diminutive documentje n)

1. document

Borrowed from Latin documentum.

• IPA^(key): /dɔ.ky.mɑ̃/

• Audio (France, Paris)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɑ̃
• Homophone: documents

document m (plural documents)

1. document
2. (computing) file

• documenter

• “document” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).