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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.
Derived Forms
- ˈǰˌ, noun
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of recorder1
Example Sentences
When the ban was instituted she had to buy a standalone recorder.
Those seasonal workers would have set out about 4,500 audio recorders in forests stretching from Central California to Canada.
The cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder have been recovered from the wreckage.
If the rest of the team ever finds out that she destroyed the plane’s flight recorder after the crash, well — I’d say she’d be dead, but we know she makes it to the present, so...
Officials have recovered the cockpit voice recorder - also known as the black box - from the helicopter involved in the plane crash that killed 67 people at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday.
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