recording vs signaling

recording and signaling both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
recording	Yes	No	No	No
signaling	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, signaling is a hypernym of recording; that is, signaling is a word with a broader meaning than recording:

recording: a signal that encodes something (e.g., picture or sound) that has been recorded
signaling: any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message

Other hypernyms of recording include sign, signal, signalling.

recording (noun)	signaling (noun)
the act of making a record (especially an audio record)	any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message
a signal that encodes something (e.g., picture or sound) that has been recorded
a storage device on which information (sounds or images) have been recorded