Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A record player; a phonograph.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An instrument for permanently recording and reproducing sounds by means of a tracing made on the principle of the phonautogram and etched into some solid material.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolescent An instrument for recording, preserving, and reproducing sounds, the record being a tracing of a phonautograph etched in some solid material. Reproduction is accomplished by means of a system attached to an elastic diaphragm. This older term is almost completely replaced for modern devices by the word
phonograph (orhi-fi ), and technological changes have made the term sound antiquated, and it is usually used to refer to older non-electronic versions of the phonograph.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK, dated A
historic wind-up record player thatacoustically reproduces sound from adisk rather than acylinder record .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an antique record player; the sound of the vibrating needle is amplified acoustically
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The song "It" that was recently posted on said the gramophone is another highlight, with a wonderful accordian part.
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The song "It" that was recently posted on said the gramophone is another highlight, with a wonderful accordian part.
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The gramophone is a machine for recording such tunes as certain shops and other organisations choose to sell.
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Decided the gramophone was a bit unwieldy and switched to MP3 myself.
Going against my better judgment and being proved right and wrong at the same time Norfolk Blogger 2009
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The gramophone is a machine for recording such tunes as certain shops and other organisations choose to sell.
Vintage Distributism Athanasius 2007
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The gramophone is a machine for recording such tunes as certain shops and other organisations choose to sell.
Archive 2007-08-01 John M 2007
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The flowers on the table are in a German shell for vase, and the gramophone was another village "find."
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Then a gramophone is a necessity, and all kinds of records will be necessary -- Beethoven, Stravinsky, Rimski-Korsikoff, Harry Lauder, Fox
A Dominie in Doubt Alexander Sutherland Neill 1928
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Bury That bit about Sousa being scared of the gramophone was a great comparison.
Top News Digg 2012
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Marty: The gramophone is the origin of recording and sharing music.
Chinalyst - China blogs in English gochengdoo 2010
brtom commented on the word gramophone
"Outside the gramophone begins to blare The Holy City." Joyce, Ulysses, 15
January 1, 2008