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Documents across mediums. Top-left: a word proccessor document using LibreOffice. Top-right: a copy of the Swiss Constitution in German. Bottom-left: a vinyl record holding a set of songs. Bottom-right: a computer program interpreting a fragment of a clay tablet with cuneiform script about king Shalmaneser III
A document is a written, drawn, presented, or memorialized representation of thought, often the manifestation of non-fictional, as well as fictional, content. The word originates from the Latin Documentum, which denotes a «teaching» or «lesson»: the verb doceō denotes «to teach». In the past, the word was usually used to denote written proof useful as evidence of a truth or fact. In the Computer Age, «document» usually denotes a primarily textual computer file, including its structure and format, e.g. fonts, colors, and images. Contemporarily, «document» is not defined by its transmission medium, e.g., paper, given the existence of electronic documents. «Documentation» is distinct because it has more denotations than «document». Documents are also distinguished from «realia», which are three-dimensional objects that would otherwise satisfy the definition of «document» because they memorialize or represent thought; documents are considered more as 2-dimensional representations. While documents can have large varieties of customization, all documents can be shared freely and have the right to do so, creativity can be represented by documents, also. History, events, examples, opinions, etc. all can be expressed in documents.
Abstract definitions[edit]
The concept of «document» has been defined by Suzanne Briet as «any concrete or symbolic indication, preserved or recorded, for reconstructing or for proving a phenomenon, whether physical or mental.»[1]
An often-cited article concludes that «the evolving notion of document» among Jonathan Priest, Paul Otlet, Briet, Walter Schürmeyer, and the other documentalists increasingly emphasized whatever functioned as a document rather than traditional physical forms of documents. The shift to digital technology would seem to make this distinction even more important. David M. Levy has said that an emphasis on the technology of digital documents has impeded our understanding of digital documents as documents.[2] A conventional document, such as a mail message or a technical report, exists physically in digital technology as a string of bits, as does everything else in a digital environment. As an object of study, it has been made into a document. It has become physical evidence by those who study it.
«Document» is defined in library and information science and documentation science as a fundamental, abstract idea: the word denotes everything that may be represented or memorialized to serve as evidence. The classic example provided by Briet is an antelope: «An antelope running wild on the plains of Africa should not be considered a document[;] she rules. But if it were to be captured, taken to a zoo and made an object of study, it has been made into a document. It has become physical evidence being used by those who study it. Indeed, scholarly articles written about the antelope are secondary documents, since the antelope itself is the primary document.»[3][4] This opinion has been interpreted[by whom?] as an early expression of actor–network theory.
Kinds[edit]
A document can be structured, like tabular documents, lists, forms, or scientific charts, semi-structured like a book or a newspaper article, or unstructured like a handwritten note. Documents are sometimes classified as secret, private, or public. They may also be described as drafts or proofs. When a document is copied, the source is denominated the «original».
Documents are used in numerous fields, e.g.:
- Academia: manuscript, thesis, paper, journal, chart, and technical drawing
- Media: mock-up, script, image, photography, and newspaper article
- Administration, law, and politics: application, brief, certificate, commission, constitutional document, form, gazette, identity document, license, manifesto, summons, census, and white paper
- Business: invoice, request for proposal, proposal, contract, packing slip, manifest, report (detailed and summary), spreadsheet, material safety data sheet, waybill, bill of lading, financial statement, nondisclosure agreement (NDA), mutual nondisclosure agreement, and user guide
- Geography and planning: topographic map, cadastre, legend, and architectural plan
Such standard documents can be drafted based on a template.
Drafting[edit]
The page layout of a document is how information is graphically arranged in the space of the document, e.g., on a page. If the appearance of the document is of concern, the page layout is generally the responsibility of a graphic designer. Typography concerns the design of letter and symbol forms and their physical arrangement in the document (see typesetting). Information design concerns the effective communication of information, especially in industrial documents and public signs. Simple textual documents may not require visual design and may be drafted only by an author, clerk, or transcriber. Forms may require a visual design for their initial fields, but not to complete the forms.
Media[edit]
A page of a birth register for Jews from 1859
Traditionally, the medium of a document was paper and the information was applied to it in ink, either by handwriting (to make a manuscript) or by a mechanical process (e.g., a printing press or laser printer). Today, some short documents also may consist of sheets of paper stapled together.
Historically, documents were inscribed with ink on papyrus (starting in ancient Egypt) or parchment; scratched as runes or carved on stone using a sharp tool, e.g., the Tablets of Stone described in the Bible; stamped or incised in clay and then baked to make clay tablets, e.g., in the Sumerian and other Mesopotamian civilizations. The papyrus or parchment was often rolled into a scroll or cut into sheets and bound into a codex (book).
Contemporary electronic means of memorializing and displaying documents include:
- Monitor of a desktop computer, laptop, tablet; optionally with a printer to produce a hard copy;
- Personal digital assistant;
- Dedicated e-book device;
- Electronic paper, typically, using the Portable Document Format (PDF);
- Information appliance;
- Digital audio player; and
- Radio and television service provider.
Digital documents usually require a specific file format to be presentable in a specific medium.
In law[edit]
Documents in all forms frequently serve as material evidence in criminal and civil proceedings. The forensic analysis of such a document is within the scope of questioned document examination. To catalog and manage the large number of documents that may be produced during litigation, Bates numbering is often applied to all documents in the lawsuit so that each document has a unique, arbitrary, identification number.
See also[edit]
- Archive
- Book
- Documentality
- Documentation
- History of the book
- Identity document
- Letterhead
- Realia (library science)
- Travel document
- Property document
References[edit]
- ^ Briet. 1951. 7. Quoted in Buckland, 1991.
- ^
Levy, D. M. «Fixed or Fluid? Document Stability and New Media.» 1994. In European Conference on Hypertext Technology 1994 Proceedings, pp. 24–31. New York: Association for Computing Machinery. Retrieved 18 October 2011 from
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.119.8813&rep=rep1&type=pdf Archived 2013-06-06 at the Wayback Machine - ^ Buckland, M. «What Is a Digital Document?» 1998. In Document Numérique Paris. 2(2). [1] Archived 2011-10-02 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Buckland, Michael. 2018. «Document theory». Knowledge Organization 45, no. 5: 425-436.
Further reading[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Documents.
- Briet, S. (1951). Qu’est-ce que la documentation? Paris: Documentaires Industrielles et Techniques.
- Buckland, M. (1991). Information and information systems. New York: Greenwood Press.
- Frohmann, Bernd (2009). Revisiting «what is a document?», Journal of Documentation, 65(2), 291–303.
- Hjerppe, R. (1994). A framework for the description of generalized documents. Advances in Knowledge Organization, 4, 173–180.
- Houser, L. (1986). Documents: The domain of library and information science. Library and Information Science Research, 8, 163–188.
- Larsen, P.S. (1999). Books and bytes: Preserving documents for posterity. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 50(11), 1020–1027.
- Lund, N. W. (2008). Document theory. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 43, 399–432.
- Riles, A. (Ed.) (2006). Documents: Artifacts of Modern Knowledge. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI.
- Schamber, L. (1996). What is a document? Rethinking the concept in uneasy times. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 47, 669–671.
- Signer, Beat: What is Wrong with Digital Documents? A Conceptual Model for Structural Cross-Media Content Composition and Reuse, In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2010), Vancouver, Canada, November 2010.
- Smith, Barry. «How to Do Things with Documents», Rivista di Estetica, 50 (2012), 179–198.
- Smith, Barry. «Document Acts», in Anita Konzelmann-Ziv, Hans Bernhard Schmid (eds.), 2013. Institutions, Emotions, and Group Agents.Contributions to Social Ontology (Philosophical Studies Series), Dordrecht: Springer
- Ørom, A. (2007). The concept of information versus the concept of a document. I: Document (re)turn. Contributions from a research field in transition. Ed. By Roswitha Skare, Niels Windfeld Lund & Andreas Vårheim. Frankfurt is Main: Peter Lang. (pp. 53–72).
Noun
It is important to keep all of your financial documents in a safe place.
An important classified document has been leaked to the media.
creating a new document on your computer
I lost the document when the hard drive crashed.
Verb
Her study was the first to document this type of behavior in gorillas.
He wrote a book documenting their struggle.
Can you document the claims you’re making?
The charges are well documented.
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doc·u·ment
(dŏk′yə-mənt)
n.
1.
a. A written or printed paper that bears the original, official, or legal form of something and can be used to furnish decisive evidence or information.
b. Something, such as a recording or a photograph, that can be used to furnish evidence or information.
c. A writing that contains information.
d. Computers A piece of work created with an application, as with a word processor.
e. Computers A computer file that is not an executable file and contains data for use by applications.
2. Something, especially a material substance such as a coin bearing a revealing symbol or mark, that serves as proof or evidence.
tr.v. (-mĕnt′) doc·u·ment·ed, doc·u·ment·ing, doc·u·ments
1. To furnish with a document or documents.
2. To methodically record the details of: «I had thought long and logically about … how to document the patterns of dolphin behavior» (Diana Reiss).
3. To support (an assertion or claim, for example) with evidence or decisive information.
4. To support (statements in a book, for example) with written references or citations; annotate.
[Middle English, precept, from Old French, from Latin documentum, example, proof, from docēre, to teach; see dek- in Indo-European roots.]
doc′u·ment′a·ble (-mĕn′tə-bəl) adj.
doc′u·ment′al (-mĕn′tl) adj.
doc′u·ment′er n.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
document
n
1. a piece of paper, booklet, etc, providing information, esp of an official or legal nature
2. (Computer Science) a piece of text or text and graphics stored in a computer as a file for manipulation by document processing software
3. archaic evidence; proof
vb (tr)
4. (Journalism & Publishing) to record or report in detail, as in the press, on television, etc: the trial was well documented by the media.
5. to support (statements in a book) with citations, references, etc
6. to support (a claim, etc) with evidence or proof
7. (Nautical Terms) to furnish (a vessel) with official documents specifying its ownership, registration, weight, dimensions, and function
[C15: from Latin documentum a lesson, from docēre to teach]
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
doc•u•ment
(n. ˈdɒk yə mənt; v. -ˌmɛnt)
n.
1. 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.
2. any written item, as a book or letter, esp. of a factual or informative nature.
3. a computer data file.
4. Archaic. evidence; proof.
v.t.
5. to furnish with documents.
6. to furnish with references, citations, etc., in support of statements made.
7. to support by documentary evidence: to document a case.
8. to provide (a vessel) with a certificate giving particulars concerning nationality, ownership, tonnage, etc.
9. Obs. to instruct.
[1400–50; late Middle English (< Anglo-French) < Latin documentum example (as precedent, warning, etc.)]
doc′u•ment`a•ble, adj.
doc′u•ment`er, n.
Random House Kernerman Webster’s College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.
document
— First meant «instruction» or «evidence,» whether written or not.
Farlex Trivia Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved.
document
Past participle: documented
Gerund: documenting
| Imperative |
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| document |
| document |
| Present |
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| I document |
| you document |
| he/she/it documents |
| we document |
| you document |
| they document |
| Preterite |
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| I documented |
| you documented |
| he/she/it documented |
| we documented |
| you documented |
| they documented |
| Present Continuous |
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| I am documenting |
| you are documenting |
| he/she/it is documenting |
| we are documenting |
| you are documenting |
| they are documenting |
| Present Perfect |
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| I have documented |
| you have documented |
| he/she/it has documented |
| we have documented |
| you have documented |
| they have documented |
| Past Continuous |
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| I was documenting |
| you were documenting |
| he/she/it was documenting |
| we were documenting |
| you were documenting |
| they were documenting |
| Past Perfect |
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| I had documented |
| you had documented |
| he/she/it had documented |
| we had documented |
| you had documented |
| they had documented |
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| you will document |
| he/she/it will document |
| we will document |
| you will document |
| they will document |
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| I will have documented |
| you will have documented |
| he/she/it will have documented |
| we will have documented |
| you will have documented |
| they will have documented |
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| I will be documenting |
| you will be documenting |
| he/she/it will be documenting |
| we will be documenting |
| you will be documenting |
| they will be documenting |
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| I have been documenting |
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| he/she/it has been documenting |
| we have been documenting |
| you have been documenting |
| they have been documenting |
| Future Perfect Continuous |
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| I will have been documenting |
| you will have been documenting |
| he/she/it will have been documenting |
| we will have been documenting |
| you will have been documenting |
| they will have been documenting |
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| I had been documenting |
| you had been documenting |
| he/she/it had been documenting |
| we had been documenting |
| you had been documenting |
| they had been documenting |
| Conditional |
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| I would document |
| you would document |
| he/she/it would document |
| we would document |
| you would document |
| they would document |
| Past Conditional |
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| I would have documented |
| you would have documented |
| he/she/it would have documented |
| we would have documented |
| you would have documented |
| they would have documented |
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
| Noun | 1. |  document — writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature)
papers, written document piece of writing, written material, writing — the work of a writer; anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect); «the writing in her novels is excellent»; «that editorial was a fine piece of writing» clause, article — a separate section of a legal document (as a statute or contract or will) preamble — a preliminary introduction to a statute or constitution (usually explaining its purpose) ballot — a document listing the alternatives that is used in voting brevet — a document entitling a commissioned officer to hold a higher rank temporarily (but without higher pay) capitulation — a document containing the terms of surrender certificate, credential, credentials, certification — a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts charter — a document incorporating an institution and specifying its rights; includes the articles of incorporation and the certificate of incorporation commercial document, commercial instrument — a document of or relating to commerce confession — a written document acknowledging an offense and signed by the guilty party copyright, right of first publication — a document granting exclusive right to publish and sell literary or musical or artistic work inclosure, enclosure — something (usually a supporting document) that is enclosed in an envelope with a covering letter form — a printed document with spaces in which to write; «he filled out his tax form» legal document, legal instrument, official document, instrument — (law) a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some right papyrus — a document written on papyrus patent, patent of invention — a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention political platform, political program, platform, program — a document stating the aims and principles of a political party; «their candidate simply ignored the party platform»; «they won the election even though they offered no positive program» resignation — a formal document giving notice of your intention to resign; «he submitted his resignation as of next month» resolution, resolve, declaration — a formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote source — a document (or organization) from which information is obtained; «the reporter had two sources for the story» specification — (patent law) a document drawn up by the applicant for a patent of invention that provides an explicit and detailed description of the nature and use of an invention voucher — a document that serves as evidence of some expenditure report, written report, study — a written document describing the findings of some individual or group; «this accords with the recent study by Hill and Dale» |
| 2. | document — anything serving as a representation of a person’s thinking by means of symbolic marks
representation — a creation that is a visual or tangible rendering of someone or something letter, missive — a written message addressed to a person or organization; «mailed an indignant letter to the editor» |
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| 3. | document — a written account of ownership or obligation
communication — something that is communicated by or to or between people or groups letter of credit — a document issued by a bank that guarantees the payment of a customer’s draft; substitutes the bank’s credit for the customer’s credit certificate of indebtedness, debt instrument, obligation — a written promise to repay a debt quittance — a document or receipt certifying release from an obligation or debt record — a document that can serve as legal evidence of a transaction; «they could find no record of the purchase» |
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| 4. | document — (computer science) a computer file that contains text (and possibly formatting instructions) using seven-bit ASCII characters
text file computer science, computing — the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures web page, webpage — a document connected to the World Wide Web and viewable by anyone connected to the internet who has a web browser computer file — (computer science) a file maintained in computer-readable form ASCII text file — a text file that contains only ASCII characters without special formatting |
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| Verb | 1. | document — record in detail; «The parents documented every step of their child’s development»
record, enter, put down — make a record of; set down in permanent form |
| 2. | document — support or supply with references; «Can you document your claims?»
affirm, confirm, corroborate, substantiate, support, sustain — establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts; «his story confirmed my doubts»; «The evidence supports the defendant» source — specify the origin of; «The writer carefully sourced her report» |
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document
verb
1. support, back up, certify, verify, detail, instance, validate, substantiate, corroborate, authenticate, give weight to, particularize The effects of smoking have been well documented.
Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002
Translations
dokumentdokumentovat
dokument
asiakirjadokumentoidadokumenttikirjata
dokument
okirat
skjalskjal; málskjal
文書
문서
dokumentasdokumentinisdokumentinis filmas
dokuments
dokument
listinaspis
dokument
เอกสาร
tài liệu
Collins Spanish Dictionary — Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
document
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
document
[n ˈdɒkjʊmənt; vb ˈdɒkjʊmɛnt]
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
document
(ˈdokjumənt) noun
a written statement giving information, proof, evidence etc. She signed several legal documents relating to the sale of her house.
ˌdocuˈmentary (-ˈmen-) adjective
of or found in documents. documentary evidence.
noun – plural docuˈmentaries –
a film, programme etc giving information on a certain subject. a documentary on the political situation in Argentina.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
document
→ مُسْتَنَد dokument dokument Dokument έγγραφο documento asiakirja document dokument documento 文書 문서 document dokument dokument documento документ dokument เอกสาร belge tài liệu 文件
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document
n. documento;
___ record → ___ del expediente.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
- I want to copy this document
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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.
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.
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Origin of document
1400–50; late Middle English (<Anglo-French ) <Latin documentum example (as precedent, warning, etc.), equivalent to doc- (stem of docēre to teach) + -u- (variant of -i--i- before labials) + -mentum-ment
OTHER WORDS FROM document
doc·u·ment·a·ble [dok-yuh-men-tuh-buhl, dok-yuh—men-], /ˈdɒk yəˌmɛn tə bəl, ˌdɒk yəˈmɛn-/, adjectivedoc·u·ment·er, nounnon·doc·u·ment·ed, adjective, nounre·doc·u·ment, verb (used with object)
well-doc·u·ment·ed, adjective
Words nearby document
doctrinaire, doctrinal, doctrine, doctrine of descent, docudrama, document, documentalist, documentarian, documentary, documentation, document reader
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Words related to document
archive, certificate, diary, evidence, form, paper, record, report, script, testimony, chronicle, cite, detail, credentials, deed, instrument, language, pages, token, catalog
How to use document in a sentence
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According to CNN, the city released some 325 pages of documents on Monday, detailing the extent to which officials went to try and control the narrative around Prude’s death.
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In January of this year, a Harvard Berkman Klein Center review of 36 of the most prominent documents guiding national and company AI strategies found eight common themes—among them privacy, safety, fairness, and explainability.
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The rates for the extra suites ranged from $142 to $283 per night, according to the documents.
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According to the department’s standard operating procedures document, the department had previously used the system to identify “work-related problematic behavioral patterns among members.”
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The proposal would guarantee free public access to judicial documents, ending the current practice of charging 10 cents per page for many documents—as well as search results.
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A second document was titled: “Gambia Reborn: A Charter for Transition from Dictatorship to Democracy and Development.”
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I am not the first or last person to document the hip-hop scene in Cuba.
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Normal procedure is that any member country can request that a document be circulated, and the UN does it pro-forma.
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This is both an outstanding work of scholarship and a commanding visual document.
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The document said Wright was condescending and had “resorted to name-calling,” though no examples were offered.
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The Empress had shewn herself too entirely prejudiced, to have been affected by any document he could have presented.
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“Lecompton” constitution of Kansas was a pro-slavery document which Buchanan favoured.
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The Assistant Commissioner, hand pressed to brow, began to study a document which lay before him.
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Decollat,” says a contemporary document, with a grim succinctness, “in castrum Londin: vulgo turris appellatur.
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One of them snarls quietly out of a long document about the Statement of Claim.
British Dictionary definitions for document
noun (ˈdɒkjʊmənt)
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 (ˈdɒkjʊˌmɛnt) (tr)
to record or report in detail, as in the press, on television, etcthe 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
Word Origin for document
C15: from Latin documentum a lesson, from docēre to teach
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Defenition of the word document
- Material of any kind, regardless of physical form, which furnishes information, evidence or ideas, including items such as contracts, bills of sale, letters, audio and video recordings, and machine readable data files.
- To record in documents.
- To support or supply with references.
- anything serving as a representation of a person’s thinking by means of symbolic marks
- a written account of ownership or obligation
- support with evidence; «Can you document your claims?»
- record in detail; «The parents documented every step of their child’s development»
- writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature)
- (computer science) a computer file that contains text (and possibly formatting instructions) using 7-bit ASCII characters
- anything serving as a representation of a person»s thinking by means of symbolic marks
- support or supply with references; «Can you document your claims?»
- record in detail; «The parents documented every step of their child»s development»
- (computer science) a computer file that contains text (and possibly formatting instructions) using seven-bit ASCII characters
- support or supply with references
- record in detail
Synonyms for the word document
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- article
- authenticate
- certificate
- deed
- detail
- essay
- file
- give proof
- keep a record
- manuscript
- paper
- papers
- provide evidence
- record
- text
- text file
- verify
- write down
- written document
Similar words in the document
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- document
- document’s
- documentaries
- documentation
- documentation’s
- documented
- documenting
- documents
Meronymys for the word document
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- article
- clause
- preamble
Hyponyms for the word document
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- articles of incorporation
- ASCII text file
- ballot
- brevet
- capitualtion
- capitulation
- certificate
- certificate of indebtedness
- certification
- charter
- commercial document
- commercial instrument
- confession
- copyright
- credential
- credentials
- debt instrument
- declaration
- enclosure
- form
- inclosure
- instrument
- legal document
- legal instrument
- letter
- letter of credit
- missive
- obligation
- official document
- papyrus
- patent
- patent of invention
- platform
- political platform
- political program
- program
- quittance
- record
- report
- resignation
- resolution
- resolve
- right of first publication
- source
- specification
- study
- voucher
- web page
- webpage
- written report
Hypernyms for the word document
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- affirm
- communication
- computer file
- confirm
- corroborate
- enter
- piece of writing
- put down
- record
- representation
- substantiate
- support
- sustain
- writing
- written material
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