recorderとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)də(ɹ)

名詞

recorder (複数形 recorders)

1. An apparatus for recording; a device which records.
2. Agent noun of record; one who records.
3. A judge in a municipal court.

派生語

語源 2

From Middle English recorder, from record (“to practice (music)”).

A baroque alto recorder

名詞

recorder (複数形 recorders)

2. (music) A 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.

   • c. 1595, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act V, Scene 1,^[1]

     Indeed he hath played on his prologue like a child on a recorder; a sound, but not in government.

   • 1791, William Cowper (translator), The Iliad of Homer, London: J. Johnson, Book 10, lines 12-14, p. 242, ^[2]

     […] he beheld

     The city fronted with bright fires, and heard

     Pipes, and recorders, and the hum of war;

   • 1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, London: Chapman and Hall, Volume 2, Chapter 12, p. 201,^[3]

     On his [Hamlet’s] taking the recorders—very like a little black flute that had just been played in the orchestra and handed out at the door—he was called upon unanimously for Rule Britannia.

   • 1982, Anne Tyler, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, New York: Knopf, Chapter 5, p. 133,^[4]

     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.

   • 2017, Daniel Mendelsohn, An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic, New York: Penguin Random House,^[5]

     […] he had huffed into his white plastic recorder while scowling at the sheets of music that lay open on the wobbly stainless-steel stand.

派生語

参照

• recorder in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

アナグラム

• re-record, rerecord

Latin

動詞

recorder

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of recordor