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phonograph

/foh-nuh-graf, -grahf/US // ˈfoʊ nəˌgræf, -ˌgrɑf //UK // (ˈfəʊnəˌɡrɑːf, -ˌɡræf) //

留声机,电唱机,听筒,音像机

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any sound-reproducing machine using records in the form of cylinders or discs.

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Examples

  • 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.