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recorder
[ ri-kawr-der ]
noun
- 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.
recorder
/ ɪˈɔːə /
noun
- 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
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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Derived Forms
- ˈǰˌ, noun
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Word History and Origins
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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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Authorities are examining the aircraft's black box data recorder to determine the cause of the crash.
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Back in those days, I always had a little cassette recorder with me, and I started singing the song into it.
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He added: "The shockwaves indicate that the bullets are passing close to the recorder microphone - meaning they are being shot at."
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When the ban was instituted she had to buy a standalone recorder.
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Those seasonal workers would have set out about 4,500 audio recorders in forests stretching from Central California to Canada.
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