单词 | unrecordable |
释义 | unrecordableadj. That cannot be recorded; (of language, a statement, etc.) unfit to be set down on record; (of sound, a transmission, level of activity, etc.) that cannot be registered or reproduced by recording equipment. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > [adjective] > recorded > able to be > not irrecordable1623 unrecordable1822 1822 C. Lloyd Duke d'Ormond iv. iii. 231 The art has Courtenaye of inflicting pain, Yet his foil aiming with such subtle skill That all its strokes are, e'en when most they wound, Unrecognizable, invisible, And unrecordable! 1874 M. Collins Transmigr. III. xviii. 271 That delicious unrecordable nonsense which some people fancy can only be talked once in a life-time. 1913 W. J. Locke Stella Maris viii. 97 The gutter child's vernacular came to her aid; she called him unrecordable things. 1983 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 3 Apr. ii. 21/1 Ambient quiet is needed to hear the softest whispers (unrecordable on earlier disks) while climactic moments..demand strong amplifiers and potent loudspeakers. 1991 Pop. Sci. Nov. 98/1 A special copy-protection code, embedded in the signal, will render it [sc. the movie] unrecordable. 2005 S. Parnia What happens when we Die (2006) iv. 88 Immediately after cardiac arrest, blood pressure drops to unrecordable levels. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1822 |
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