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   recorder

   /rɪˈkɔːdə/

   noun

   • 1. an apparatus for recording sound, pictures, or data: "I was talking away into my recorder" Similar tape recordercassette recordervideocassette recorderVCRvideo recordervideotape recordervideo
   • 2. a person who keeps records: "a recorder of rural life" Similar record keeperregistrararchivistannalistdiaristchroniclerhistorianscribeclerkrare:chronologerchronologistchronographer
   • 3. (in England and Wales) a barrister appointed to serve as a part-time judge.
   • ▪ a judge in certain courts. historical British
   • 4. a simple wind instrument without keys, held vertically and played by blowing air through a shaped mouthpiece against a sharp edge.

   Word Origin late 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 recorder (sense 4)).

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