| recorder (rɪˈkɔːdə) | |
| —n | |
| 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 |
| [sense 4 probably from record (vb) in the archaic sense "to sing"] | |
| re'cordership | |
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| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |