"Recorders" Natural Recordings by Native Speakers
Recorders refer to several items:
1. A musical instrument, often used in schools, resembling a simple woodwind instrument with a long tube and finger holes.
2. A device used to record sound or data, often in the form of a handheld or digital device.
3. A type of notebook or account book used for keeping track of transactions, events, or data.
4. A verb meaning to keep a record of something, to document or preserve information.
Describing a record that has been broken, or an achievement that is the best in a particular field or over a particular period, until its own record might be broken. For example: "The athlete's record-breaking time took her to the top of the Olympic rankings."