Associations to the word «Phonograph»

PHONOGRAPH, noun. Literally, a device that captures sound waves onto an engraved archive; a lathe.

PHONOGRAPH, noun. (British) (historical) A device that records or plays sound from cylinder records.

PHONOGRAPH, noun. (North America) Early term for a record player.

PHONOGRAPH, noun. (dated) A character or symbol used to represent a sound, especially one used in phonography.

PHONOGRAPH, verb. (transitive) (dated) To record for playback by phonograph.

PHONOGRAPH, verb. (transitive) (dated) To transcribe into phonographic symbols.

PHONOGRAPH RECORD, noun. A disk usually made of a polymer used to record sound for playback on a phonograph.

PHONOGRAPH RECORDS, noun. Plural of phonograph record

PHONOGRAPH, noun. Machine in which rotating records cause a stylus to vibrate and the vibrations are amplified acoustically or electronically.