recorder

American  

[ri-kawr-der] / rɪˈkɔr dər /

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.

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recorder British  

/ 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

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recorder Cultural  

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 Word Forms

• recordership noun

Etymology

Origin of recorder

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

Example Sentences

Verify the deed and property title at the county recorder’s office.

From MarketWatch

Photos and fliers lined the walls, road cases were stuffed with memorabilia, and the sound of early demos played on actual tape recorders filled the space.

From Los Angeles Times

Mr. Frampton used 16- and 24-track recorders for greater texture, tapes that ran faster than normal to pick up more information, and Dolby noise reduction to isolate the music from crowd noise during songs.

From The Wall Street Journal

Turkish authorities found the cockpit voice recorder and black box from a private jet that crashed Wednesday killing the head of Libya's armed forces and his four aides.

From Barron's

Two types of instrument are used: either a Campbell-Stokes sunshine recorder or a modern sunshine duration detector.

From BBC

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