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turntable

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The circular rotating platform of a record player or DJ console on which the record rests during play. 2 A similar device to be connected to the amplifier of a hi-fi system. 3 A circular rotating platform used for turning locomotives, cars or trucks. ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also turn-table , "circular platform designed to turn upon its center," 1835, originally in the railroad sense, from turn (v.) + table (n.). The record-player sense is attested from 1908.

Usage examples of turntable.

And the last booth, the one with a view of the turntable, the podium, and the movements of the audience, the one manned by Max Richard, his fellow Interpol agents, and two men from the FBI, the one with a dozen monitors being fed images from all over the salesroom and adjoining galleries, the one that was searching for Peter von Gelder-that booth, too, was ready.

I said, handing her a glass of beer, watching as she put a Bob Seger record on the turntable.

Devon had quickly discovered her rather extensive stereo system and had loaded the turntable with a stack of semiclassical albums.

UPON a time, dear reader, multimedia meant a book with pictures and a long-playing vinyl record to pop on your turntable and listen to as you turn the pages in a synaesthetic trance.

They were always getting frantic over nothing, but when Zarah revolved on the turntable down below, they went completely out of their heads.

Sawtelle took a disk from the cabinet, put it on one of the three turntables, and adjusted a couple of dials.

Her husband, his nose twitching, had idled over to the still moving turntables and was gingerly poking a finger at one of them.

Five minutes later I looked up and found them still watching me, huddled about 20 feet away behind the sky-blue Z-28 Chevvy on its slow-moving turntable.

When you pull the string, it activates a spring that makes that little rubber belt drive the turntable.

He marked these depths with charcoal and then, helped by Beppe's augmented crew of fifteen, roped the column, attached a block and tackle, slowly raised it to stand upright on Sangallo's turntable.

Electrostatic pickups above and below the turntable would fluctuate with changes in the dielectric constant which had been impressed by the recording, and these changes were amplified for the scanners.

And with a sharp slap of the foot pedal, he gave the turntable another whirl, the long rectangular paddle spanking both my buttocks with a shattering crack, driving me frantically to struggle for balance.

The tuned reed technique is good for checking the frequency of the motor drive current, but short of sticking a series of fridge magnets round the rim (not, I suppose, impossible) it doesn't work for the turntable.

You'll be harnessed to pull a good-sized basket of fruit back to my town house, and I want to be done with all that so that by high noon when the crowd is at its daytime thickest you can be punished on the Public Turntable.

The book he had been reading when Lady Cunningham had shown in Aubrey lay on the occasional table at the side of his chair, the Bach to which he had been listening lay still on the turntable, his half-glasses rested on the end of his patrician nose, and his lips were set in a firm, expressionless line.