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# document

«document» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **a piece of paper or a computer file with official or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a document, documents); verb (document, documents, documented, documenting)

### meaning for a pupil

1) noun: A document is a piece of paper or a computer file with official or important writing, such as a passport, letter or report. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/document/#m1)

2) noun: A document is any file you write on a computer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/document/#m2)

3) verb: To document something means to record it carefully in writing, photos or video. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/document/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In school pupils write and save documents on computers and study historical documents as sources. In everyday life adults keep documents like birth certificates and passports safe. In science we document results. Phrases: official document, save the document, identity documents, document the results.

### examples

- From the foregoing it is evident that so far we have no historic document by which to prove either the authorship or the exact age of the Sefer Yetzirah. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/document/#x1)
- Please print the document and sign it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/document/#x2)
- Bring your travel documents to the airport. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/document/#x3)
- I saved the document in my folder. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/document/#x4)
- Historians read old documents to learn about the past. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/document/#x5)
- We documented the plant's growth with photos every day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/document/#x6)
- The film documents the life of a penguin family. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/document/#x7)
- It is for professional students of folk-lore to study the original documents for themselves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/document/#x8)

### note

Countable noun. Noun stressed DOC-u-ment; the verb is said the same way but ends with a clearer "ment". Related: documentary (a factual film), documentation (written records). Short form: doc.

### In the corpora

- [A CV is a short, honest document about your skills, results and work, which employers read to decide whom to meet.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/39-money-work-and-the-big-choices/12/)
- [The Nanjing massacre of 1937–1938 is widely documented, and China and Japan still disagree about how to remember the war.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/58-china-1911-1949-and-mao/16/)
- [A will is a document in which a person says who should get their things after they die.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/58-when-a-grandparent-dies/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «document» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/document/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.