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phonograph

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Literally, a device that captures sound waves onto an engraved archive; a lathe. 2 (context British historical English) A device that records or plays sound from cylinder records. 3 (context North America English) ''Early term for'' a record player. ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. machine in which rotating records cause a stylus to vibrate and the vibrations are amplified acoustically or electronically [syn: record player ]

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
The phonograph is a device invented in 1877 for the mechanical recording and reproduction of sound . In its later forms it is also called a gramophone (as a trademark since 1887, as a generic name since c. 1900). The sound vibration waveforms are recorded ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1835, "character representing a sound," literally "writer of sounds," from phono- "sound" + -graph "instrument for recording; something written." Meaning "an instrument that produces sounds from records" ( talking phonograph , invented by Thomas A. Edison) ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Phonograph \Pho"no*graph\, n. [Phono- + -graph.] A character or symbol used to represent a sound, esp. one used in phonography. (Physics) An instrument for the mechanical registration and reproduction of audible sounds, as articulate speech, etc. It consists ...

Usage examples of phonograph.

Saint stood unflinchingly, Amity clinging aghast to his arm, Warlock lifted the record and went through the dramatic gesture of smashing it against the corner of the phonograph.

But there was no vibration whatever, The sound was therefore a purely mechanical one, reproduced on a phonograph record to deceive Lifer Stone and frighten him into talking.

Walking by the cottage, Norman could hear the phonograph and the barking dog, and he could sometimes see Iris shadowily moving inside.

A bottle of white fluid sat on the table by the phonograph, and on a smaller table on her other side a swinging rack cradled a gallon of muscatel, tiltable for pouring.

Witnesses were convicted under a statute which forbade the unlicensed soliciting of funds on the representation that they were for religious or charitable purposes, and also on a general charge of breach of the peace by accosting in a strongly Catholic neighborhood two communicants of that faith and playing to them a phonograph record which grossly insulted the Christian religion in general and the Catholic church in particular.

Except for his clothes, they were the last throwable things Dugan might have used to damage the phonograph and records.

For instance, what did the original, unrevised formula have in place of the phonograph needle?

June the phonograph record came - shipped from Brattleboro, since Akeley was unwilling to trust conditions on the branch line north of there.

The phonograph was a Capehart and the albums included a little bit of every-thing from Bunny Berrigan to J.

It came from an odd-shaped, clocklike instrument that rested on a large recording phonograph.

On one of his last trips to Europe he brought back the first phonograph with a trumpet speaker, along with many of the latest popular records as well as those by his favorite classical composers.

I told her that she was to have all the papers in the safe, and all the papers or diaries and phonographs we might hereafter use, and was to keep the record as she had done before.

The phonograph He picked up Halvorsens Entrance of the Boyards at random and slipped it into place, closing the lid.

Among the trees, upon a lawn, someone had cranked up a portable phonograph and now it was playing softly, "I'll be loving you, always, with a love that's true, always.

The descrambler, which must have an identical disk precisely synchronized with that of the scrambler, subtracts the phonograph signal out, leaving the voice.