phonograph

English

Etymology

From phono- +‎ -graph.

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.
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

• Catalan: fonògraf m
• Czech: fonograf m
• Finnish: fonografi (fi)
• Greek: φωνογράφος (el) m (fonográfos)
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• Portuguese: fonógrafo (pt) m
• Russian: фоно́граф (ru) m (fonógraf)
• Spanish: fonógrafo (es) m

archaic record player — see gramophone

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