Crossword clues for gramophone
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gramophone \Gram"o*phone\, n. [Gr. ? a thing drawn or written (fr. ? write) + -phone, as in telephone. Originally a trademark.] An instrument for recording, preserving, and reproducing sounds, the record being a tracing of a phonautograph etched in some solid material. Reproduction is accomplished by means of a system attached to an elastic diaphragm. This older term is almost completely replaced for modern devices by the word phonograph (or hi-fi), and technological changes have made the term sound antiquated, and it is usually used to refer to older non-electronic versions of the phonograph.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1887, trademark by German-born U.S. inventor Emil Berliner (1851-1929), an inversion of phonogram (1884) "the tracing made by a phonograph needle," coined from Greek phone "voice, sound" (see fame (n.)) + gramma "something written" (see grammar).\n
\nBerliner's machine used a flat disc and succeeded with the public. Edison's phonograph used a cylinder and did not. Despised by linguistic purists (Weekley calls gramophone "An atrocity formed by reversing phonogram") who tried to at least amend it to grammophone, it was replaced by record player after mid-1950s.
Wiktionary
n. (context British dated English) A historic wind-up record player that acoustically reproduces sound from a disk rather than a cylinder record.
WordNet
n. an antique record player; the sound of the vibrating needle is amplified acoustically [syn: acoustic gramophone]
Wikipedia
Gramophone might refer to:
- A phonograph, the first device for recording and replaying sound. The two names were originally those used by rival manufacturers.
- Gramophone record, a disc shaped analogue sound recording medium
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Gramophone (magazine), a British publication devoted to classical music
- Gramophone Award, an award given to the best in the classical music recording industry and film, selected by the critics of Gramophone magazine.
- Gramophone Company, a British record company, existing from 1897 to 1931
- Gramophone Company of India, the former name of Sa Re Ga Ma, an Indian record company
- Berliner Gramophone, incorporated by Emile Berliner in 1892 in Washington, D.C. as the United States Gramophone Company
- Deutsche Grammophon, a German classical music record company, founded in 1898 by Emile Berliner
- Gramaphone Records, a music store in Chicago, known as the hub of House Music in that city
- Gramophone (film), a 2003 Indian film
Gramaphone is a 2003 Malayalam musical drama film by Kamal starring Dileep, Meera Jasmine and Navya Nair.
Gramophone is a magazine published monthly in London devoted to classical music, particularly to reviews of recordings. It was founded in 1923 by the Scottish author Compton Mackenzie. It was acquired by Haymarket in 1999. In 2013 the Mark Allen Group became the publisher
The magazine presents the Gramophone Awards each year to the classical recordings which it considers the finest in a variety of categories.
In the title bar of its website Gramophone claims to be: "The world's authority on classical music since 1923." This used to appear on the front cover of every issue; recent editions have changed the wording to "The world's best classical music reviews."
Its circulation, including digital subscribers, is 24,380:
Usage examples of "gramophone".
Highland flings and Irish step-dances on a raised wooden platform like a boxing ring, the music provided by a wind-up gramophone.
They saw a gramophone, a stack of records and a low bed covered with a batik cloth.
All he asks is that men shall live more simply, nearer to the earth, with more sense of the magic of things like vegetation, fire, water, sex, blood, than they can in a world of celluloid and concrete where the gramophones never stop playing.
They had celebrated in this evening’s brief dance in the English patient’s room their own simple adventures—Hana her sleep, Caravaggio his “finding” of the gramophone, and Kip a difficult defusing, though he had almost forgotten such a moment already.
She called Room Service for a large dry Martini and when it came she sat and smoked and played the gramophone and waited for 7.
It looked innocuous enough, a slim up-ended trunk, nothing like as pretty as the gramophones, but Pierre had a devious habit of brushing past it and switching it on without anybody noticing so it recorded three minutes of inane conversation.
Then he'd wait half an hour and play it back on one of the gramophones, much to Bry's amusement, since it was usually Spencer who got caught out saying the stupidest things.
The three gramophones greeted him like wide-mouthed dogs rising to welcome an old friend.
The three big gramophones were on separate tables carefully positioned around the bare wooden floor, along with the free-standing pier machine.
More like Bank Holiday at Margate, with gramophones and bathing-dresses and everybody barging into everybody else.
And while England in the moment of disaster proved to be short of every war material except ships, it is not recorded that there was any shortage of motor cars, fur coats, gramophones, lipstick, chocolates or silk stockings.
They handled a line of cheap gramophones, and did a little with musical boxes.
It presumes that the mechanical gramophones described above are being produced, and that a market for the classic 10" and 12" 78 rpm disc recordings exists.
Passing beneath the archway, he saw the open fireplace, set with bright Italian tiles, the upright piano, the old-fashioned gramophone.
Andy knew it was time to pull the string that was tied to the gramophone!