different between displayunit vs recorder

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English recordour, borrowed from Old French recordour, from Old French recordeor, from Medieval Latin record?tor, from Latin recordor (“call to mind, remember, recollect”), from re- (“back, again”) + cor (“heart; mind”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(?)d?(?)

Noun

recorder (plural 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.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

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

Noun

recorder (plural recorders)

2. (music) A musical instrument of the woodwind family; a type of fipple flute, a simple internal duct flute.
   • 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.

Derived terms

Translations

References

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

Anagrams

• re-record, rerecord

French

Etymology 1

From Middle French recorder, from Old French recorder, from Vulgar Latin record?re, alternative form of Latin record?r?, present active infinitive of recordor (“call to mind, remember, recollect”), from re- (“back, again”) + cor (“heart; mind”).

Verb

recorder

1. to say something repetitively in order to learn.

   As-tu recordé ta leçon?

Conjugation

Related terms

• recordation
• record

Etymology 2

re- +? corder.

Verb

recorder

1. to restring

Further reading

• “recorder” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Verb

recorder

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of recordor

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French recorder.

Verb

recorder

1. to record; to register; to make a record (of)

Conjugation

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Descendants

• French: recorder

Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin record?re, from Latin record?r?, present active infinitive of recordor.

Verb

recorder

1. to record; to register
2. to recall; to remember

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-d, *-ds, *-dt are modified to t, z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Related terms

• recort
• recordeor

Descendants

• ? English: record
• Middle French: recorder
  • French: recorder

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (recorder)