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phonograph

[ foh-nuh-graf, -grahf ]

noun

  1. any sound-reproducing machine using records in the form of cylinders or discs.


phonograph

/ ˈfəʊnəˌɡrɑːf; -ˌɡræf /

noun

  1. an early form of gramophone capable of recording and reproducing sound on wax cylinders
  2. Also calledgramophonerecord player a device for reproducing the sounds stored on a record: now usually applied to the nearly obsolete type that uses a clockwork motor and acoustic horn
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of phonograph1

1825–35 in sense “phonogram”; 1877 for the “talking phonograph” invented by T. A. Edison; phono- + -graph
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Example Sentences

The entertainment featured a phonograph recording of the late Thomas Edison and a radio show broadcast from a plane flying overhead.

Radio broadcasts, phonograph recordings, and talking films were bringing culture to the masses.

There was some sort of a phonograph device under the cowl of that get-away car, and this was hooked up to the radio switch.

In the early Edison phonograph the sound vibrations were registered on a tinfoil-covered cylinder.

It was then that he straightened away from her and looked without seeing at the blur of light which was the phonograph.

The one electric lamp was lighted, so that the phonograph in one corner became only a bit of reflected light.

When the steel point of a compass is lost, a phonograph needle makes a good substitute.

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