PHONOGRAPH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does phonograph mean? 

• PHONOGRAPH (noun)
  The noun PHONOGRAPH has 1 sense:

1. machine in which rotating records cause a stylus to vibrate and the vibrations are amplified acoustically or electronically

  Familiarity information: PHONOGRAPH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHONOGRAPH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

phonograph; record player

Hypernyms ("phonograph" is a kind of...):

machine (any mechanical or electrical device that transmits or modifies energy to perform or assist in the performance of human tasks)

Meronyms (parts of "phonograph"):

cartridge; pickup (an electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable)

radio chassis (a chassis for a radio receiver)

auto-changer; changer; record changer (an automatic mechanical device on a record player that causes new records to be played without manual intervention)

pickup; pickup arm; tone arm (mechanical device consisting of a light balanced arm that carries the cartridge)

turntable (a circular horizontal platform that rotates a phonograph record while it is being played)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "phonograph"):

acoustic gramophone; gramophone (an antique record player; the sound of the vibrating needle is amplified acoustically)

jukebox; nickelodeon (a cabinet containing an automatic record player; records are played by inserting a coin)

Holonyms ("phonograph" is a part of...):

audio system; sound system (a system of electronic equipment for recording or reproducing sound)

 Context examples 

I shall take this cylinder with me, and then I can complete my entry on Lucy's phonograph.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

All this have I told these others; you, my dear Madam Mina, will learn it in the phonograph of my friend John, or in that of your husband.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He carried the phonograph himself up to my sitting-room and adjusted it for me.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He brought back the phonograph from my room, and I took my typewriter.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I am to relieve them in a quarter of an hour, and I am entering this on Lucy's phonograph.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He was quite alone, and on the table opposite him was what I knew at once from the description to be a phonograph.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

When I read to Mina, Van Helsing's message in the phonograph, the poor girl brightened up considerably.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

"Your diary?" I asked him in surprise. "Yes," he answered. "I keep it in this." As he spoke he laid his hand on the phonograph.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He accordingly set the phonograph at a slow pace, and I began to typewrite from the beginning of the seventh cylinder.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

So here I am finishing my entry in my phonograph diary whilst I await her.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)