phonograph
IPA: fˈoʊnʌgræf
noun
- A device that captures sound waves onto an engraved archive; a lathe.
- (Britain, historical) A device that records or plays sound from cylinder records.
- (Canada, US, historical) A record player.
- (dated) A character or symbol used to represent a sound, especially one used in phonography.
verb
- (transitive, dated) To record for playback by phonograph.
- (transitive, dated) To transcribe into phonographic symbols.
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Examples of "phonograph" in Sentences
- My dad played the phonograph all the time.
- The songs were recorded with the 78 rpm phonograph.
- The phonograph winds up, and the needle touches the record.
- His most famous inventions were the electric light and the phonograph.
- Edison patented the sound recording and reproducing phonograph in 1878.
- In 1889 he invented a nickel in the slot attachment for the phonograph.
- He may have adopted it for the phonograph, but he was hardly the inventor.
- The famous phonograph was the fourth device for recording and replaying sound.
- The gramaphone was an Edison cylinder phonograph with wax placed in the groves.
- Additionally, he was the recording manager of the Black Swan Phonograph Company.
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