transitive verb.
To narrate or record.
noun.
A learning or knowing by inquiry; the knowledge of facts and events, so obtained; hence, a formal statement of such information; a narrative; a description; a written record
noun.
A systematic, written account of events, particularly of those affecting a nation, institution, science, or art, and usually connected with a philosophical explanation of their causes; a true story, as distinguished from a romance; -- distinguished also from annals, which relate simply the facts and events of each year, in strict chronological order; from biography, which is the record of an individual's life; and from memoir, which is history composed from personal experience, observation, and memory.
noun.
a representation in painting, drawing, etc., of any real event, including the actors and the action.
noun.
a description and classification of objects in nature, as minerals, plants, animals, etc., and the phenomena which they exhibit to the senses.