recorder
noun
[ rɪˈkɔːdə ]
• an apparatus for recording sound, pictures, or data.
• "I was talking away into my recorder"
• a person who keeps records.
• "a recorder of rural life"
Similar:
record keeper,
registrar,
archivist,
annalist,
diarist,
chronicler,
historian,
scribe,
clerk,
chronologer,
chronologist,
chronographer,
• (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.
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 (sense 4)).
