wire recorder
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9.8
- noun
- /ˈwaɪər rɪˈkoʊrdər/
- Archaic
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- He was good in math and had shortwave radios and wire recorders from the Second World War.
Examples
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This is a little like the performance of a wire recorder or a strip of cinematographic film on which are registered all those things of which the individual was once aware—the things he selected for his attention in that interval of time....
Academic text (1990) -
A wire recorder.
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Get the wire recorder out of the car, and don't leave evidence laying around like that.
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This is a Minafon, miniature wire recorder.
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(My first recorder was a German wire recorder.)
Blog text (23) -
He loved collecting vintage technology, and his favorite was a wire recorder from the 1950s.
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After discovering his grandfather's wire recorder, he enjoyed listening to old family recordings.
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In the early days of audio recording, a wire recorder was a common device used by musicians.
Synonyms
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2.4
A machine that records and plays sound on tape
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3.2
A device that records or plays sound on magnetic tape
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2.7
A small machine that records and plays sound on cassette tapes
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4.6
A device that plays and records sound on cassette tapes
A device that uses magnetic tape or disk to save sound, pictures and data
A machine for recording and playing video or audio on tape
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound 'wire recorder' is directly compositional: it denotes a recorder that uses wire as its recording medium. A B1 learner who knows 'wire' and 'recorder' can reasonably infer this meaning because noun+noun instrument/medium constructions are common and follow standard, cross-linguistic patterns.
Etymology
Wire recorder comes from how the machine worked: it was an early recorder that used a thin steel wire to store and replay sounds. Because the sound was kept on the wire, the name now means a device that 'records and plays back sound'.