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How to use recorder in a sentence

31 example sentences · noun

Recorder means an apparatus for recording; a device which records. Example: “Recorders are made in various sizes, from the high soprano or descant recorder to the low bass recorder.”

Examples of recorder by meaning

nounAn apparatus for recording; a device which records.

  • A smartphone is not the best camera, notebook, word processor, audio recorder, radio, MP3 player, map reader, pedometer and so on, but it is good enough replace numerous separate devices for most people most of the time.2019 June 27, Jack Schofield, “What’s the best cheap tablet or e-reader for PDF files?”, in The Guardian

nounA musical instrument of the woodwind family; a type of fipple flute, a simple internal duct flute.

  • Recorders are made in various sizes, from the high soprano or descant recorder to the low bass recorder.
  • And when they paused on a hilltop for lunch, he whipped out his battered recorder and commenced to tootling “Greensleeves,” scaring off all living creatures within a five-mile radius—which may have been his intention.1982, Anne Tyler, chapter 5, in Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, New York: Knopf, page 133
  • Recorder players today will disagree, and probably hate me for saying so, but all these “historically authentic” recorders used today generally produce – with rare exceptions – a rather plain, lifeless, non-vibrato, non-singing performance.2023 August 24, “Why old recorders hit a dull note”, in The Guardian

More sentences with recorder

  • The VHS recorder just ate the tape and won't spit it out.From the entry eat
  • We used to make videos on tape recorders.From the entry video
  • The best thing to do is this: get a variable speed tape recorder.2003 November 21, Todd LaRoc, “The need for speed”, in alt.guitar.beginner (Usenet). From the entry guitarmony
  • Imagine a parliamentary stenographer scribbling furiously in the days before tape recorders.1993, Graham Bradshaw, “Appendix: Dashing Othello’s Spirits”, in Misrepresentations: Shakespeare and the Materialists, Ithaca, N.Y.…. From the entry Hansard
  • The recorder blicked off, and the tape hissed to the end of the reel in silence.1988, Sheila Radley, The chief inspector's daughter, page 171. From the entry blick
  • He called Worsel, and, upon being informed that the recorders were ready, he started in.1939 December, E[dward] E[lmer] Smith, “Gray Lensman”, in Astounding Science-Fiction, volume XXIV, number 4, New York, N.Y.: Street &…. From the entry wight
  • The Zelda-like recorder, for example, creates a tornado that, in carrying Xandir away, also destroys a trailer park.2023, Karen M. Cook, “Xandir P. Whifflebottom, Video Game … Hero?”, in Lisa Scoggin, Dana Plank, editors, The Intersection of Animation…. From the entry Zelda-like
  • The video recorders clicked on a moment later.2014, Don Pendleton, Savage Fire, Open Road Media, →ISBN. From the entry warwagon
  • A sound recorder carries a dead cat on a stick.2012 August 16, Neil Oseman, Inside the Director's Folder. From the entry dead cat
  • They found two chairs arranged before a podium and on a kitcheny-looking table next to the podium was a tape recorder.2007, Marc Joseph, The Heifer Chronicles: The End Time Imperiled, page 78. From the entry kitcheny
  • Recorder, political pieces in the Tribune and Herald.2004, David Mitchell, “Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery”, in Cloud Atlas, →ISBN, page 126. From the entry summa cum laude
  • The use of these tapes requires a student to have a microtape recorder that accommodates the smaller-size tape.2000, M. Cay Holbrook, Alan J. Koenig, Foundations of Education, page 191. From the entry microtape
  • I am having an incredibly time getting my sound recorder to work and would appreciate any possible insight available.1998, Chris, “Sound Advice....”, in news.newusers.questions (Usenet). From the entry dillio
  • The boat, with a crew consisting of a driver, dip-netter and recorder, approached each piece of large wood from its downstream end.2008, Paul J. Wood, David M. Hannah, Jonathan P. Sadler, Hydroecology and Ecohydrology: Past, Present and Future, →ISBN, page 391. From the entry dip-netter
  • "Now press button A," a Dalek voice tells someone who is trying to set the video recorder to tape a TV programme for later viewing.1988, New Scientist, 118: 79. From the entry Dalek voice
  • He rises to get a butterfly-knotted length of yarn from the yarn rack, then sits down and turns on the tape recorder for instructions.1980 August 10, Tropic (The Miami Herald, 70th year, number 254), page 11. From the entry butterfly-knotted
  • Correspondents all have portable tape recorders.1964, European Broadcasting Union, EBU Review: Programmes, Administration, Law, volume 83, page 22. From the entry actuality
  • The majority of locomotives are not yet fitted with engine-hour recorders and examinations are, therefore, based on a computation of the locomotive-hours in traffic.1964 January, “The maintenance of B.R. diesel-electric locomotives”, in Modern Railways, page 54. From the entry engine hour
  • It acts as a translator, computer, holographic recorder and player, full translation software, and can create lockpicks and any other equipment needed to use a character's skills.2012 June, Stew Wilson, “Mass Effecting the Thousand Suns”, in RPG Review, number 16, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 50. From the entry fabricate
  • When we were kids we would sit by the radio with a tape recorder on a Sunday, listening out for the chart songs we wanted to have.2009 March 15, “Soundtrack of my life”, in The Guardian. From the entry would
  • For example, helicopters that ditch at sea are often unrecoverable and consequently, despite the systems' higher cost and increased complexity, the Navy needed deployable recorder systems for its helicopters.2002, Aircraft & Aerospace Asia-Pacific. From the entry deployable
  • OCTAVATION (also called Pitch Control) — Changing the rate of tape speed over the playback head of a tape recorder changes the pitch of the signal being played back.1973, George R Neaderhiser, Guidelines for the Development of a Comprehensive Music Curriculum for Elementary Secondary Schools, page…. From the entry octavation
  • We'll need some decent equipment and plenty of cash on the line—if only for drugs and a super-sensitive tape recorder, for the sake of a permanent record.1971, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream. From the entry cash on the line
  • A graphical record is also made on the strip fed through the recorder, the pen of which is actuated by the mag slip and repeater unit.1955, Institution of Production Engineers (Great Britain), Journal - Volume 34, page 313. From the entry mag slip
  • His various "crescographs," or growth recorders, have steadily increased in sensitiveness, until in the latest, the magnetic crescograph, we have an instrument which magnifies the movement ten million times.1936, J.C. Squire, The London Mercury, volume 33, page 511. From the entry crescograph
  • There would be a snowland of refrigerators and freezers, long tables of word processors and tape recorders, stacks of music CDs and movies on videotape — and libraries of books.2016, William F. Buckley, Last Call for Blackford Oakes. From the entry snowland
  • Armed with some manuals, a pocket recorder, and some standard speech-form and folkway tapes, he rapidly purchased thin clothing, stormwear, writing implements, further recording tools, lugbags, and other personal gear.1967, David I[rvine] Masson, “Traveler’s Rest”, in Robert Silverberg, editor, Voyagers in Time: Twelve Stories of Science Fiction, New…. From the entry stormwear

Meaning of recorder

  1. noun An apparatus for recording; a device which records.
  2. noun A judge in a municipal court.
  3. noun A musical instrument of the woodwind family; a type of fipple flute, a simple internal duct flute.

Full definition of recorder

Questions about recorder in a sentence

How do you use recorder in a sentence?
Recorder is used as a noun. For example: “Recorders are made in various sizes, from the high soprano or descant recorder to the low bass recorder.”
What is a short sentence with recorder?
“Correspondents all have portable tape recorders.”
What does recorder mean?
Recorder means an apparatus for recording; a device which records.

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