recorder
noun/rɪˈkɔːdə(r)/
/rɪˈkɔːrdər/
- (in compounds) a machine for recording sound or pictures or both
- The cockpit voice recorder indicated that the crew did not call for any checklist.
- a tape/cassette/video/DVD recorder
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- a musical instrument in the shape of a pipe that you blow into, with holes that you cover with your fingers see also descant recorder, soprano recorderTopics Musicc1
- a judge in a court in some parts of the UK and the US
- a person who keeps a record of events or facts
- In natural history the careful observer and recorder was very important in the advance of the science.
Word Originlate Middle English (denoting a kind of judge): from Anglo-Norman French recordour, from Old French recorder ‘bring to remembrance’; partly reinforced by the verb record (also used in the obsolete sense ‘practise a tune’: see sense (2)).
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