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.

   Synonyms: English flute, sweet flute

   • c. 1595–1596, William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene i]:

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

   • 1791, Homer; W[illiam] Cowper, transl., “[The Iliad.] Book 10.”, in The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into Blank Verse, […], volume I, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], OCLC 779243096, lines 12-14, page 242:

     […] he beheld
     The city fronted with bright fires, and heard
     Pipes, and recorders, and the hum of war;

   • 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter XII, in Great Expectations […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, OCLC 3359935, page 201:

     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,^[1]

     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,^[2]

     […] 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