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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
playback
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
playback singer
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ You can skip the commercials during playback.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And only the remote has a digital readout, listing the track number and playback functions.
▪ I want to see a playback.
▪ If the recording was made so that student performance could be assessed then obviously playback is essential.
▪ It is important to remember this when it comes to playback and this is discussed in the next section.
▪ It uses a mode dial on the top to switch on the camera and select between manual, automatic and playback modes.
▪ Multimedia Presentation Manager/2 is included and adds enhanced audio, basic image and software motion video playback capabilities.
▪ Signals are passed from the recorder to the playback controller and then to a stereo ready monitor.
▪ The subwoofer, responsible for much of the realism in movie playback, is particularly compromised in such a small design.
Wiktionary
playback

n. The replaying of previously recorded sound or moving images.

WordNet
playback
  1. n. the act of reproducing recorded sound; "he was allowed to hear the playback of his testimony"

  2. electronic equipment comprising the part of a tape recorder that reproduces the recorded material

Wikipedia
Playback

Playback may refer to:

  • Playback (1962 film), a film in the series
  • Playback, 1996 thriller film starring Shannon Whirry
  • Playback (film), 2012 thriller/horror film starring Toby Hemingway
  • Playback Theatre, a form of improvisational theatre
  • Universal Playback, UK label of Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Playback (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers album)

Playback is a box set compilation by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, released in 1995. It contains popular album tracks, B-sides, previously unreleased outtakes, and early songs by Petty's previous band Mudcrutch.

A companion VHS home video, later released on DVD, was also released, featuring the band's most popular music videos to date.

Playback (novel)

Playback is a novel by Raymond Chandler, featuring the private detective Philip Marlowe. It was first published in Britain in July 1958; the US edition followed in October that year. Chandler died the following year; Playback is his last completed novel.

Playback (SSQ album)

Playback is the debut studio album by American synthpop band SSQ, released in 1983 by Enigma Records and EMI America Records. It is the only album the band ever put out and it remains their last full-length release. The band later worked on their lead singer Stacey Q's debut album Better Than Heaven and her sophomore Hard Machine.

"Synthicide", "Big Electronic Beat" and "Clockwork" appeared on the soundtrack of the 1984 film Hardbodies. "Synthicide" and "Anonymous" appeared on the soundtrack of the 1985 film Cavegirl.

The album was re-released on July 10, 2014 by F1 Music as a digital download on iTunes and Amazon.

Playback (magazine)

Playback is an online Canadian film, broadcasting and interactive media trade journal owned by Brunico Communications. It was previously published biweekly as a print magazine and is widely popular in the Canadian entertainment industry, considered to be a "must read" amongst industry professionals.

Playback (song)

"Playback" was the Portuguese entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1981, performed in Portuguese by Carlos Paião.

The song is a moderately up-tempo number. Paião satirizes the "singing in playback", which he explains is in fact miming to pre-recorded music (the anglicism "playback" is used in Portugal to mean "lip synch", broadened from " playback singer"). By doing this, he points out, one does not have to risk singing out of tune or missing notes.

He sang the song with the help of four backup singers, who were dressed in multicolored jumpsuits and acted as robots of sorts, emphasizing the playback theme. From left to right, these singers were Pedro Calvinho, Cristina Águas, Ana Bola, and Peter Petersen.

The song was performed fifteenth on the night, following the United Kingdom's Bucks Fizz with " Making Your Mind Up" and preceding Belgium's Emly Starr with " Samson". At the close of voting, it had received 9 points, placing 18th in a field of 20.

It was succeeded as Portuguese representative at the 1982 Contest by Doce with " Bem bom".

Playback (Sam Lazar album)

Playback is an album by organist Sam Lazar released on the Argo label.

Playback (Phi Life Cypher album)

Playback is the fourth album by the Luton-based hip hop group Phi Life Cypher. It mostly comprises new material, but also contains A-sides not released on previous Phi-Life Cypher albums ("Over", "Cypher Funk", "The Shining") and tracks from other artists which featured Phi-Life Cypher ("Cordless Mics at 20 Paces", "Distinguished Jamaican English", "Ghetto Rebels").

Playback (film)

Playback is a 2012 horror film directed and written by Michael A. Nickles. Pre-production of the film started in June 2010 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. John M. Bennett and Lawrence Robbins are the producers of the film. The film stars Alessandra Torresani, Ambyr Childers, Johnny Pacar, Toby Hemingway, Jonathan Keltz, Jennifer Missoni, and Christian Slater.

Playback (The Appletree Theatre album)

Playback was an album recorded by The Appletree Theatre in 1967.

The project was set up by brothers Terry and John Boylan. It was written, directed and performed by the Boylan brothers, supported by leading jazz session musicians including Larry Coryell and Eric Gale.

Playback was essentially a loosely woven concept album, divided into three acts, an overture, and an epilogue, with full-length pop songs such as "Hightower Square" and "I Wonder If Louise Is Home" linked by vocal narratives and snatches of music, including elements of jazz, acid rock, and classical music, sometimes given distorted sonic treatment. It was released on the Verve Forecast label in the US and UK in 1968, with a different cover to the UK re-release from 1972 on the MGM Records label. John Lennon, in a 1968 interview with Penny Nichols in London, called Playback one of his favourite new albums, and Philip Proctor acknowledged its influence on his own group, The Firesign Theatre. Time magazine stated that "this cycle of rock songs is an explosion of surprises, blending fey whimsy with just plain loony-bin clowning."

In the wake of the album's commercial failure Terry went solo, releasing three albums as a singer/songwriter, while John reappeared as a member of the short-lived Hamilton Streetcar before turning his attention to production with the Eagles, Linda Ronstadt, and others. Three of the songs on the album - "I Wonder If Louise Is Home", "Don't Blame It on Your Wife", and "Barefoot Boy" - were released before by Ricky Nelson on his 1967 album Another Side of Rick, in which both the Boylan brothers were involved.

Playback was reissued on CD in 2007, with the different cover of the UK re-release from 1972.

Playback (South Korean band)

Playback is a four-member K-pop girl group signed under Coridel Entertainment. They officially debuted on June 25, 2015, with the digital single "Playback". The members consist of Yena, Hayoung, Soyun and Woolim.

Usage examples of "playback".

Then individual playback equipment began to revolt, and the collective excreta really hit the propulsive turbine.

First Mandy dialed her own number and activated the playback on her answering machine.

Behind the first closed door was a windowless office, almost bare but for a utilitarian desk on which stood a printer and small photocopier, and, against the wall, a self-contained video playback unit and a stack of tapes.

Manor, Ken Cryer switched off the playback, rose from his swivel chair and stretched.

Counting taxes, that would be eight bucks and change for a complete digital recording playback device that contained enough nonvolatile memory to record ten seconds of audio at a capture rate of, he guessed, around 11 kilohertz.

Now Obie selected his starting point and the scene went into playback.

The Riirgaans and the Bursteeni and the Tchi all scurried off to their embassies, to pore over the playback, in the vain hope that their translation programs had succeeded in furthering their understanding another percentile point or two.

The state is produced by the playback of recorded data of events in the past, involving real people, real times, real places, real decisions, and real feelings.

Lauren was stunned into silence, her head running playbacks of that famous face in some of the files she had seen.

She slapped on the playback, turned up the volume, but he was caterwauling so loudly about Section 49 that he couldn't have heard it.

Kwon and Vale weren't anywhere within ten klicks of Henslowe at the moment, but with a simple disk recording plus Skyler's skillful hand on the playback selector any eavesdropping collies should be convinced a major attack was in progress.

The audio track, its pitch adjusted to run at just less than twice the standard playback speed, was part of a month-old newscast detailing potential military uses of a substance known as HsG, a biochemical governing the human skeletal growth factor.

Despite his remarkable store of personal knowledge he found himself having to halt the playback and refer constantly to his reference texts.

For half a minute, we heard only the hiss of unrecorded magnetic tape passing over the playback head.

Against the larger‑than‑life figures of Pia and Nayyar, kissing mangoes as they mouthed to playback music, the figure of a timorous, inadequately bearded man was seen, marching on to the stage beneath the screen, microphone in hand.