[ri-kawr-der] Pronunciation Key | 1. | a person who records, esp. as an official duty. |
| 2. | English Law.
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| 3. | a recording or registering apparatus or device. |
| 4. | a device for recording sound, images, or data by electrical, magnetic, or optical means. |
| 5. | an end-blown flute having a fipple mouthpiece, eight finger holes, and a soft, mellow tone. |
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| re·cord·er
(rĭ-kôr'dər) Pronunciation Key
n.
[Sense 3, probably from record, to practice a tune, warble.] |
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recorder
| recorder | |
noun | |
| 1. | equipment for making records |
| 2. | someone responsible for keeping records [syn: registrar] |
| 3. | a barrister or solicitor who serves as part-time judge in towns or boroughs |
| 4. | a tubular wind instrument with 8 finger holes and a fipple mouthpiece [syn: fipple flute] |
recorder
A wooden flute played like a whistle. It was popular in the fourteenth through eighteenth centuries. Interest in it has been revived over the past few decades.
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Main Entry: re·cord·er
Function: noun
1 : a judge of a municipal court
2 : a public officer charged with making a record of writings or transactions (as conveyances) recorder of deeds>
Recorder
Re*cord"er\ (r?*k?rd"?r), n. 1. One who records; specifically, a person whose official duty it is to make a record of writings or transactions. 2. The title of the chief judical officer of some cities and boroughs; also, of the chief justice of an East Indian settlement. The Recorder of London is judge of the Lord Mayor's Court, and one of the commissioners of the Central Criminal Court. 3. (Mus.) A kind of wind instrument resembling the flageolet. [Obs.] "Flutes and soft recorders." --Milton.
Recorder
(Heb. mazkir, i.e., "the mentioner," "rememberancer"), the office first held by Jehoshaphat in the court of David (2 Sam. 8:16), also in the court of Solomon (1 Kings 4:3). The next recorder mentioned is Joah, in the reign of Hezekiah (2 Kings 18:18, 37; Isa. 36:3, 22). In the reign of Josiah another of the name of Joah filled this office (2 Chr. 34:8). The "recorder" was the chancellor or vizier of the kingdom. He brought all weighty matters under the notice of the king, "such as complaints, petitions, and wishes of subjects or foreigners. He also drew up papers for the king's guidance, and prepared drafts of the royal will for the scribes. All treaties came under his oversight; and he had the care of the national archives or records, to which, as royal historiographer, like the same state officer in Assyria and Egypt, he added the current annals of the kingdom."
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