Recorder

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Recorder \Re*cord"er\ (r?*k?rd"?r), n.
     1. One who records; specifically, a person whose official
        duty it is to make a record of writings or transactions.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. 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]
  
     3. (Mus.) A kind of wind instrument resembling the flageolet.
        [Obs.] "Flutes and soft recorders." --Milton.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  recorder
       n 1: equipment for making records [syn: {recording equipment}, {recording
            machine}]
       2: someone responsible for keeping records [syn: {registrar}, {record-keeper}]
       3: a barrister or solicitor who serves as part-time judge in
          towns or boroughs
       4: a woodwind with a vertical pipe and 8 finger holes and a
          whistle mouthpiece [syn: {fipple flute}, {fipple pipe}, {vertical
          flute}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  111 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Recorder
     (Heb. mazkir, i.e., "the mentioner," "rememberancer"), the
     office first held by Jehoshaphat in the court of David (2 Sam.
     8:16), also in the court of Solomon (1 Kings 4:3). The next
     recorder mentioned is Joah, in the reign of Hezekiah (2 Kings
     18:18, 37; Isa. 36:3, 22). In the reign of Josiah another of the
     name of Joah filled this office (2 Chr. 34:8). The "recorder"
     was the chancellor or vizier of the kingdom. He brought all
     weighty matters under the notice of the king, "such as
     complaints, petitions, and wishes of subjects or foreigners. He
     also drew up papers for the king's guidance, and prepared drafts
     of the royal will for the scribes. All treaties came under his
     oversight; and he had the care of the national archives or
     records, to which, as royal historiographer, like the same state
     officer in Assyria and Egypt, he added the current annals of the
     kingdom."
     

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  RECORDER. 1. A judicial officer of some cities, possessing generally the 
  powers and authority of a judge. 3 Yeates' R. 300; 4 Dall. Rep. 299; but see 
  1 Rep. Const. Ct. 45. Anciently, recorder signified to recite or testify on 
  re-collection as occasion might require what had previously passed in court, 
  and this was the duty of the judges, thence called recordeurs. Steph. Plead. 
  note 11. 2. An officer appointed to make record or enrollment of deeds and 
  other legal instruments, authorized by law to be recorded.