[ri-kawr-der] 
| 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. |
[v. ri-kawrd; n., adj. rek-erd] | 1. | to set down in writing or the like, as for the purpose of preserving evidence. |
| 2. | to cause to be set down or registered: to record one's vote. |
| 3. | to state or indicate: He recorded his protest, but it was disregarded. |
| 4. | to serve to relate or to tell of: The document records that the battle took place six years earlier. |
| 5. | to set down or register in some permanent form, as on a seismograph. |
| 6. | to set down, register, or fix by characteristic marks, incisions, magnetism, etc., for the purpose of reproduction by a phonograph or magnetic reproducer. |
| 7. | to make a recording of: The orchestra recorded the 6th Symphony. |
| 8. | to record something; make a record. |
| 9. | an act of recording. |
| 10. | the state of being recorded, as in writing. |
| 11. | an account in writing or the like preserving the memory or knowledge of facts or events. |
| 12. | information or knowledge preserved in writing or the like. |
| 13. | a report, list, or aggregate of actions or achievements: He made a good record in college. The ship has a fine sailing record. |
| 14. | a legally documented history of criminal activity: They discovered that the suspect had a record. |
| 15. | something or someone serving as a remembrance; memorial: Keep this souvenir as a record of your visit. |
| 16. | the tracing, marking, or the like, made by a recording instrument. |
| 17. | something on which sound or images have been recorded for subsequent reproduction, as a grooved disk that is played on a phonograph or an optical disk for recording sound (audiodisk) or images (videodisk). Compare compact disk. |
| 18. | the highest or best rate, amount, etc., ever attained, esp. in sports: to hold the record for home runs; to break the record in the high jump. |
| 19. | Sports. the standing of a team or individual with respect to contests won, lost, and tied. |
| 20. | an official writing intended to be preserved. |
| 21. | Computers. a group of related fields, or a single field, treated as a unit and comprising part of a file or data set, for purposes of input, processing, output, or storage by a computer. |
| 22. | Law.
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| 23. | making or affording a record. |
| 24. | surpassing or superior to all others: a record year for automobile sales. |
| 25. | go on record, to issue a public statement of one's opinion or stand: He went on record as advocating immediate integration. |
| 26. | off the record,
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| 27. | on record,
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| re·cord·er (rĭ-kôr'dər) n.
[Sense 3, probably from record, to practice a tune, warble.] |
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.
record re·cord (rĭ-kôrd')
v. re·cord·ed, re·cord·ing, re·cords
To set down for preservation in writing or other permanent form.
To register or indicate.
An account, as of information or facts, set down especially in writing as a means of preserving knowledge.
A medical record.
In dentistry, a registration of desired jaw relations in a plastic material or on a device so that such relations may be transferred to an articulator.
The known history of performance, activities, or achievement.
A collection of related, often adjacent items of computer data, treated as a unit.
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."
