recorder

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: re=cord=er

CIDE DICTIONARY

recorder, n. 

•  One who records; specifically, a person whose official duty it is to make a record of writings or transactions.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]
•  A kind of wind instrument resembling the flageolet.  Milton.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

recorder, n.
1 an apparatus for recording, esp. a tape recorder.
2 a a keeper of records. b a person who makes an official record.
3 Brit. a a barrister or solicitor of at least ten years' standing, appointed to serve as a part-time judge. b hist. a judge in certain courts.
4 Mus. a woodwind instrument like a flute but blown through the end and having a more hollow tone.

Derivative

recordership n. (in sense 3).

Etymology

ME f. AF recordour, OF recordeur & f. RECORD (in obs. sense 'practise a tune')

THESAURUS

recorder

CA, CPA, English horn, Flexowriter typewriter, JA, Pandean pipe, Teleplotter, accountant, accountant general, actuary, alphabetical printer, amicus curiae, assessor, auditor, aulos, bank accountant, bank examiner, barmaster, basset horn, basset oboe, bassoon, bombard, bookkeeper, calculator, certified public accountant, chancellor, chartered accountant, circuit judge, clarinet, clerk, comptroller, contrabassoon, contrafagotto, controller, cost accountant, cost keeper, cromorne, digital graph plotter, double bassoon, double reed, fife, fipple flute, flageolet, flute, hard copy, hautboy, heckelphone, hornpipe, journalizer, judge advocate, judge ordinary, jurat, justice in eyre, justice of assize, lay judge, legal assessor, licorice stick, magnetic recorder, magnetic tape, master, microcards, microfiche, microfilm, military judge, musette, oaten reed, oboe, oboe da caccia, ocarina, ombudsman, ordinary, oscillograph recorder, oscilloscope, panpipe, penny-whistle, piccolo, pipe, police judge, pommer, presiding judge, printout, probate judge, puisne judge, punch cards, punched tape, reader, readout, reckoner, reed, reed instrument, registrar, relay register, sax, saxophone, shawm, single reed, single-reed instrument, sonorophone, sweet potato, syrinx, tabor pipe, tape reader, teletypewriter, tenoroon, tin-whistle, vice-chancellor, whistle, woods, woodwind, woodwind choir, woodwind instrument

ROGET THESAURUS

recorder

Judge

N judge, justice, justiciar, justiciary, chancellor, justice of assize, judge of assize, recorder, common sergeant, puisne judge, assistant judge, county court judge, conservator of the peace, justice of the peace, J, P, court, magistrate, police magistrate, beak, his worship, his honor, his lordship, jury, twelve men in a box, Lord Chancellor, Lord Justice, Master of the Rolls, Vice Chancellor, Lord Chief Justice, Chief Baron, Mr, Justice, Associate Justice, Chief Justice, Baron, Baron of the Exchequer, jurat, assessor, arbiter, arbitrator, umpire, referee, referendary, revising barrister, domesman, censor, barmaster, ephor, grand juror, grand juryman, juryman, talesman, archon, tribune, praetor, syndic, podesta, mollah, ulema, mufti, cadi, kadi, Rhadamanthus, litigant, judicial, a Daniel come to judgment.

Record

N record, trace, vestige, relic, remains, scar, cicatrix, footstep, footmark, footprint, pug, track mark, wake, trail, scent, piste, monument, hatchment, slab, tablet, trophy, achievement, obelisk, pillar, column, monolith, memorial, memento, testimonial, medal, commemoration, record, note, minute, register, registry, roll, cartulary, diptych, Domesday book, catalogue raisonne, entry, memorandum, indorsement, inscription, copy, duplicate, docket, notch, muniment, deed, document, deposition, proces verbal, affidavit, certificate, notebook, memorandum book, memo book, pocketbook, commonplace book, portfolio, pigeonholes, excerpta, adversaria, jottings, dottings, gazette, gazetteer, newspaper, daily, magazine, almanac, almanack, calendar, ephemeris, diary, log, journal, daybook, ledger, cashbook, petty cashbook, professional journal, scientific literature, the literature, primary literature, secondary literature, article, review article, archive, scroll, state paper, return, blue book, statistics, compte rendu, Acts of, Transactions of, Proceedings of, Hansard's Debates, chronicle, annals, legend, history, biography, Congressional Records, registration, registry, enrollment, inrollment, tabulation, entry, booking, signature, recorder, journalism, recording, tape recording, videotape, compact disk, floppy disk, diskette, hard disk, Winchester disk, read-only memory, ROM, write once read mostly memory, WORM, on record, exegi monumentum aere perennium, read their history in a nation's eyes, records that defy the tooth of time.

Recorder

N recorder, notary, clerk, registrar, registrary, register, prothonotary, amanuensis, secretary, scribe, babu, remembrancer, bookkeeper, custos rotulorum, Master of the Rolls, annalist, historian, historiographer, chronicler, journalist, biographer, antiquary, memorialist, interviewer.