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recorder

[ ri-kawr-der ]

noun

  1. a person who records, especially as an official duty.
  2. English Law.
    1. a judge in a city or borough court.
    2. (formerly) the legal adviser of a city or borough, with responsibility for keeping a record of legal actions and local customs.
  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.


recorder

/ ɪˈɔːə /

noun

  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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

recorder

  1. 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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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of recorder1

1275–1325; Middle English recorder wind instrument ( record, -er 1 ), recordour legal official (< Anglo-French recordour, Old French recordeour )
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of recorder1

sense 4 probably from record ( vb ) in the archaic sense "to sing"
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Example Sentences

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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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The cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder have been recovered from the wreckage.

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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...

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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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