document

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun 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.
• noun Something, such as a recording or a photograph, that can be used to furnish evidence or information.
• noun A writing that contains information.
• noun Computers A piece of work created with an application, as with a word processor.
• noun Computers A computer file that is not an executable file and contains data for use by applications.
• noun Something, especially a material substance such as a coin bearing a revealing symbol or mark, that serves as proof or evidence.
• transitive verb To furnish with a document or documents.
• transitive verb To support (an assertion or claim, for example) with evidence or decisive information.
• transitive verb To support (statements in a book, for example) with written references or citations; annotate.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To teach with authority; instruct; school.
• To support by recorded evidence; bring evidence of; prove.
• To furnish with documents; furnish with instructions and proofs, or with papers necessary to establish facts: as, a ship should be documented according to the directions of law.
• noun That which is taught; precept; teaching; instruction; direction; authoritative dogma.
• noun Strictly, a written or printed paper containing an authoritative record or statement of any kind; more generally, any writing or publication that may be used as a source of evidence or information upon a particular subject or class of subjects; specifically, in the law of evidence, anything bearing a legible or significant inscription or legend; anything that may be read as communicating an idea (including thus a tombstone, a seal, a coin, a sign-board, etc., as well as paper writings).

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb obsolete To teach; to school.
• transitive verb To furnish with documents or papers necessary to establish facts or give information.
• noun obsolete That which is taught or authoritatively set forth; precept; instruction; dogma.
• noun obsolete An example for instruction or warning.
• noun 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.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun An original or official paper relied upon as the basis, proof, or support of anything else, including any writing, book, or other instrument conveying information pertinent to such proof or support. Any material substance on which the thoughts of men are represented by any species of conventional mark or symbol.
• noun obsolete That which is taught or authoritatively set forth; precept; instruction; dogma.
• noun obsolete An example for instruction or warning.
• verb To record in documents.
• verb To furnish with documents or papers necessary to establish facts or give information.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a written account of ownership or obligation
• verb support or supply with references
• noun writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature)
• noun anything serving as a representation of a person's thinking by means of symbolic marks
• verb record in detail
• noun (computer science) a computer file that contains text (and possibly formatting instructions) using seven-bit ASCII characters