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recorder

[ ri-kawr-der ]

noun

  1. a person who records, especially as an official duty.
  2. English Law.
    1. a judge in a city or borough court.
    2. (formerly) the legal adviser of a city or borough, with responsibility for keeping a record of legal actions and local customs.
  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.


recorder

/ rɪˈkɔːdə /

noun

  1. a person who records, such as an official or historian
  2. something that records, esp an apparatus that provides a permanent record of experiments, etc
  3. short for tape recorder
  4. music a wind instrument of the flute family, blown through a fipple in the mouth end, having a reedlike quality of tone. There are four usual sizes: bass, tenor, treble, and descant
  5. (in England) a barrister or solicitor of at least ten years' standing appointed to sit as a part-time judge in the crown court


recorder

  1. 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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Derived Forms

  • reˈcorderˌship, noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of recorder1

1275–1325; Middle English recorder wind instrument ( record, -er 1 ), recordour legal official (< Anglo-French recordour, Old French recordeour )

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Word History and Origins

Origin of recorder1

sense 4 probably from record ( vb ) in the archaic sense "to sing"

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Example Sentences

I stood with a tape recorder, listening to men denounce the liberal media controlled by Jews.

Her arrest came at a checkpoint in Damascus in June 2013, when soldiers spotted an audio recorder in her bag.

But sitting in a room with a guy and tape recorder asking those questions had to have been frustrating at the time, right?

Griffin is herself a character in the novel, the invisible hand on the other end of the tape recorder in all the interviews.

Had Richard III been able to install a tape recorder in his palaces the ranting might well have been identical.

The safe rule is to leave the deed with the recorder as soon as possible after receiving it.

As soon as the deed has been delivered, it should be taken to the recorder's office to be recorded.

But these were trifles compared with the devastation committed at Bristol, when its recorder.

The Sunday after I was brought to the same place again, before the lieutenant and recorder of London, and they examined me.

The recorder was forbidden to practice at the bar except in cases which concerned himself or the town or Colony.

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