[rɪˈkɔːdə], (Noun)

Definitions:
- an apparatus for recording sound, pictures, or data
(e.g: I was talking away into my recorder)

- a person who keeps records
(e.g: a recorder of rural life)

- (in England and Wales) a barrister appointed to serve as a part-time judge

- a simple wind instrument without keys, held vertically and played by blowing air through a shaped mouthpiece against a sharp edge


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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)