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Definition of Recorder

1. Noun. Equipment for making records.

2. Noun. Someone responsible for keeping records.

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

4. Noun. A tubular wind instrument with 8 finger holes and a fipple mouthpiece.

Definition of Recorder

1. n. One who records; specifically, a person whose official duty it is to make a record of writings or transactions.

Definition of Recorder

1. Noun. An apparatus for recording; a device which records. ¹

2. Noun. Agent noun of record; one who records. ¹

3. Noun. A judge in a municipal court. ¹

4. Noun. A simple internal duct flute ¹

5. Noun. A woodwind musical instrument. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Recorder

1. one that records [n -S] - See also: records

Lexicographical Neighbors of Recorder

record hop record jacket record label record labels record locator record of decision record player record players record rim record sleeve

recordable recordance recordation recordations recorded recorder (current term) recorder player recorders recordership recorderships

recording recording artist recording equipment recording label recording machine recording studio recording system recordings recordist recordists

Literary usage of Recorder

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1912)
"209, •§ 24, provides that a special court for the trial of misdemeanors is established to be known as the "recorder's court of Rocky Mount. ..."

2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, George Mifflin Wharton (1845)
"They relied particularly on the word posset, which was only correct as applied to the then existing recorder; but if meant to be applied to any future ..."

3. A General Abridgment of Law and Equity: Alphabetically Digested Under Proper by Charles Viner (1793)
"(G. 2) Trial by the recorder of London. f_i. ... ¡(Tue (hall be tried by the certificate of the mayor and aldermen, by the mouth of the recorder ore tenus ..."

4. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1908)
"The member of the recorder family which survived had a compass of two octaves, from /" to/"', fingerings up to a"' being sometimes given. ..."

5. Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science by Johns Hopkins University, Herbert Baxter Adams (1887)
"The recorder. province and subscribe the declaration and profession of his ... In case of the misconduct of the mayor he might be removed by the recorder, ..."

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