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doc·u·ment  (dky-mnt)
n.
1.
a. A written or printed paper that bears the original, official, or legal form of something and can be used to furnish decisive evidence or information.
b. Something, such as a recording or a photograph, that can be used to furnish evidence or information.
c. A writing that contains information.
d. Computer Science A piece of work created with an application, as by a word processor.
e. Computer Science A computer file that is not an executable file and contains data for use by applications.
2. Something, especially a material substance such as a coin bearing a revealing symbol or mark, that serves as proof or evidence.
tr.v. (-mnt) doc·u·ment·ed, doc·u·ment·ing, doc·u·ments
1. To furnish with a document or documents.
2. To support (an assertion or claim, for example) with evidence or decisive information.
3. To support (statements in a book, for example) with written references or citations; annotate.

[Middle English, precept, from Old French, from Latin documentum, example, proof, from docre, to teach; see dek- in Indo-European roots.]

docu·mental (-mntl) adj.
docu·menter n.
Translations
documents مستندات dokumenty dokumenter Dokumente τεκμήρια documentos asiapaperit documents dokumenti documentazione ドキュメント 문서 documenten dokumenter dokumenty documentos документы dokument เอกสารต่างๆ belgeler tài liệu 资料


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Nearly a month since, accident gave the clerk in question an opportunity of looking into one of the documents on his master's table, which had attracted his attention from a slight peculiar ity in the form and color of the paper.
, the 29th of October), subscribe a Declaration stating his innocence of the alleged crime: this Declaration being reserved in the Indictment--together with certain documents, papers and articles, enumerated in an Inventory--to be used in evidence against the prisoner.
I therefore felt disposed to undertake the task, provided documents of sufficient extent and minuteness could be furnished to me.
 
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