phonograph

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Scrabble points
21
Words With Friends
23
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/ˈfəʊnəˌɡɹɑːf/
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/ˈfəʊnəˌɡɹɑːf/ · /ˈfoʊnəˌɡɹæf/

Definition of phonograph

6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A device that captures sound waves onto an engraved archive; a lathe.
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noun

  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.
    “[…]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.

verb

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

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From phono- + -graph.

Hooks

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