transcriptorn.
rare. † a. = transcriber n. 1. Obsolete.
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society > communication > writing > writer > [noun] > copyist
librarya1382
scribe1535
exemplifier1552
stationer1576
copier1597
transcriber1610
transcriptor1617
copy-clerk1623
exscribera1631
bibliographer1656
calligrapher1662
librarian1670
copist1682
copyist1699
calligraph1801
copiator1811
calligraphist1816
copying clerk1836
chirographer1848
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 29 The Transcriptor fifty three shillings foure pence.
1811 in 2nd Rep. Rec. Irel. 141 A Transcript of the Process..lodged with the Transcriptor and Foreign Apposer, previously to passing his Accounts for the year of his Sheriffalty.
b. = transcriber n. 2.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > sound recording or reproducing equipment > [noun]
talking machine1844
recorder1867
phonograph1877
dictating machine1878
melograph1879
melodiographa1884
graphophone1886
photographophone1901
auxetophone1904
Dictaphone1906
telediphone1931
transcriber1931
wire recorder1934
sound truck1936
high fidelity1938
Soundscriber1946
player1948
rig1950
transcriptor1957
unit1966
sequencer1975
boom box1981
ghetto blaster1983
beat-box1985
1957 Pract. Wireless 33 532/2 Tape transcriptors are also supplied by Collaro.
1958 Punch 17 Sept. 366/3 Anita types. You scarcely see The neat transcriptor at her ear. The tape turns confidentially, And no one else can overhear.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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