Definition of Document

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Document

That which is taught or authoritatively set forth; precept; instruction; dogma.

An example for instruction or warning.

An original or official paper relied upon as the basis, proof, or support of anything else; -- in its most extended sense, including any writing, book, or other instrument conveying information in the case; any material substance on which the thoughts of men are represented by any species of conventional mark or symbol.

To teach; to school.

To furnish with documents or papers necessary to establish facts or give information; as, a a ship should be documented according to the directions of law.

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Document Quotations

The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.
Winston Churchill

Sir, I see a lot of documents in my day-to-day business, and I can't tell you every document that I've seen. It may have passed across my desk. It may not have passed across my desk. I truthfully cannot answer that question, other than to say I don't remember.
Rand Beers

Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.
Thurgood Marshall

It's not about trying to be funny all the time. It's more of a document that hopefully is funny.
David Cross

The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.
Stephen Ambrose

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
Walter Scott

We know no document is perfect, but when we amend the Constitution, it would be to expand rights, not to take away rights from decent, loyal Americans. This great Constitution of ours should never be used to make a group of Americans permanent second-class citizens.
Barbara Boxer

In modern Russia, you have no official, formal assessment of this past. Nobody in any Russian document has said that the policy of the Soviet government was criminal, that it was terrible. No one has ever said this.
Ryszard Kapuscinski

I'm more married to Sandy now than when we were married with the legal document. We're still married as parents.
Bobby Darin

What makes the Universal Declaration an epochal document is first of all its global impetus and secondly the breadth of its claims, a commitment to a new social contract, binding on all the Governments of the world.
John Charles Polanyi

Document Translations

document in Afrikaans is dokument
document in Dutch is akte, acte, bedrijf, stuk, dokument
document in French is document, documentez, documentent, documenter
document in German is Dokument, Unterlage, Dokument, Urkunde
document in Italian is documento, documento, atto
document in Latin is tabellae
document in Norwegian is dokument, dokumentere
document in Portuguese is original
document in Spanish is escrito, documento
document in Swedish is handling, dokument, urkund, akt

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