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Album

Definition: Album

Album

Noun

1. One or more recordings issued together; originally released on 12-inch phonograph records (usually with attractive record covers) and later on cassette audio tape and compact disc.

2. A book of blank pages with pockets or envelopes; for organizing photographs or stamp collections etc.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "album" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1677. (references)

Etymology: Album \Al"bum\, noun. [Latin expression, neut. of albus white: compare to the French expression album. Compare to Alb.]. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Album

DomainDefinition

Industry

An album is the most convenient place for keeping a collection of photographs. Source: European Union. (references)

Dream Interpretation

To dream of an album, denotes you will have success and true friends.
For a young woman to dream of looking at photographs in an album, foretells that she will soon have a new lover who will be very agreeable to her. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....

Literature

Album A blank book for scraps. The Romans applied the word to certain tables overlaid with gypsum, on which were inscribed the annals of the chief priests, the edicts of the prætors, and rules relating to civil matters. In the Middle Ages, "album" was the general name of a register or list; so called from being kept either on a white (albus) board with black letters, or on a black board with white letters. For the same reason the boards in churches for notices, and the boards in universities containing the names of the college men, are called albums. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Album

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

An album is a packaged collection of related things. The most common types of albums are record albums and photo albums.

Photo albums collect a series of photographs in a book. Some albums have compartments which the photos may be slipped in to; older style albums often were simply books of heavy paper which photos could be glued to or attached to with adhesive corners.

The term record album originally referred to a collection of 78 RPM gramophone or phonograph records kept together in a book resembling a photo album. Later "album" came to refer to a single long playing 33 1/3 RPM 12" record of songs or music, as one disc contained as much music as an old-style album of records. Now that the vinyl record is less common, the term is applied to any hard-pressed full length sound recording (including CD, Minidisc, and cassette.)

Now that albums are on CD and new media, the matter of how long an album should be is open to debate. One author suggested at least eight tracks, but there are albums of fewer tracks. According to the rules of the British Charts, a recording counts as an album if either it has at least four tracks or lasts more than 20 minutes.

Returning to the older meaning of the term, there are now albums of compact discs; collections of cds in a single package.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Album."

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Die Trying (album)

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Die Trying was released by the band Die Trying on June 10, 2003 as their first album. They released their first single called "Oxygen's Gone" which debuted on KROQ.

The member Jacoby Shaddix of Papa Roach appears on "Conquer The World".

Track Listing

  1. "One Day At A Time"
  2. "Runaway"
  3. "Oxygen's Gone"
  4. "Turn Up The Radio"
  5. "Love And Guns"
  6. "F*** You"
  7. "Dirty Dirty"
  8. "Conquer The World"
  9. "Never Good Enough"
  10. "Words That Kill"
  11. "Die Trying"
  12. "So Long"

Chart positions

Billboard Music Charts (North America) - album 
2003 Die Trying                Heatseekers                        No. 14 
2003 Die Trying                Top Heatseekers                    No. 14
Billboard Music Charts (North America) - singles 
2003 Oxygen's Gone             Mainstream Rock Tracks             No. 35
2003 Oxygen's Gone             Modern Rock Tracks                 No. 29

Personnel

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Graceland (album)

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Graceland is an album released in 1986 by Paul Simon. The title track describes a visit to Graceland, Elvis Presley's estate in Memphis, Tennessee.

The album featured South African musicians including the band Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Simon faced accusations that he had broken the cultural boycott imposed by western democracies against the apartheid regime in South Africa. This view was not supported by the United Nations Anti-Apartheid Committee, as the album showcased the talents of the black South African musicians while offering no support to the South African government.

Track listing:

  1. The Boy In The Bubble
  2. Graceland
  3. I Know What I Know
  4. Gumboots
  5. Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes
  6. You Can Call Me Al
  7. Under African Skies
  8. Homeless
  9. Crazy Love Vol II
  10. That Was Your Mother
  11. All Around The World or The Myth Of Fingerprints

    Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Graceland (album)."

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List of albums

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

This is a list of musical albums with articles in the Wikipedia. For a list of particularly notable albums (with or without an extant article) see List of albums by genre.

Numbers and punctuation

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

X

Y

Z

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Persistence Of Time

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Persistence of Time is the name of a famous painting by Salvador Dali that depicts clocks melting.

It is also an album by the band Anthrax.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Persistence Of Time."

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Persistence of Time

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Persistence of Time is the ninth album by the speed metal band Anthrax. The album was released in August of 1990 by Megaforce Worldwide/Island Entertainment. The band and Mark Dodson produced the album, which was released as a double album (along with Among the Living) in Germany in 2000. The album includes the singles, "Got the Time" and "In My World". Persistence of Time was certified gold by the RIAA.

Its highest Billboard Music Chart position was #24 on the Billboard 200 chart.

Persistence of Time stands out among other Anthrax albums due to its unified lyrical focus on the need for tolerance and peace. The ghoulish and macabre elements of the music remain, and the album is as aggressive as ever, with a rapidfire beat.

Track Listing

  1. Time (Anthrax) 6:55
  2. Blood (Anthrax) 7:13
  3. Keep It in the Family (Anthrax) 7:08
  4. In My World (Anthrax) 6:25
  5. Gridlock (Anthrax) 5:17
  6. Intro to Reality (Anthrax) 3:23
  7. Belly of the Beast (Anthrax) 4:47
  8. Got the Time (Joe Jackson) 2:44
  9. H8 Red (Anthrax) 5:04
  10. One Man Stands (Anthrax) 5:38
  11. Discharge (Anthrax) 4:12

Personnel

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Record

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Record is (as a noun) any set of data kept, and (as a verb) to set down data to be kept. Such data may be writing, audio, digital, or other media.

For the sound recording type of record that spins on a turntable, known as a phonograph record in American English and a gramophone record in British English, see analogue disc record.

In computer science, a record can be any of at least two different things.

The most common meaning is simply "an item in a database". There is a wide variety of such "records", but the most common type (the one relational databases support) is an instance of the other kind of record.

The other meaning of "record" is "an aggregation of several items of possibly different types", with the implication that there are many records containing the same types of items. C calls these "structs"; object-oriented languages often keep their records hidden inside "objects", or "class instances"; languages in the ML family have their tuples. COBOL was the first programming language to support records directly; Algol got it from COBOL, and Pascal got it, more or less indirectly, from Algol.

A record is also an extreme value that would be considered worthy of recording for posterity, e.g. in sports, weather, economics, etc.

In law, the record of a court case or administrative agency adjudication normally consists of the transcript or minutes of the proceedings, any exhibits introduced in evidence at the hearing or trial, and any motion papers filed in the case. When an appeal is taken, the appellate court reviews the decision of the trial court based on the record on appeal which consists of the record of the case from the trial court or some subset of that record. Where the original record is missing, a hearing may have to be held to reconstruct the record on appeal. Nowadays, this is rare, but was common in past centuries before stenographic equipment came into use, when transcripts of trials were not always made. (See also court of record.)

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Record."

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Risk (Megadeth)

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Risk was released by Capitol Records in 1999.

At that time, Megadeth were:

List of tracks:
  1. Insomnia
  2. Prince Of Darkness
  3. Enter The Arena
  4. Crush 'Em
  5. Breadline
  6. The Doctor Is Calling
  7. I'll Be There
  8. Wanderlust
  9. Ecstasy
  10. Seven
  11. Time: The Beginning
  12. Time: The End

See also: Megadeth

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Risk (Megadeth)."

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Synonym: Album

Synonym: record album (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Album

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Book

Part, issue, number livraison; album, portfolio; periodical, serial, magazine, ephemeris, annual, journal.

Compendium

Album; scrap book, note book, memorandum book, commonplace book; extracts, excerpta, cuttings; fugitive pieces, fugitive writing; spicilegium, flowers, anthology, collectanea, analecta; compilation.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Album

English words defined with "album": autograph album ♦ benefit album ♦ concept album ♦ Frost-blite ♦ Jervine ♦ Kyaboca wood ♦ phonograph album, photograph album ♦ record album ♦ scrapbook, stamp album ♦ tribute album ♦ Veratralbine, Veratric acid, Viscin ♦ Worm grass ♦ Zinc oxide. (references)
Specialty definitions using "album": Endopeptidase K ♦ Oleanolic Acid ♦ Protoveratrines ♦ REGISTER ♦ Veratridine. (references)
Etymologies containing "album": Alb. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Album" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Afrikaan (album), Albanian (album), Czech (album), Danish (album), Dutch (album), French (album), German (album), Hungarian (album, scrap book, scrap-book), Indonesian (album), Italian (album), Latin (Elbe, official list, register, white, white opaque spot on the eye, white tablet, writing tablet / list), Polish (album), Portuguese (opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, poppy, poppy plant), Romanian (album), Serbo-Croatian (album, scrapbook), Swedish (album, albums).

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Modern Usage: Album

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Why don't you save that for the liner notes on the album. (Can't Stop the Music; writing credit: Allan Carr; Bronte Woodard)

If you wanted to buy a Sam Cooke album, where would you go (Under the Cherry Moon; writing credit: Becky Johnston)

Actually, his new album tested well among teenage males (Empire Records; writing credit: Carol Heikkinen)

No, but I loved her last album! (Panic Room; writing credit: David Koepp)

You would believe Will if he told you that he were some big rap star, whose album just went platinum (The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air; writing credit: Hisao Ohkawa; Kaoru Umeno)

Lyrics

Yo' album droppin' this summer (Ugly; performing artist: Bubba Sparxxx)

And when your album sales wasn't doin too good (Forgot About Dre; performing artist: Dr. dre)

Available on the album Jump Up (Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny); performing artist: Elton John)

Snapshot in the family album ("Another Brick in the Wall"; performing artist: Pink Floyd)

Movie/TV Titles

Album polski (1970)

Movie Album Featurettes (1935)

The Movie Album (1931)

Family Album (1923)

L' Album merveilleux (1905)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Album

DomainTitle

Books

  • 100 Best Album Covers (reference)

  • Album of Horses (reference)

  • Blue Note: Album Cover Art (reference)

  • Days of Our Lives: The Complete Family Album (reference)

  • Goldmine Record Album Price Guide (Goldmine Record Album Price Guide, 2nd Edition) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • Original Cast Album - Company (reference)

  • For Better or For Worse - The Family Album (reference)

  • The Three Stooges Family Album (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Album

Photos:
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Illustrations:
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Computer Images:
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Photo Album: Album

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

A vibrant celestial photo album of some of NASA Hubble Space Telescope's most stunning views ... Credit: NASA.

Earle Deily, Survey Officer of 17th Field Artillery Observation Battalion Somewhere in Europe, 1944 or 1945 Photo from 17th FAOB Album. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Route of 17th Field Artillery Observation Battalion through Belgium and Germany 17th FAOB was on the north shoulder of the Bulge Photo from 17th FAOB Album. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Diagram of sound ranging coverage with artillery firing possibilities Image from the 8th FAOB Album. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Sound ranging operations of 8th FAOB 70 sound bases established in less than one year Image from the 8th FAOB Album. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Flash observer at work 25 flash bases established Image from the 8th FAOB Album. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Over 4,000 miles of wire laid to communicate with sound and flash ranging bases Image from the 8th FAOB Album. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Composite of all operations associated with 8th FAOB Image from the 8th FAOB Album. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

The bottom line - determined 7,016 enemy targets for Allied artillery Image from the 8th FAOB Album. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Haemulon album Cuvier & Valenciennes. Margate-fish. In: "The Fishes of Porto Rico", by Barton Warren Evermann and Millard Caleb Marsh. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, Vol. XX for 1900. First Part. P. 350, Plate 24. Credit: Fisheries.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Album
 

"Photo album" by Kemie Guaida
Commentary: "Photo album with old black and white photos."		"Guitar player" by Thomash
Commentary: "Close up of a guitar player strumming, from a series taken for a flamenco guitar album."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Album

SubjectTopicQuote

Civil Liberties

Seychelles

The singer claimed the album copies were seized because they contained songs that were critical of the Government and that called for political change. (references)

Seychelles

In May government officials seized a shipment of copies of a local singer's album on the grounds that the singer had not obtained an import permit for the shipment. (references)

Singapore

In May, singer Janet Jackson's album "All for You" was banned officially by the Ministry of Information and the Arts due to the sexually explicit lyrics of one of its tracks; Jackson declined to delete the track from the album. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Album

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Celine Dion

I'm glad. He mortgaged his house to make me do my first album. I'm glad he's a gambler. That's great. He needs to be.

Dennis Miller

For every misguided soul raised in a permissive hippie atmosphere who turns into a John Walker Lindh, there are a thousand more who become the gentle stoner cashiers trying to push the new Phil Lesh solo album on you at Tower Records.

John Hartmann

Phil made money in a lot of directions. He was a Renaissance man. He was a brilliant artist who worked for me as my art department when I was managing a lot of top musical acts. And he did other album covers and logos and ad layouts, and he was a genius.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Album

"Album" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.53% of the time. "Album" is used about 2,118 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words		Rank in English
Noun (singular)99.53%2,1084,121
Noun (proper)0.33%7133,076
Noun (common)0.09%2245,945
Unclassified Items0.05%1339,140
                    Total100.00%2,118N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Album

Expressions using "album": Album Graecum ♦ autograph album ♦ benefit album ♦ Chenopodium album ♦ collector's album ♦ concept album ♦ cypripedium album ♦ Haemulon album ♦ lamium album ♦ nihil album ♦ phonograph album ♦ photo album ♦ photograph album ♦ record album ♦ Santalum album ♦ sedum album ♦ stamp album ♦ tribute album ♦ V album ♦ veratrum album ♦ viscum album. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "album": album-addled, album-by-album, album-oriented, album-selling.

Ending with "album": eight-album, mini-album.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Album

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day		ExpressionFrequency
per Day

photo album

7,946

full album mp3

213

album

2,758

mp3 album

208

picture album

1,065

album review

207

wedding album

839

full album download

206

baby album

825

rap album

199

album cover

784

album cream ice js lyrics version

198

online photo album

747

music album

193

wedding photo album

486

digital photo album

181

full album

438

album beyonce crazy in love lyrics version

180

flip album

399

album lyrics matchbox twenty unwell version

171

album intuition jewel lyrics version

393

50 cent album

170

photo album software

387

leather photo album

149

yahoo photo album

318

album black jay z

148

free online photo album

308

record album

147

photograph album

270

free photo album

144

scrapbook album

255

album download

131

album sales

220

photo shop album

129

beatles album

219

wrap album

129

metallica album

218

pioneer photo album

127

adobe photo shop album

213

album metallica new

125
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Album

Language Translations for "album"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

album. (various references)

   

Albanian

  

album. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مختارات أدبية أو موسيقية, ‏ألبوم تواقيع. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

албум. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

像片簿 , 册页. (various references)

   

Czech

  

album. (various references)

   

Danish

  

album. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

album. (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

albumo. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

جای عکس , البوم . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

albumi. (various references)

   

French

  

album. (various references)

   

German

  

Album. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

λεύκωμα (albumen, albumin, leucoma), άλμπουμ (sketch book). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

תמונון, אלבום. (various references)