recorder
a person who records, especially as an official duty.
English Law.
a judge in a city or borough court.
(formerly) the legal adviser of a city or borough, with responsibility for keeping a record of legal actions and local customs.
a recording or registering apparatus or device.
a device for recording sound, images, or data by electrical, magnetic, or optical means.
an end-blown flute having a fipple mouthpiece, eight finger holes, and a soft, mellow tone.
Origin of recorder
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How to use recorder in a sentence
The airline industry objects that sometimes these deployable recorders can pop out without cause, spreading needless alarm.
Red Tape and Black Boxes: Why We Keep ‘Losing’ Airliners in 2014 | Clive Irving | December 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFirst, the folks with the microphones and tape recorders focused obsessively on individual moral actors.
Even then, it took two years to find the wreckage and the flight data recorders.
MH370 Debris Is Lost Forever, Can the Plane Be Found Without It? | Clive Irving | September 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe recorders seemed to be largely intact, still safely sealed in their outer reinforced casings.
MH17 Is the World’s First Open-Source Air Crash Investigation | Clive Irving | July 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFlight data recorders were produced and became permanent props in the studio, their workings explored.
The immediate vicinity of the Hut, being a gully-like depression, was unsuitable for the wind and sunshine recorders.
The Home of the Blizzard | Douglas MawsonTo all recorders of these things that verily happened, she here acknowledges her indebtedness and gives her thanks.
The Long Roll | Mary JohnstonThe wedding is briefly mentioned by the old recorders only as something bearing upon the welfare of the colony.
Heroines That Every Child Should Know | VariousIndicator cards are in themselves inadequate, and should be supplemented by the records of explosion-recorders.
Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants | R. E. MathotTape recorders and television cameras, as well as the usual note pads and pencils, and so forth.
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British Dictionary definitions for recorder
/ (rɪˈkɔːdə) /
a person who records, such as an official or historian
something that records, esp an apparatus that provides a permanent record of experiments, etc
short for tape recorder
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
(in England) a barrister or solicitor of at least ten years' standing appointed to sit as a part-time judge in the crown court
Origin of recorder
1Derived forms of recorder
- recordership, noun
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Cultural definitions for 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.
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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