Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A character or symbol, as in a phonetic alphabet, representing a word or phoneme in speech.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A graphic character representing a sound of the human voice.
- noun The record of sound produced by a phonograph, or the sheet of tin-foil or cylinder of wax on which it is produced.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A letter, character, or mark used to represent a particular sound.
- noun A record of sounds made by a phonograph.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun linguistics A group of letters which share the same letter combination associated with a sound, such as
rhyming words.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any written symbol standing for a sound or syllable or morpheme or word
Etymologies
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Examples
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A pupil thinks of a word containing a known phonogram, which is communicated to the teacher.
How to Teach Phonics Lida M. Williams
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Recognition of extended or clarified rights for copyright owners: for example, a right to control distribution of copies of creations, and a right to control communications of a work, including the “making available” of a work or phonogram to the public in an interactive manner.
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Recognition of extended or clarified rights for copyright owners: for example, a right to control distribution of copies of creations, and a right to control communications of a work, including the “making available” of a work or phonogram to the public in an interactive manner.
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The Commission has conceded that "phonogram producers will focus on re-issuing the premium CDs during the extended term, i.e., those with very high profit margins".
Archive 2009-03-08 2009
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Xtive applied for a domestic patent for the phonogram and is looking to take advantage of the technology in other sectors.
Boing Boing 2007
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I am beginning to think that perhaps there may have been a conflation of two different concepts one Rhaettic the other Germanic that used the same phonogram ALU.
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I really see no reason why the newspaper of the future should not come to the subscriber in the shape of a phonogram … Think what a musical critic might be able to do for his public!
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I lived in London fifteen or so years ago, was a poor (impoverished) student, and then a poor actor, signed a record deal with phonogram, and became a not quite so poor actor/singer in a rock band.
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I really see no reason why the newspaper of the future should not come to the subscriber in the shape of a phonogram … Think what a musical critic might be able to do for his public!
Technology & Innovation Philip G. Hubert Jr. 2006
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I ran back to the phonogram and replayed the record, and there they were: the DE DO DO DO number's structure is precisely the same as that of an ancient Xhosan nursery rhyme, with a philosophical twist stolen from Gertrude Stein ( "A rose is a rose ...") or perhaps Dylan Thomas or Allen Ginsberg.
Zenyatta Mondatta 1980
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