American English pronunciation
How to pronounce documents
IPA transcription: ['dɑkjəmənts]
Pronunciation variants: ['dɑkjəmənts]['dɑkjumənts]
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Noun
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writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature)
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anything serving as a representation of a person's thinking by means of symbolic marks
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a written account of ownership or obligation
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(computer science) a computer file that contains text (and possibly formatting instructions) using seven-bit ASCII characters
Verb
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record in detail
“The parents documented every step of their child's development”
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support or supply with references
“Can you document your claims?”
Usage examples
- It was historically used for writing documents, notes, or the pages of a book.
- However no event was ever recorded in public documents.
- The ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs was sentenced for forging documents authenticating the cargo.
- Where's my bag of documents?
- Word wrap formatting helps text documents read clearer.
- In this context, especially in older documents, it is sometimes called a pole.
- He based his findings on school records, migration patterns, military-service documents and economic trends.
- This film depicts horrific scientific experiments performed on prisoners based on actual documents.
- The ability to import scanned documents was removed.
- His name never showed up in any ownership documents.