phonograph

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English

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Etymology

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From phono- +‎ -graph.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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phonograph (plural phonographs)

  1. A device that captures sound waves onto an engraved archive; a lathe.
  2. (British, historical) A device that records or plays sound from cylinder records.
  3. (Canada, US, historical) A record player.
    • 1937, John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men, Covici Friede:
      [] I've knew people that if they got a rag rug on the floor and a kewpie doll lamp on the phonograph they think they're runnin' a parlor house.'
  4. (dated) A character or symbol used to represent a sound, especially one used in phonography.

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Verb

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phonograph (third-person singular simple present phonographs, present participle phonographing, simple past and past participle phonographed)

  1. (transitive, dated) To record for playback by phonograph.
  2. (transitive, dated) To transcribe into phonographic symbols.

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