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n. (context British colloquial English) a public address system
WordNet
n. a loudspeaker
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Tannoy Ltd is a Scotland-based manufacturer of loudspeakers and public-address (PA) systems. The company was founded by Guy Fountain in London, England as Tulsemere Manufacturing Company in 1926, but has been based in Coatbridge, Scotland, since the 1970s. Since 2002 it has been a part of the Danish-based TC Group ( TC Electronic, TC-Helicon, Lab.gruppen, Lake, TC Applied Technologies and White Acoustics).
The name Tannoy is a syllabic abbreviation of tantalum alloy, which was the material used in a type of electrolytic rectifier developed by the company. The brand was trademarked by 10 March 1932, on which date the Tulsemere Manufacturing Company formally registered as Guy R. Fountain Limited.
It became a household name as a result of supplying PA systems to the armed forces during World War II, and to Butlins and Pontins holiday camps after the war. Identification being such because the company logo name was prominently shown on the speaker grills. This usage is current as of mid-2010. Tannoy is famous for its 'Dual Concentric' speaker design, which places the tweeter behind the centre of the medium or bass driver. 'Dual Concentric' is a trademark although Tannoy is not the only speaker manufacturer to design coaxial speakers.
Tannoy's image is particularly linked to studio monitors on the one hand and its Prestige range of home speakers on the other. Prestige speakers use Dual Concentric cone speakers and are easily recognisable by their 'vintage' design.
The term 'tannoy' is often used generically in colloquial English throughout the British Commonwealth to mean any public-address system or even as a verb - to "tannoy", particularly those used for announcements in public places; although the word is a registered trademark, it has become a genericised trademark. The company's intellectual property department keeps a close eye on the media. To preserve its trademark, it often writes to publications that use its trade name without a capital letter or as a generic term for a PA system.
Usage examples of "tannoy".
The train was running a little late, a muffled voice over the Tannoy told her, so she took herself off to the buffet.
The voice of Frank, the manager, entered the tea room through the Tannoy speaker.
He flipped a switch to the tannoy which stood alongside a photograph of his wife.
She growled in frustration, the bass notes of her voice vibrating the tannoy diaphragms.
Bancroft was wired with internal tannoy, like everyone else at Suntouch House it seemed.
I surmised, already hearing the specs-rich vocabulary that Carnage used come tumbling out over the tannoy, the killing ring drenched in focused white light, the roaring, surging crowd in the darkened seating, the smell of sweat and bloodlust.
When the destination of the approaching train was announced over the Tannoy, Lucinda Marsh quietly addressed her child.
We stand around in the coach station in silence, inhaling diesel fumes and listening to the tannoy.
There was the call to readiness on the Tannoy and the revving up at the dispersal points.
I could hear the words echoing from tannoys in the compartments sternward.
I ran two seconds of feedback through the tannoys as an attention signal, then announced, "Five minutes to liftoff.
His voice was soft, but the PA system's software corrected to boom the words at full audible level from the tannoys in all the compartments.
Thirty of us were crowded into the forward compartment, and his words echoed on the tannoys to the remainder of the crew.
The tannoys thundered her words an instant out of synch with her lips.
So when his friends hear the results on a Saturday, on national radio and television, or on the tannoys of other League grounds, they think, simply, “Neil Kaas” when they hear the Luton score.