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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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Other 51Թ Forms

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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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Planes usually carry two black boxes - small but tough electronic data recorders.

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He had been given a tape recorder and he soon learned the art of overdubbing, a vital part of what would become the trademark Beach Boys' sound.

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“We sounded like a bunch of college frat boys singing into a tape recorder,” Marsh says.

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The National Transportation Safety Board is examining a mix of clues and said the aircraft did not have a flight data recorder, which would have provided more information.

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In 1948, Bing Crosby gave Paul his first mono Ampex recorder, to which Paul added a second playback head, which enabled him to record multiple tracks on the same reel of tape.

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