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Recorder vs Greffier - What's the difference?

recorder | greffier |

As nouns the difference between recorder and greffier

is that recorder is an apparatus for recording; a device which records or recorder can be (musici) a musical instrument of the woodwind family, fipple flute, a simple internal duct flute while greffier is (obsolete) a registrar or recorder; a notary.

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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    greffier

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A registrar or recorder; a notary.
  • * Bishop Joseph Hall
    • One thing I may not omit, without sinful oversight; a short, but memorable story, which the Greffier of that town, though of different religion, reported to more ears than ours.
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