Recorder Meaning
/ɹiˈkɔː.də/Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounAn apparatus for recording; a device which records.
nounAgent noun of record; one who records.
Sentence Examples
I paid 40,000 yen for this tape recorder.
Bob and Mary play the recorder.
The tape recorder is a useful aid to teaching.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The teacher used a small video ____ to capture the students' presentations.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The court ____ transcribed every word spoken during the three-week trial.
Word Origin & History
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.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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 26, “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:
"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]:
"[…] 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:
"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:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The teacher used a small video ____ to capture the students' presentations.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The court ____ transcribed every word spoken during the three-week trial.