Definition of recorder Recorder
/ɹɪkɔˈɹdɚ/ - [rikorder] - re•cord•er
We found 17 definitions of recorder from 8 different sources.
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What does recorder mean?
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NounPlural: recorders |
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| recorder - equipment for making records | ||
| recording equipment, recording machine | ||
| equipment an instrumentality needed for an undertaking or to perform a service | ||
| black box equipment that records information about the performance of an aircraft during flight | ||
| cassette recorder a recorder for recording or playing cassettes | ||
| cd burner, compact-disk burner recording equipment for making compact disks | ||
| magnetic recorder recorder consisting of equipment for making records on magnetic media | ||
| multichannel recorder a recorder with two or more channels; makes continuous records of two or more signals simultaneously | ||
| oscillograph a device for making a record of the wave forms of fluctuating voltages or currents | ||
| recorder - a barrister or solicitor who serves as part-time judge in towns or boroughs | ||
| judge, jurist, justice a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice | ||
| recorder - someone responsible for keeping records | ||
| registrar, record-keeper | ||
| functionary, official someone who administers the rules of a game or sport; "the golfer asked for an official who could give him a ruling" | ||
| recorder - a tubular wind instrument with 8 finger holes and a fipple mouthpiece | ||
| fipple flute, fipple pipe, vertical flute | ||
| pipe a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc. | ||
| treble recorder, flageolet, shepherd's pipe a small fipple flute with four finger holes and two thumb holes | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- recorder (n.)
One who records; specifically, a person whose official duty it is to make a record of writings or transactions. - recorder (n.)
The title of the chief judical officer of some cities and boroughs; also, of the chief justice of an East Indian settlement. The Recorder of London is judge of the Lord Mayor's Court, and one of the commissioners of the Central Criminal Court. - recorder (n.)
A kind of wind instrument resembling the flageolet.
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recorder
A whistle-like woodwind musical instrument with holes for seven fingers and one for the thumb of the uppermost hand.
Military DictionaryMilitary Dictionary and Gazetteer 💥
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recorder
One who keeps a record; specifically, the officer who registers the proceedings of a board or minor court.
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recorder
A good recorder sets all in order.
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The recorder is a musical instrument that is a type of flute. It is shaped like a tube with one end bigger than the other end. A recorder player puts the bigger end in their mouth and blows into it.
In Europe, people started to play the recorder in medieval times. The recorder was often used by musicians to sound like bird songs. Purcell, Bach, Telemann and Vivaldi all wrote music for the recorder. By the 1900s very few people played the recorder. They liked the flute and other instruments better than the recorder. These instruments are louder than the recorder and are better for playing difficult music.
In the 1900s more people started to learn the recorder again. One reason was that people wanted to play old music on old kinds of instruments. A second reason was that the recorder is a good instrument for children to learn about music.
History of recorders.
Whistles are very old instruments. People have found some whistles that were made in the Iron Age. A recorder is a type of whistle. It has holes for seven fingers and one thumb. It also has one end bigger than the other. The first recorders were made in the 1500s. Some remains of these have been found in Germany, the Netherlands and Greece.
Many people played the recorder in Europe in the 1500s and 1600s. King Henry VIII of England had 76 recorders. William Shakespeare talks about recorders in his play "Hamlet" and John Milton talks about them in his poem "Paradise Lost". Recorders from that time are now called Renaissanc
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