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recorder en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /ɹiˈkɔː.də/ (UK)
  • (US) audio
  • /ɹiˈkɔɹ.dəɹ/ (US)
  • /ɹə-/ (US)

Etymology

From Middle English recordour, borrowed from Old French recordour, from Old French recordeor, from Medieval Latin recordātor, from Latin recordor (“call to mind, remember, recollect”), from re- (“back, again”) + cor (“heart; mind”). By surface analysis, record + -er.

Meanings

  1. An apparatus for recording; a device which records.
    • Between 8 and 9 p.m., the recorder at a meteorological station at Harrow, Middlesex, picked up 1,470 lightning flashes within a radius of 10 to 15 miles, and observers at the station described the storm as "probably one of the most spectacular of the century." 1958 November 14, “Storm Damage in the Home Counties”, in Railway Magazine, page 746:
    • A smartphone is not the best camera, notebook, word processor, audio recorder, radio, MP3 player, map reader, pedometer and so on, but it is good enough replace numerous separate devices for most people most of the time. 2019 June 27, Jack Schofield, “What’s the best cheap tablet or e-reader for PDF files?”, in The Guardian:
  2. (agent, form-of) Agent noun of record; one who records.
    form of record
  3. A judge in a municipal court.

Forms

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Deriveds

event data recorder · nanorecorder · cassette recorder · flight recorder · cockpit recorder · recordership · video recorder · basset recorder · batcorder · flight data recorder · minicorder · XY recorder · cockpit voice recorder · X-Y recorder · siphon recorder · holocorder · time recorder · wire recorder · treble recorder · quick access recorder · tape recorder · voyage data recorder · trip recorder · magnetic recorder · event recorder · digital video recorder · descant recorder · data recorder · radio cassette recorder · camcorder · videocassette recorder · personal video recorder

Translations (61)

sv inspelningsassistent (someone who records) · cmn 记录人 (someone who records) · it registratrice (someone who records) · fi nauhuri (recording device) · fi äänittäjä (someone who records) · ru протоколи́ст (someone who records) · ja レコーダー (recording device) · cmn 錄像機 /录像机 video recorder (recording device) · fi kihlakunnantuomari (judge) · bg записващ прибор (recording device) · lt registratorius (recording device) · fi levyttäjä (someone who records) · vi máy ghi âm (recording device) · fi tallennin (recording device) · fr enregistreur (recording device) · es escribiente (someone who records) · fa رکوردر (recording device) · sv bandspelare (recording device) · hi रिकॉर्डर (recording device) · ms perakam (recording device) · es grabador (someone who records) · de Aufzeichnungsgerät (recording device) · it registratore (recording device) · es grabadora (recording device) · ga taifeadán (recording device) · el εγγραφέας (recording device) · ur ریکارڈر (recording device) · ko 리코더 (recording device) · el αρχειοφύλαξ (judge) · es juez municipal (judge) · fi tallentaja (someone who records) · pt gravador (someone who records) · vi máy ghi hình (recording device) · cmn 刑事法院法官 (judge) · ru регистра́тор (someone who records) · pl rejestrator (recording device) · ru видеомагнитофо́н m video recorder (recording device) · pt gravador (recording device) · sv ljudtekniker (someone who records) · ary مسجلة (recording device) · it registratore (someone who records) · sv fickminne (recording device) · es registrador (someone who records) · my ရီကော်ဒါ (recording device) · pl nagrywarka (recording device) · cmn 錄音機 /录音机 tape recorder (recording device) · ru самопи́шущий прибо́р m scientific device (recording device) · bg протоколчик (someone who records) · de Rekorder (recording device) · ar مُسَجِّل (someone who records) · vi máy quay (recording device) · wa eredjistreu (recording device) · ru магнитофо́н m tape recorder (recording device) · es grabadora (someone who records) · ar مُسَجِّل (recording device) · ru архива́риус (someone who records) · sv inspelningsapparatur (recording device) · ru реко́рдер (judge) · el καταγραφέας (someone who records) · bg секретар (someone who records) · de Aufnahmegerät (recording device)

recorder en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • /ɹiˈkɔː.də/ (UK)
  • (US) audio
  • /ɹiˈkɔɹ.dəɹ/ (US)
  • /ɹə-/ (US)

Etymology

From Middle English recorder, from record (“to practice (music)”); ultimately cognate with Etymology 1.

Meanings

  1. A musical instrument of the woodwind family; a type of fipple flute, a simple internal duct flute.
    • Indeed he hath played on his prologue like a child on a recorder; a sound, but not in government. c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
    • And when they paused on a hilltop for lunch, he whipped out his battered recorder and commenced to tootling “Greensleeves,” scaring off all living creatures within a five-mile radius—which may have been his intention. 1982, Anne Tyler, chapter 5, in Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, New York: Knopf, page 133:
    • Recorder players today will disagree, and probably hate me for saying so, but all these “historically authentic” recorders used today generally produce – with rare exceptions – a rather plain, lifeless, non-vibrato, non-singing performance. This appeals only to recorder players themselves, early music fans and academic music specialists. 2023 August 24, “Why old recorders hit a dull note”, in The Guardian:
    • On his [Hamlet’s] taking the recorders—very like a little black flute that had just been played in the orchestra and handed out at the door—he was called upon unanimously for Rule Britannia. 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter XII, in Great Expectations […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 201:
    • Recorders are made in various sizes, from the high soprano or descant recorder to the low bass recorder.
    • […] he beheld The city fronted with bright fires, and heard Pipes, and recorders, and the hum of war; 1791, Homer, “[The Iliad.] Book 10.”, in W[illiam] Cowper, transl., The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into Blank Verse, […], volume I, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 242, lines 12-14:
    • […] he had huffed into his white plastic recorder while scowling at the sheets of music that lay open on the wobbly stainless-steel stand. 2017, Daniel Mendelsohn, An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic, New York: Penguin Random House:

Forms

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recorders Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

tenor recorder · alto recorder · bass recorder · recordist · contrabass recorder · recorderist · great bass recorder · soprano recorder · garklein recorder · sopranino recorder

Synonyms

sweet flute · English flute

Translations (43)

ru реко́рдер (musical instrument) · ko 리코더 (musical instrument) · cs zobcová flétna (musical instrument) · it flauto (musical instrument) · gl frauta doce (musical instrument) · ja 縦笛 (musical instrument) · ro fluier (musical instrument) · eo bekfluto (musical instrument) · cmn 木笛 (musical instrument) · yue 牧童笛 (musical instrument) · is flauta (musical instrument) · ja レコーダー (musical instrument) · hu furulya (musical instrument) · es flauta dulce (musical instrument) · cmn 直笛 (musical instrument) · et plokkflööt (musical instrument) · af blokfluit (musical instrument) · ca flauta dolça (musical instrument) · nl blokfluit (musical instrument) · la tibia recta (musical instrument) · el φλογέρα (musical instrument) · pt flauta doce (musical instrument) · mi rehu Pākehā (musical instrument) · fr flûte à bec (musical instrument) · ja 竪笛 (musical instrument) · sk zobcová flauta (musical instrument) · cmn 豎笛 /竖笛 (musical instrument) · nb blokkfløyte (musical instrument) · da blokfløjte (musical instrument) · pt flauta de bisel (musical instrument) · ja リコーダー (musical instrument) · nn blokkfløyte (musical instrument) · ru блокфле́йта (musical instrument) · es flauta de pico (musical instrument) · de Blockflöte (musical instrument) · is blokkflauta (musical instrument) · fi nokkahuilu (musical instrument) · it flauto dolce (musical instrument) · kl blokfløjte (musical instrument) · sv blockflöjt (musical instrument) · pl flet prosty (musical instrument) · ja ブロックフレーテ (musical instrument) · yi פֿלייטל (musical instrument)