recording machine
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- noun
- /rɪˈkɔrdɪŋ məˈʃin/
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- Hours passed, and while I could not remember exactly what the experience had been about, I always felt as if I'd accomplished something by the time I stopped and pushed the dirty dishes to one side so I could rinse a glass, pour a couple of fingers of scotch, and put a fresh tape on the fancy recording machine in the bedroom.
- use a recording machine
Examples
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He recorded his song using a state-of-the-art recording machine.
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But most DAWs are designed as studio tools to replace hardware recording machines; they are not meant for live DJ use.
Blog text (25) -
A tape recording machine was next to them.
Fiction book (1997) -
Recording machine, she said to herself,
Fiction book (1994) -
Perhaps, there could also be charges of fraudulently selling recording machines that cannot be used?
Blog text (24) -
It's a recording machine.
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When Daddy gets back from Johannesburg, we ought to put a tape-recording machine on the telephone, and then print what they say in the paper.
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They deactivated the recording machines.
Fiction book (2002) -
Rice also provides a practice room equipped with a recording machine for those students who are unable to make recordings of good quality at home or for the older students (some of whom may have an eye toward a college music major) who are striving for the best possible sound.
Academic text (1999) -
The journalist set up her recording machine to capture the interview.
Synonyms
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2.6
A device that saves sound or images for later playback
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1.6
A machine that records moving pictures and sound
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2.4
A machine that records and plays sound on tape
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3.4
A small camera that records video and sound
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2.9
Machines used to take and save sound or video
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3.2
A device that records or plays sound on magnetic tape
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7.4
A small machine that records and plays back speech to make notes
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A small machine that records and plays sound on cassette tapes
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A set of devices that capture sound for music or other uses
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4.3
A machine that records and plays television shows on tape
A device that records two or more separate sound channels at the same time
A device that uses magnetic tape or disk to save sound, pictures and data
How Advanced
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun phrase is directly compositional: 'recording' (something that captures sound/video) combined with 'machine' (a device) yields a device that records. This is a straightforward, cross-linguistically common modifier + noun pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
The compound recording machine comes from the simple idea of a recording, meaning saving sound or images, and a machine, meaning a piece of equipment. Early machines actually saved sound onto wax or tape, so the phrase means 'a device that makes audio or video recordings'.