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Recorder vs Fife - What's the difference?

recorder | fife |

As nouns the difference between recorder and fife

is that recorder is an apparatus for recording; a device which records while fife is a small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music.

As a verb fife is

to play this instrument.

As a proper noun Fife is

a traditional county of Scotland now a Unitary Authority, situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with landward boundaries to Perth and Kinross and Clackmannanshire.

recorder

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) recordour, from (etyl) recordeor, from .

Noun

(en noun)
  • An apparatus for recording; a device which records.
  • Agent noun of record; one who records.
  • A judge in a municipal court.
    • Derived terms
    * magnetic recorder * recordership * tape recorder * wire recorder

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl), from

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (musici) A musical instrument of the woodwind family, fipple flute, a simple internal duct flute.

    • References

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    Anagrams

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    fife

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music

    • Verb

    (fif)
  • To play this instrument.

    • Anagrams

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