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/rɪkˈɔrdər/ /rikˈɔrdər/ Listen

Recorder

noun

Equipment for making records. Synonyms: recording equipment, recording machine.

Someone responsible for keeping records. Synonyms: record-keeper, registrar.

A barrister or solicitor who serves as part-time judge in towns or boroughs.

A tubular wind instrument with 8 finger holes and a fipple mouthpiece. Synonyms: fipple flute, fipple pipe, vertical flute.

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"Recorder" Quotes from Famous Books

... class. Nowadays poets do not slander the gods; it is not worth their while, because nobody believes in the gods. They have other ways of undermining society. Plato everywhere shows an unerring feeling for art. Aristotle is a recorder ...

— Wagner's Tristan und Isolde • George Ainslie Hight

... recorder at the court of Rouen who assisted Denizet at the inquiry into the murder of Grandmorin. He was skilful in selecting the essential parts of evidence, so as not to put down anything useless. ...

— A Zola Dictionary • J. G. Patterson

... upon usual topics, addressing readers of their own condition, have their share of difficulties; at best one conquers the art of expression as a General conquers an enemy. But the obstacles which present themselves to the recorder of this narrative are such as will be seen at once to have peculiar force. Almost at the outset they dishearten me. How shall I tell the story unless I be understood? And how should I be understood if I told the story? Were it for me, a man miserable and ...

— The Gates Between • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

... consecutive lines which he would be willing to see introduced into our own Communion Office. Or, as respects translations from the Latin office-books of the Church of England, let him scrupulously search the pages of the "Sarum Hours," as done into the vernacular by the Recorder of Salisbury, and see how many of the Collects strike him as good enough to be transplanted into the Book of Common Prayer. The result of this latter voyage of discovery will be an increased wonder at the affluence of the mediaeval devotions, combined with amazement at the poverty and unsatisfactoriness ...

— A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer • William Reed Huntington

... been in the movies long since if her aunt had listened to reason. The only man present was Edgar Tomlinson, who is Red Gap's most prominent first-nighter and does the Lounger-in-the-Lobby column for the Recorder, reviewing all the new films in an able and fearless manner. Edgar was looking like he had come into his own at last. He was wearing a flowing tie and a collar that hardly come higher than his chest and big wind shields on a ...

— Ma Pettengill • Harry Leon Wilson

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