documenter

Meaning

1. 1nouncountable

   A person or tool that records and describes events, facts or processes in writing, images or other records.

   Grammar: Countable: she is the team's documenter.

   Patterns

   • a documenter of something
   • the documenter for something

   She served as the project's documenter, writing up every decision.

   The photographer was an informal documenter of village life.

   This software acts as an automatic documenter of your code.

Word forms

Common combinations

official documenter

He was the official documenter of the expedition.

careful documenter

She was a careful documenter of every experiment.

documenter of history

The old diarist became a documenter of history.

code documenter

The code documenter produced a manual from the comments.

appoint a documenter

We appointed a documenter to keep minutes.

Synonyms and how they differ

recorder

A recorder simply writes down or captures information, without the idea of explaining it in depth.

chronicler

A chronicler tells events in order and sounds more literary and historical.

documentarian

A documentarian usually makes documentary films or writes factual accounts, which is a narrower sense.

archivist

An archivist stores and organizes existing records, rather than creating them.

Word family

document verb

to record in detail

document noun

an official or written paper

documentation noun

written material that records or explains something

documentary noun

a factual film or program

Commonly confused: documenter or documentarian?

Practice

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