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
1Words Nearby recorder
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How to use recorder in a sentence
Rather than cursing myself for not sitting down and writing for an hour after a 12-mile hike, I got an audio recorder and recorded voice notes all day long.
These Gear Hacks Got Me Through a 30,000-Mile Road Trip | agintzler | July 27, 2021 | Outside OnlineThey don’t use helicopters unless it’s a life or death situation, and when I was doing my studies, I had to camouflage my recorders so people wouldn’t notice them.
The Military’s ‘Garbage Disposal’ Jets Are Ruining One of America’s Quietest Parks | Daniel Modlin | June 7, 2021 | The Daily BeastThe source for the database was more than 2,700 assessment contracts that PACE districts filed with local recorders of deeds between November 2016 and February 2021 to secure property as collateral for their loans.
State-Supported “Clean Energy” Loans Are Putting Borrowers At Risk of Losing Their Homes | by Jeremy Kohler and Haru Coryne | April 23, 2021 | ProPublicaLos Angeles-based startup Kernel has devised two technologies that serve as non-invasive brain recorders — inventions that attracted $53 million in funding last year.
These sequences are incorporated into the recorder’s “DNA ticker tape” to document the signal.
New Research Could Enable Direct Data Transfer From Computers to Living Cells | Edd Gent | January 11, 2021 | Singularity Hub
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.
Escaping Assad’s Rape Prisons: A Survivor Tells Her Story | Jamie Dettmer | October 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut sitting in a room with a guy and tape recorder asking those questions had to have been frustrating at the time, right?
Choose Your Own Neil Patrick Harris: The Star on ‘Doogie,’ ‘Gone Girl,’ Gay Sex and More | Kevin Fallon | October 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTGriffin 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.
Three Dicks: Cheney, Nixon, Richard III and the Art of Reputation Rehab | Clive Irving | July 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe safe rule is to leave the deed with the recorder as soon as possible after receiving it.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman | Albert Sidney BollesAs soon as the deed has been delivered, it should be taken to the recorder's office to be recorded.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman | Albert Sidney BollesBut these were trifles compared with the devastation committed at Bristol, when its recorder.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. | E. Farr and E. H. NolanThe Sunday after I was brought to the same place again, before the lieutenant and recorder of London, and they examined me.
Fox's Book of Martyrs | John FoxeThe recorder was forbidden to practice at the bar except in cases which concerned himself or the town or Colony.
A short history of Rhode Island | George Washington Greene
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.
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