Recorder
[rɪ'kɔːdə] or [rɪ'kɔrdɚ]
Definition
(noun.) equipment for making records.
(noun.) a barrister or solicitor who serves as part-time judge in towns or boroughs.
Typist: Maura--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who records; specifically, a person whose official duty it is to make a record of writings or transactions.
(n.) The title of the chief judical officer of some cities and boroughs; also, of the chief justice of an East Indian settlement. The Recorder of London is judge of the Lord Mayor's Court, and one of the commissioners of the Central Criminal Court.
(n.) A kind of wind instrument resembling the flageolet.
Editor: Miles
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Registrar, register, scribe, clerk.
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Examples
- It is called a siphon recorder because the record is made by a little glass siphon down which a flow of ink is maintained like a fountain pen. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- So far Morse had only used his recorder over a few yards of wire, his electro-magnet had been of the simplest make, and his battery was a single pair of plates. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- He could not understand it, neither could any of the other operators; for we used to hide my impromptu automatic recorder when our toil was over. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Messages now go across the Atlantic and are received on the siphon recorder at the rate of fifty words a minute, and at a cost of twenty-five cents a word. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- He took out his first patent in 1868, when he was twenty-one years old, and it was obtained for what he called an electrical vote recorder. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- This sounder soon drove out the old Morse recorder. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The jagged lines seen in Fig. 16 spell the words siphon recorder. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Second, a more expeditious instrument called the _syphon recorder_. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- In this way a much feebler current would be able to excite the magnet, and the recorder would mark at a much greater distance. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- An illustration of the gramophone recorder is given in Fig. 193. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The Recorder's report is made to-day, and he is sure to be executed on Monday. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The diaphragms used in the recorders and reproducers are made of French rolled plate glass, thinner than a sheet of ordinary writing paper. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Forty-one distinct inventions relating to the phonograph, covering various forms of recorders, arrangement of parts, making of records, shaving tool, adjustments, etc. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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