The meaning of Documentary

noun

A collection of historical documents or records providing information about a place, institution, or group of people.

Usage examples:

Source materials in local archives

verb

Place or store (something) in an archive.

Usage examples:

The challenges involved in displaying and archiving information on the web are huge and the move to…

noun

The documents showing the history of a place, organization, or family, or the place where these are kept

Usage examples:

The author’s manuscripts are in the college archives., i’m doing some archival research on my famil…

verb

Place or store (something) in an archive.

Usage examples:

The challenges involved in displaying and archiving information on the web are huge and the move to…

noun

A collection of historical documents or records providing information about a place, institution, or group of people.

Usage examples:

Source materials in local archives

verb

Past simple and past participle of archive

Usage examples:

This software helps firms archive and retrieve emails.

verb

Transmit (a programme or some information) by radio or television.

Usage examples:

The announcement was broadcast live

noun

A radio or television programme or transmission.

Usage examples:

The queen's annual christmas tv broadcast

adjective

Relating to radio or television programmes.

Usage examples:

A broadcast journalist

verb

Make a map of (an area).

Usage examples:

Cook charted the coasts and waters of new zealand

noun

A sheet of information in the form of a table, graph, or diagram.

Usage examples:

The doctor recorded her blood pressure on a chart

verb

Past simple and past participle of chart

Usage examples:

We need some sort of graph on which we can chart our progress., the map charts the course of the ri…

verb

Record (a series of events) in a factual and detailed way.

Usage examples:

His work chronicles 20th-century migration

noun

A factual written account of important or historical events in the order of their occurrence.

Usage examples:

A vast chronicle of spanish history

verb

Past simple and past participle of chronicle

Usage examples:

The book chronicles the writer's coming to terms with his illness.

verb

Record (something) in written, photographic, or other form.

Usage examples:

The photographer spent years documenting the lives of miners

noun

A piece of written, printed, or electronic matter that provides information or evidence or that serves as an official record.

Usage examples:

The site provides access to official documents and reports, but not any political analysis.

adjective

Concerned with what is actually the case.

Usage examples:

A mixture of comment and factual information

adjective

Based on facts

Usage examples:

A factual account, the newspaper account was factually incorrect.

noun

A thin flexible strip of plastic or other material coated with light-sensitive emulsion for exposure in a camera, used to produce photographs or motion pictures.

Usage examples:

He had already shot a whole roll of film

verb

Capture on film as part of a series of moving images; make a film of (a story, event, or book).

Usage examples:

She glowered at the television crew who were filming them

verb

To make pictures of something in making a movie, or to make a movie

Usage examples:

[ t ] her last movie was filmed in spain., a roll of film, i didn’t get my film developed yet., a f…

noun

The giving of something to someone, especially as part of a formal ceremony.

Usage examples:

The presentation of certificates to new members

The act of formally giving something, as a prize

noun

The act of giving or showing something, or the way in which something is given or shown

Usage examples:

[ c ] a multimedia presentation, [ c ] after the sales presentation, the board had a number of ques…

noun

A set of related measures or activities with a particular long-term aim.

Usage examples:

An extensive programme of reforms

verb

Provide (a computer or other machine) with coded instructions for the automatic performance of a task.

Usage examples:

It is a simple matter to program the computer to recognize such symbols

noun

An officially organized system of services, activities, or opportunities that help people achieve something

Usage examples:

There is no graduate training programme for new recruits., a programme to do sth housing market ren…

noun

What happens in human situations rather than in a story, film, etc.

Usage examples:

In real life the star of the movie is a devoted husband and father., [ before noun ] a real-life st…

adjective

Set down in writing or some other permanent form for later reference.

Usage examples:

The first recorded use of the term was in 1865

verb

Convert (sound or a performance) into a permanent form for subsequent reproduction or broadcast.

Usage examples:

They were recording a guitar recital

verb

Past simple and past participle of record

Usage examples:

Cliff richard has recorded more number one hit songs than any other british pop star., we recorded …

adjective

Entered or recorded on an official list or directory.

Usage examples:

A registered charity

verb

Enter or record on an official list or directory.

Usage examples:

The vessel is registered as british

adjective

Recorded on an official list

Usage examples:

Only registered voters can be picked for jury selection.

verb

Give a spoken or written account of something that one has observed, heard, done, or investigated.

Usage examples:

The minister reported a decline in milk production

noun

An account given of a particular matter, especially in the form of an official document, after thorough investigation or consideration by an appointed person or body.

Usage examples:

The chairman's annual report

verb

To give an account or representation of in words

adjective

(of data) arranged in tabular form.

Usage examples:

Tabulated results

verb

Arrange (data) in tabular form.

Usage examples:

The system is designed to enable users to extract, analyse, and tabulate data

verb

Past simple and past participle of tabulate

noun

The action or process of transmitting something, or the state of being transmitted.

Usage examples:

The transmission of the virus

noun

The act of sending or giving something

Usage examples:

[ u ] you can stop the transmission of some diseases by washing your hands often.

noun

The process of sending something, for example gas or electricity, from one place to another

Usage examples:

Large investments are currently required: perhaps $500m a year in electricity generation, and a sim…

verb

Mark (letters, words, or other symbols) on a surface, typically paper, with a pen, pencil, or similar implement.

Usage examples:

He wrote his name on the paper

Past participle of write