Meaning

An apparatus for recording; a device which records..

Definitions by Sense

1. An apparatus for recording; a device which records.
2. Agent noun of record; one who records.
3. A judge in a municipal court.
4. (music) A musical instrument of the woodwind family; a type of fipple flute, a simple internal duct flute.

Example Sentences

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."

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.

Recorders are made in various sizes, from the high soprano or descant recorder to the low bass recorder.

Indeed he hath played on his prologue like a child on a recorder; a sound, but not in government.

[…] he beheld The city fronted with bright fires, and heard Pipes, and recorders, and the hum of war;

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.

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.

[…] he had huffed into his white plastic recorder while scowling at the sheets of music that lay open on the wobbly stainless-steel stand.

Word Forms

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When Should You Use Recorder?

Use recorder when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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