magnetic recorder
- noun
- /mæɡˈnɛtɪk rɪˈkɔrdər/
- Specialized
:
grabadora magnética
- The journalist used a magnetic recorder to capture the entire interview for later transcription.
Examples
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Many documentaries from the 1970s were preserved on magnetic recorders before digital technology became widespread.
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A faulty magnetic recorder can cause audio dropouts or loss of important data.
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The magnetic recorder captured the concert perfectly.
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Can you fix my magnetic recorder?
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The journalist used a magnetic recorder to capture the entire interview for later transcription.
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Many documentaries from the 1970s were preserved on magnetic recorders before digital technology became widespread.
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A faulty magnetic recorder can cause audio dropouts or loss of important data.
Synonyms
177
2.6
A device that saves sound or images for later playback
110
3.2
A machine that plays and records video on tape
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2.4
A machine that records and plays sound on tape
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4.7
A machine that plays or records sound on cassette tapes
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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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4.3
A machine that records and plays television shows on tape
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5.2
A machine that reads and writes data on magnetic tape to save copies of files
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3.4
A machine that makes and stores sound or video
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9.8
An old machine that saves sound on thin metal wire and plays it back
A machine for recording and playing video or audio on tape
A device that records two or more separate sound channels at the same time
How Portable
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is compositionally transparent: 'magnetic' qualifies the noun 'recorder', indicating a recorder that uses magnetism or magnetic media. A B1 learner who knows both constituents can readily infer it refers to a device that records onto magnetic tape or disks, a common and cross-linguistically regular adjectival modification pattern.
Etymology
Magnetic recorder comes from a simple image: a machine that 'writes' sound using tiny magnets on a tape or disk. Here magnetic points to those tiny magnets and recorder means the machine that stores the sound, so the phrase means a device that records sound or data on tape or disk.