What's the difference between commemorate and record?

Commemorate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To call to remembrance by a special act or observance; to celebrate with honor and solemnity; to honor, as a person or event, by some act of respect or affection, intended to preserve the remembrance of the person or event; as, to commemorate the sufferings and dying love of our Savior by the sacrament of the Lord's Supper; to commemorate the Declaration of Independence by the observance of the Fourth of July.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Two days after Michael Morpurgo, author of War Horse , published a beautiful essay calling for this year's First World War commemorations to " honour those who died " and "celebrate the peace we now share", Michael Gove has delivered the government's response.
  • (2) With gratitude and rejoice, we commemorate the return to International arena.
  • (3) We like to commemorate the end of the conflict but the Great War is different and unique in modern history and it is appropriate that we should give some thought as to why Britain and her family went to war."
  • (4) His rise to office came a day after meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin at D-day commemoration ceremonies in France.
  • (5) The commemoration began when the clock on the neo-gothic Town Hall struck 12, and a maroon was fired from the roof.
  • (6) As well as commemorating King's famous speech, the march aims to call attention to issues affecting America today, including unemployment, voting rights, gun violence, women's rights and immigration reform.
  • (7) The museum is also planning a "new major exhibition" in Manchester and boasts of leading a global network of more than 1,600 cultural and educational organisations for the commemorations, due to run until 2018.
  • (8) That’s why we are breaking the silence by inviting women such as Bakira Hasečić , president of the Association of Women Victims of War and a survivor of genocidal rape, to speak about their experiences at commemorations in the UK.
  • (9) Almost 300 survivors of the Nazi German concentration and extermination camps at Auschwitz gather on Tuesday to mark the 70th anniversary of their liberation, in what for many will be the last such commemoration.
  • (10) They commemorate – sometimes no more questioningly than a press release – a new novel or stage play or film, before disappearing into production-company vaults.
  • (11) Women on 20s said it began the competition to commemorate the 100th anniversary of women earning the right to vote in 1920.
  • (12) The shirt commemorates a piece of Orwellian newspeak that flew from the lips of Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday.
  • (13) But pressure has also been building from different sources for the commemorations to take on particular approaches.
  • (14) Holocaust survivors and government officials have gathered at the memorial site of the former concentration camp Bergen-Belsen in northern Germany , in a solemn ceremony to commemorate the liberation of the camp 70 years ago.
  • (15) Oscar Wilde's grave in Paris has put up with a lot in its first century - the flying angel headstone has been castrated (twice), commemorative candles have scorched the front, and multilingual graffiti are regularly scrawled over the tomb.
  • (16) Last year, Hastings indicted Gove's boss David Cameron for sucking up to the Germans intolerably over events commemorate the centenary of the start of the first world war.
  • (17) Freeman was awarded an MBE in 1998 and over the years picked up an assortment of prestigious gongs for his radio work, including the Sony awards radio personality of the year in 1987, the Radio Academy's outstanding contribution to UK music radio award in 1988, and a special Sony award in May 2000 commemorating 40 years of service to broadcasting.
  • (18) As a small group of Abbado's relatives, including two of his children, looked on, Barenboim, La Scala's current music director, appeared quietly moved as the commemorative performance ended after about 20 minutes to dignified applause from the piazza.
  • (19) The Holocaust Memorial Day commemorations will be launched in the UK at King's Cross station on Monday, less than a mile from where the rally is expected to take place.
  • (20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest It was feared violent protests would take place during the 10th anniversary of the 2005 Cronulla riots, but the commemoration ended with a barbecue attended by just 50 people .

Record


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate.
  • (v. t.) To repeat; to recite; to sing or play.
  • (v. t.) To preserve the memory of, by committing to writing, to printing, to inscription, or the like; to make note of; to write or enter in a book or on parchment, for the purpose of preserving authentic evidence of; to register; to enroll; as, to record the proceedings of a court; to record historical events.
  • (v. i.) To reflect; to ponder.
  • (v. i.) To sing or repeat a tune.
  • (v. t.) A writing by which some act or event, or a number of acts or events, is recorded; a register; as, a record of the acts of the Hebrew kings; a record of the variations of temperature during a certain time; a family record.
  • (v. t.) An official contemporaneous writing by which the acts of some public body, or public officer, are recorded; as, a record of city ordinances; the records of the receiver of taxes.
  • (v. t.) An authentic official copy of a document which has been entered in a book, or deposited in the keeping of some officer designated by law.
  • (v. t.) An official contemporaneous memorandum stating the proceedings of a court of justice; a judicial record.
  • (v. t.) The various legal papers used in a case, together with memoranda of the proceedings of the court; as, it is not permissible to allege facts not in the record.
  • (v. t.) Testimony; witness; attestation.
  • (v. t.) That which serves to perpetuate a knowledge of acts or events; a monument; a memorial.
  • (v. t.) That which has been, or might be, recorded; the known facts in the course, progress, or duration of anything, as in the life of a public man; as, a politician with a good or a bad record.
  • (v. t.) That which has been publicly achieved in any kind of competitive sport as recorded in some authoritative manner, as the time made by a winning horse in a race.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Steady-state values of cell, glucose, and cellulase concentration oxygen tension, and outlet gas oxygen partial pressure were recorded.
  • (2) Lucy and Ed will combine coverage of hard and breaking news with a commitment to investigative journalism, which their track record so clearly demonstrates”.
  • (3) Microionophoretically applied excitatory amino acids induced firing of extracellularly recorded single units in a tissue slice preparation of the mouse cochlear nucleus, and the similarly applied antagonist 2-amino-5-phosphonovalerate (2APV) was demonstrated to be a selective N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist.
  • (4) The inquiry found the law enforcement agencies routinely fail to record the professions of those whose communications data records they access under Ripa.
  • (5) Phenotypic relationships were examined between final score and 13 type appraisal traits and first lactation milk yield from 2935 Ayrshire, 3154 Brown Swiss, 13,110 Guernsey, 50,422 Jersey, and 924 Milking Shorthorn records.
  • (6) Completeness of isolation of the coronary and systemic circulations was shown by the marked difference in appearance times between the reflex hypotensive responses from catecholamine injections into the isolated coronary circulation and the direct hypertensive response from a similar injection when the circulations were connected as well as by the marked difference between the pressure pulses recorded simultaneously on both sides of the aortic balloon separating the two circulations.4.
  • (7) Subjects then rested supine until 10.00 h when blood was again taken, and blood pressure recorded.
  • (8) Sewel is also recorded complaining about the level of appearance allowances at the House of Lords .
  • (9) A mean difference for individual patients between the first and second recording within 5 mm Hg was observed in 49.3% and 52.1% of patients for 24-hour systolic and diastolic blood pressure, respectively.
  • (10) In the upper limb and facial forms of familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy first recorded in Swiss and Finns respectively, the differences in their patterns of neurological disease and ocular lesions could be the result of their amyloids deriving from proteins other than prealbumin.
  • (11) Since 1979, patients started on long-term lithium treatment at the Psychiatric Hospital in Risskov have been followed systematically with recording of clinical and laboratory variables before the start of treatment, after 6 and 12 months of treatment, and thereafter at yearly intervals.
  • (12) Polygraphic recordings during sleep were performed on 18 elderly persons (age range: 64-100 years).
  • (13) Richard Hill, deputy chief executive at the Homes & Communities Agency , said: "As social businesses, housing associations already have a good record of re-investing their surpluses to build new homes and improve those of their existing tenants.
  • (14) Several dimensions of the outcome of 86 schizophrenic patients were recorded 1 year after discharge from inpatient index-treatment to complete a prospective study concerning the course of illness (rehospitalization, symptoms, employment and social contacts).
  • (15) Even if it were not the case that police use a variety of tricks to keep recorded crime figures low, this data would still represent an almost meaningless measure of the extent of crime in society, for the simple reason that a huge proportion of crimes (of almost all sorts) have always gone unreported.
  • (16) The records of 148 geriatric patients discharged from the Royal Ottawa Hospital over an 18-month period were studied.
  • (17) It is suitable either for brief sampling of AP durations when recording with microelectrodes, which may impale cells intermittently, or for continuous monitoring, as with suction electrodes on intact beating hearts in situ.
  • (18) The records of all patients treated for thymoma in the Department of Radiotherapy of the University of Torino between 1970 and 1988 were reviewed.
  • (19) Both of these species belong to the serotype B. MCAs T11 and T15, the first recorded with a specificity for only sub-serotype A2 EF, were tested further against 28 sub-serotype A2 and three sub-serotype A2B2EFs from L. tropica strains.
  • (20) The time to make the decision and the total time are automatically recorded.