phonograph

See also: Phonograph

English

Etymology

From phono- +‎ -graph.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfəʊnəˌɡɹɑːf/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfoʊnəˌɡɹæf/

Noun

phonograph (plural phonographs)

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.
   • 1937, John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men, Covici Friede:

     […] 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.

Synonyms

• (cylinder player): talking phonograph
• (turntable): gramophone (British), record player

Derived terms

• phonograph record

Translations

device that records or plays sound from cylinder records

• Bulgarian: фонограф m (fonograf)
• Catalan: fonògraf m
• Czech: fonograf m
• Danish: fonograf c
• Finnish: fonografi (fi)
• German: Phonograph (de) m
• Greek: φωνογράφος (el) m (fonográfos)
• Hawaiian: pahu ʻōlelo
• Italian: fonografo (it) m
• Macedonian: фо́нограф (fónograf)
• Polish: fonograf (pl) m, adapter (pl) m
• Portuguese: fonógrafo (pt) m
• Russian: фоно́граф (ru) m (fonógraf)
• Spanish: fonógrafo (es) m

archaic record player — see record player

Verb

phonograph (third-person singular simple present phonographs, present participle phonographing, simple past and past participle phonographed)

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

Further reading

• phonograph on Wikipedia.Wikipedia