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

/ rɪˈkɔːdə /

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

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.

Derived Forms

• reˈcorderˌship, noun

Word 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 )

Word History and Origins

Origin of recorder¹

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

Example Sentences

I stood with a tape recorder, listening to men denounce the liberal media controlled by Jews.

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Her arrest came at a checkpoint in Damascus in June 2013, when soldiers spotted an audio recorder in her bag.

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But sitting in a room with a guy and tape recorder asking those questions had to have been frustrating at the time, right?

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Griffin is herself a character in the novel, the invisible hand on the other end of the tape recorder in all the interviews.

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Had Richard III been able to install a tape recorder in his palaces the ranting might well have been identical.

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The safe rule is to leave the deed with the recorder as soon as possible after receiving it.

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As soon as the deed has been delivered, it should be taken to the recorder's office to be recorded.

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But these were trifles compared with the devastation committed at Bristol, when its recorder.

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The Sunday after I was brought to the same place again, before the lieutenant and recorder of London, and they examined me.

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The recorder was forbidden to practice at the bar except in cases which concerned himself or the town or Colony.

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