Document

Definition: Document

Document

Noun

1. Writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature).

2. Anything serving as a representation of a person's thinking by means of symbolic marks.

3. A written account of ownership or obligation.

4. (computer science) a computer file that contains text (and possibly formatting instructions) using 7-bit ASCII characters.

Verb

1. Record in detail; "The parents documented every step of their child's development".

2. Support with evidence; "Can you document your claims?".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "document" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1385. (references)

Computing

Finance

Law

Public Administration

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Document

Evidence

Admission; (assent); authority, warrant, credential, diploma, voucher, certificate, doquet, docket; testamur; record; document; pi

Record

Record, note, minute; register, registry; roll; (list); cartulary, diptych, Domesday book; catalogue raisonne; entry, memorandum, indorsement, inscription, copy, duplicate, docket; notch; (mark); muniment, deed; (security); document; deposition, proces verbal; affidavit; certificate; (evidence).

Crosswords: Document

Catalan (document, paper), Dutch (act, certificate, diploma, document, paper), French (bill, certificate, cramp, deed, diploma, document, file, paper, proxy, record, script), Romanian (act, bill, charter, deed, document, file, indenture, muniment, paper, record, title, writ), Spanish (document).

I want this picture to be a document. I want to hold a mirror up to life (Sullivan's Travels; writing credit: Preston Sturges)

Eat the Document (1972)

Le Document secret (1918)

Flashing on the Sixties: A Tribal Document (1990)

Document of the Dead (1989)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Document Sciences Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Xionics Document Technologies, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Document Management Software in Australia: A Strategic Entry Report, 1999 (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Basics of Legal Document Preparation (reference)

• Designing a Document Strategy (reference)

• Document Object Model : Processing Structured Documents (reference)

• Dynamics in Document Design: Creating Text for Readers (reference)

• Learn Word 2000 VBA Document Automation (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Babt Document Subscription Service (reference)

• Document Datawarehouse (reference)

• Document Imaging Report (reference)

• Document Management In Banking (reference)

• European Document Series (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Document of the Dead (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Document (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• The Document of Metal Gear Solid (reference)

• 3M Monitor Mount Document Holder (reference)

• DOCUMENT CLIP 2 WAY ADJUSTABLE (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Tracey Collier of NMFS dissects a flounder and removes bile to document exposure to oil. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

A NOAA scientist prepares a camera to document the transplant process at one of the sites. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Figures 1 and 2, Oculina robusta Pourtales. Figures 3 and 4, Oculina varicosa Leseuer. Figures 5-7, Astrocoenia pectinata Pourtales. In: "Report on the Florida Reefs", 1880, by Louis Agassiz. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, Vol. VII, No. 1. Plate II. These plates help document the oldest studies of the Florida Reefs. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

Figures 1-10, Mycedium fragile Dana. Figures 11-13, Agaricia agaricites Milne-Edw. and Haime. Siderastraea galaxea Milne-Edw. and Haime. In: "Report on the Florida Reefs", 1880, by Louis Agassiz. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, Vol. VII, No. 1. Plate XI. These plates help document the oldest studies of the Florida Reefs. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

Title page to "Explanations and Sailing Directions to Accompany the Wind and Current Charts ...." The very first bathymetric map of an oceanic basin was published in this document. This image was obtained through the courtesy of the United States Naval Observatory Gilliss Library. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Plate 3. Title page of the guide to German instruments at the International Oceanographic and Marine Fisheries Exposition of 1906. A description of Apstein's mud sampling tube was found in this document. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

East elevation. Photograph by Walter Smalling, Jr., March 1980. (Reproduction Number: HABS, FL,13-MIAM,16-1) The southern end of Miami Beach contains a rich collection of Art Deco architecture, the most famous of which are a series of small hotels facing towards the beach. Larger and more flamboyant hotels were built after World War II as Miami Beach expanded to the north. By the late 1970s, development pressures threatened the Art Deco district. A group of local citizens recognized the uniqueness of the area and sought to preserve the architectural heritage the buildings represented. One of their approaches was to have HABS document the district in large format photographs. Those photographs were widely published and helped to generate national interest in the Art Deco district. Today, many of the buildings were restored to their original splendor as the area has been revitalized and once again become popular. Credit: Library of Congress.

Rear Admiral William C. Wyatt, Supervisor of Shipbuilding at Pascagoula, Mississippi, signs the document accepting the ship from her builders, in ceremonies on board Fletcher at the Ingalls shipyard, 16 June 1980 . Looking on are Commander Steven C. Saulnier, the ship's Prospective Commanding Officer (2nd from right), Ingalls Shipbuilding President Len Erb (2nd from left) and George M. Nall (left), an Ingalls shipfitter who had worked on all thirty Spruance class destroyers and represented the entire Ingalls workforce at the ceremony. Fletcher was the final ship of the original thirty in that class. Credit: NAVY.

Japanese Navy Captain Masanori Shiga signs the surrender document for Mili Atoll, Marshalls, on board USS Levy (DE-162), 22 August 1945. To the right of Capt. Shiga are (left to right): Lieutenant E.R. Harris, USNR; Lieutenant Colonel G.V. Burnett, USMCR, and Captain H. B. Grow, USNR, senior U.S. officer present. Credit: NAVY.

Woman signing document in office while younger woman and seated man watch. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

For the purpose of providing documents of title for the ships and boats to be handed over as above mentioned, the German Government will: (a) Deliver to the Reparation Commission in respect of each vessel a bill of sale or other document of title evidencing the transfer to the Commission of the entire property in the vessel free from all encumbrances, charges and liens of all kinds, as the Commission may require; (b) Take all measures that may be indicated by the Reparation Commission for ensuring that the ships themselves shall be placed at its disposal. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

The following definitions are used in this document. (references)

Monitoring in this document refers to the use of electronic devices. (references)

Request document number 000005 for a directory of all available travel faxes. (references)

Business

Copies of this document can be obtained from the following agency. (references)

The basic Mexican import document is the "pedimiento de importacion". (references)

The JSOP, a classified document, in effect, outlines the JCS acquisition needs. (references)

Children

Latvia

In 1998 the Cabinet adopted a framework document entitled "Equal Opportunity for Everyone," which was designed to coordinate the efforts of all branches of Government in assisting persons with disabilities; however, lack of funding has limited its effectiveness. (references)

Civil Liberties

Cuba

The doctors made the document public. (references)

Uzbekistan

Every citizen must carry such a document when traveling inside or outside the country. (references)

Economic History

Ireland

Each party is entitled to a written document setting out the terms of their contract. (references)

Croatia

The strategy document is available in English on the Internet website: www.croatia21.hr. (references)

Qatar

Bids should be in Arabic unless the tender document specifically indicates that English is required. (references)

Human Rights

Ukraine

An appeals court may dismiss a conviction or order a new trial if this document is missing. (references)

United Kingdom

If judges decide to convict, they must justify the decision in a document that becomes part of the court record. (references)

Kyrgyz Republic

Since the September 11 terrorist attacks in the U.S., the Government has conducted widespread document checks of some foreigners. (references)

Minorities

Russia

In Moscow such persons were subjected to far more frequent document checks than others and frequently were detained or fined in excess of permissible penalties. (references)

Bhutan

They claim that many ethnic Nepalese whose families have been in the country for generations were expelled because they were unable to document their claims to residence. (references)

Cote d'Ivoire

Members of northern ethnic groups that are found in neighboring countries as well as in the country often are required to document their citizenship, whereas members of historically or currently politically powerful ethnic groups of the south and west reportedly do not have this problem. (references)

Political Economy

BULGARIA

Bulgaria uses the single customs administrative document used by European Community members. (references)

HUNGARY

Importers must file a customs document (VAM 91 form) with a product declaration and code number, obtained from the Central Statistical Office. (references)

UKRAINE

A new Budget Code passed in March 2001 calls for further reform of the budget process and will be the guiding document for the formation of the 2002 budget. (references)

Political Rights

Dominican Republic

Voting is restricted to those who can document nationality. (references)

Guatemala

Several campaigns exist to document citizens, particularly among the illiterate. (references)

Croatia

However, in 2000 the Government failed to ensure that many Croatian Serbs, who fled in 1995 and who wished to assume the responsibilities of Croatian citizenship, could document their Croatian citizenship in order to vote and ultimately to return. (references)

Trade

Luxembourg

This is not a mandatory document. (references)

Luxembourg

Neither document is required in Luxembourg. (references)

Romania

The exporter has to submit the document to ANCESIAC. (references)

Travel

Ghana

Several business centers in the major cities provide communication and document preparation services at a nominal fee. (references)

Saudi Arabia

A document and/or a participation agreement is needed to ascertain that the owner of the goods is officially participating in a trade show. (references)

Kuwait

Written translation from English to Arabic text or vice versa costs approximately US$17.00 per document up to a maximum of 350 words per document. (references)

Women

Afghanistan

It was difficult to document rapes, in particular, in view of the social stigma that surrounds rape. (references)

Botswana

The Women's Affairs Department of the Ministry of Labor and Home Affairs, in conjunction with the U.N. Development Program, developed the Program Support Document (PSD) in 1997, which provides a framework for implementation of the national policy on women through 2002. Its five target areas include: (1) institutional strengthening at the national level, (2) advocacy and social mobilization, (3) institutional strengthening of NGO's, (4) research and information sharing, and (5) economic empowerment. (references)

Worker Rights

Korea

Police also arrested another suspected trafficker who admitted document fraud for international travel. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "document": abridged document ♦ affix a seal to a document ♦ affix one's signature to a document ♦ attested document ♦ authentic document ♦ authenticated document ♦ Belvedere Policy Document ♦ business document ♦ certified document ♦ columns in document mode ♦ commercial document ♦ compound Document Architecture ♦ document application profile ♦ document bill ♦ document content architecture ♦ document copies required quantity ♦ document Examiner ♦ document Image Processing ♦ document Object Model ♦ document official ♦ document originals required quantity ♦ document status code ♦ document structure ♦ document Style Semantics and Specification Language ♦ document surrogate ♦ document template ♦ document Type Definition ♦ draft document ♦ dynamics of a document ♦ electronic document interchange ♦ enhanced document processing ♦ extended document processing ♦ genuine document ♦ here document ♦ historical document ♦ legal document ♦ merged document ♦ multiple Document Interface ♦ number of copies of document required ♦ number of originals of document required ♦ Office Document Architecture ♦ official document ♦ open Document Architecture ♦ open Document Interchange Format ♦ open Document Management API ♦ original document ♦ patent document ♦ piloting of the office document architecture ♦ portable Document Format ♦ Profile Alignment Group for office document architecture ♦ refer to a document ♦ registration document ♦ relaxation of a document ♦ renunciation document ♦ sealed document ♦ set one's hand to a document ♦ shipping document ♦ sight document ♦ sign a document ♦ simplification of a document ♦ single Document Interface ♦ source document ♦ specific document instance ♦ standard document editor ♦ supporting document ♦ testamentary document ♦ traffic document ♦ travel document ♦ turnaround document ♦ type out a document ♦ VAX DOCUMENT ♦ vehicle registration document ♦ Within the above restrictions the distribution of this document is ♦ witness a document ♦ written document. Additional references.

Beginning with "document": document-based, document-driven, document-faking, document-handling, document-holder, document-holders, document-led, document-nursery, document-ordering, document-oriented, document-passing, document-retrieval, document-wallet.

Ending with "document": anti-document, inter-document, JTM-document, multi-document, non-document, quasi-document, travel-document.

Afrikaans

dokument (paper). (various references)

Albanian

akt (act, action, certificate, diploma, doing, fact, proceedings, turn). (various references)

Arabic 

‏وثيقة (bill, deed, instrument, paper, proxy, record, script), ‏وثق (authenticate, believe, confide, constrain, corroborate, notarize, pin one's faith on, rely, trust), ‏حجة (allegation, argument, case, excuse, instrument, plea, pretence, pretension, pretext, proofing, reasoning), ‏دعم بالوثائق. (various references)

Asturian

documentu. (various references)

Bemba

icipepala. (various references)

Bulgarian 

удостоверение (certificate), свидетелство (certificate, diploma, testimonial, testimony, ticket, warrant, witness), снабдявам с документи, подкрепям с факти, документирам, документ (act, certificate, exhibit, instrument, monument, muniment, paper, parchment, record). (various references)

Catalan

document (paper). (various references)

Cebuano

dokumento. (various references)

Chamorro

dokumento. (various references)

Chinese 

文件 (file). (various references)

Czech

dokumentovat, dokument (Doc), doklad (certificate), listina (act, charter, deed, list, roll). (various references)

Danish

dokument (paper). (various references)

Dutch

akte (act, certificate, diploma, paper, testimony), stuk (act, article, beautiful woman, beauty, brick, broken, certificate, damaged, diploma, fragment, lump, out of order, paper, part, Parthian, piece, piece of music, play, share, theatre play), document (act, certificate, diploma, paper). (various references)

Esperanto

dokumento (paper), akto (act, certificate, diploma). (various references)

Faeroese

skjal. (various references)

Farsi 

ملاک (Criterion, Evidence, Landlord, Landowner, Lord, Proprietor), مدرک (Clue, Lead, Proof, Testimony, Voucher), سندیت دادن , سند (Act, Bill, Deed, Instrument, Script, Title, Voucher, Writ), دستاویز (Excuse, Pretext, Voucher). (various references)

Finnish

asiakirja (deed, instrument). (various references)

French

document (specific document instance), titre, documenter, acte. (various references)

Frisian

dokumint (paper). (various references)

German

urkunde (act, certificate, charter, deed, diploma, instrument, paper, parchment, schedule, titledeed), dokument (deed, documents, paper, record, scripture), dokumentieren (documenting, record, reveal), Unterlage (base, bed, drawsheet, Mount, pad, record, substratum, underlay), beleg (evidence, instance, piece of evidence, proof, receipt, reference, sign, slip, token, voucher), Akte (act, certificate, diploma, dossier, file, paper, record). (various references)

Greek 

έγγραφο (deed, enrol, paper, record, writing). (various references)

Hawaiian

akt (act, certificate, diploma). (various references)

Hebrew 

מסמך (certificate, diploma, instrument, paper, voucher), לתעד, תעודה (attestation, bill, certificate, credential, diploma, documentary, record, report, ticket), שטר (banknote, bill, bond, deed, promissory note, vexcel, writ), אגרת (deed, despatch, dispatch, edict, epistle, letter, lettercard, missive, note, writ), כתב (bill, correspondent, reporter, script, scripture, write, writing), ניר (paper, stationery). (various references)

Hungarian

dokumentum (paper), okmány (munition, paper, record), ügyirat (file, paper). (various references)

Icelandic

skírteini (act, certificate, diploma), þáttur (act, certificate, diploma). (various references)

Indonesian

dokumen (papers), mendokumentasikan, mendokumentasi, bukti (evidence, proof). (various references)

Inuktitut

titiraksimajuq. (various references)

Italian

documento (act, bill, certificate, deed, diploma, file, indent, paper, record, scripture, writ, writing), atto (act, action, apt, certificate, deed, diploma, feat, gesture, motion, record), documentare (authenticate, gather information, record), azione (achievement, act, action, certificate, deed, diploma, doing, exertion, feat, motion, operation, play, prise, prize, process, share, stock). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

誌 (magazine, records), 記録　 (minutes, record), 記録 (minutes, record), ドイツ連邦共和国 (a do-it-yourself store, cancel at the last minute, Debussy, dock, docking, doctor, doctor course, doctrine, documental, documentary, documentary drama, documentation, dodecaphony, dodge ball, doeskin, dog racing, dogfight, doggie bag, dogma, dogmatic, dogmatism, dogmatist, doily, do-it-yourself, dominant, domino, donor, doom, doo-wop, dot, dot map, dot matrix, dot printer, dwell, dwelling, Federal Republic of Germany, referee's stop, thud, to be noisy, to make noise, yakuza sword), 文書 (archives, letter, note, records, writing), 書面 (letter), 書札 (letter, note), 書付 (bill, note, paper). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ドキュメント , きろく (minutes, record), しょさつ (book, letter, note), しょめん (letter), ぶんしょ (archives, branch office, letter, note, records, substation, writing), かきつけ (bill, note, paper), もんじょ (archives, letter, note, records, writing), し (arbitrariness, below, calling card, city, civil service, death, decease, extravagance, four, luxury, magazine, master, next, official, offspring, one's mentor, order, poem, pride, recollect, records, relish, remember, selfishness, sequence, show a liking for, teacher, the Reverend, times, verse of poetry). (various references)

Korean 

문서. (various references)

Macedonian

dokument. (various references)

Manx

screeuyn (brief, chitty, epistle, inscription, legend, letter, lettering, missive, note, notes, script), screeu (documentation, inscribe, pen, scribe, write, write in), niartaghey lesh docamad, docamad. (various references)

Norwegian

dokument (paper). (various references)

Papiamen

dokumento (paper), akto (accomplishment, achievement, act, action, certificate, diploma). (various references)

Pig Latin

ocumentday.(various references)

Portuguese

documento (copy, deed, muniment, recommendation). (various references)

Romanian

dovadã (argument, certificate, demonstration, eduction, evidence, example, exercise, instance, Mark, patent, proof, seal, sign, token, vestige, witness), documenta (found, post up), document (act, bill, charter, deed, file, indenture, muniment, paper, record, title, writ), furniza documente, baza pe documente, act (act, deed). (various references)

Russian 

документ (binders, conveyance, docs., instrument, legal instrument, paper, record, title-deed, writing). (various references)

Samoan

pepa (paper, pepper). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

dokumentovati, dokument (indenture), spis (case, text, writing), potkrepiti dokumentima, isprava. (various references)

Spanish

documento (exhibit, paper, record), documentar (authenticate). (various references)

Swedish

dokument (bumf, deed, docs, documents, paper), urkund (act, charter, record), handling (accomplishment, achievement, act, acta, action, actionable, deed, paper, story), aktstycke (act, certificate, diploma), akt (act, attention, ceremony, nude, paper). (various references)

Tahitian

parau (bill, speak, speech, written document). (various references)

Thai

ใช้เอกสารประกอบ, เอกสาร (memorandum). (various references)

Turkish

belge (brief, card, certificate, deed, instrument, letter, muniment, note, paper, present, record, reference, sheepskin, voucher). (various references)

Turkmen 

dokument (r). (various references)

Ukrainian

застереження (admonishment, admonition, caution, caveat, clause, condition, lesson, notification, provision, qualification, reservation, restriction, salvo, warning), забезпечувати (assure, ensure, feed, fit out, fix out, furnish, nourish, provide), документувати, документ (act, chart, paper, source, writing), доказ (argument, attest, authority, averment, clue, confirmation, eviction, evidence, probate, proof, substantiation, testimony, witness). (various references)

Vietnamese 

văn kiện, tư liệu (morgue), tài liệu (advance, bumf, data, information, material). (various references)

Welsh

dogfennu, dogfen. (various references)

documentum, instrumenta, instrumentem, tabellae. (various references)

bulla. (various references)

document. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "document": documentable, documental, documentalist, documentalists, documentarian, documentarians, documentaries, documentarily, documentarist, documentarists, documentary, documentation, documentational, documentations, documented, documenter, documenters, documenting, documents. (additional references)

Words ending with "document": overdocument. (additional references)

Words containing "document": nondocumentaries, nondocumentary, overdocumented, overdocumenting, overdocuments, semidocumentaries, semidocumentary, undocumented. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Document" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: doccument, dociment, docment, doctment, documant, documatic, documen, dokumente, Doumenc, Tocumen. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: counted, demount, mounted.

-2 letters: centum, docent.

-3 letters: cento, centu, coden, comet, comte, coned, conte, coted, coude, count, demon, donut, douce, dunce, educt, monde, monte, mound, mount, muted, muton, noted, notum, odeum, ounce, outed, toned, tuned, unmet.

-4 letters: cent, code, coed, come, cone, cote, cued, cute, deco, demo, dent, dome, done, dote, doum, duce, duct.

+1 letter: documents.

+2 letters: comminuted, documental, documented, documenter, miscounted, undomestic.

+3 letters: consummated, countermand, debouchment, documentary, documenters, documenting, endothecium, uncommitted, uncompleted.

+4 letters: communicated, countermands, countermined, countermoved, debouchments, denouncement, documentable, misconducted, misconstrued, miseducation, overdocument, reductionism, unaccustomed, undemocratic, undocumented.

+5 letters: coastguardmen, counterdemand, countermanded, countermelody, decamethonium, denouncements, documentalist, documentarian, documentaries, documentarily, documentarist, documentation, eudaemonistic, malfunctioned, medicamentous, miseducations, misfunctioned, mononucleated, overdocuments, reductionisms, semiconductor, uncompensated, uncomplicated, unconsummated.