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Meanings of gramophone in English
An antique record player; the sound of the vibrating needle is amplified acoustically.
Synonyms
Examples for "phonograph"
Examples for "phonograph"
1
He wanted me to bring him phonograph records and enclosed a list.
2
It was in 1877 that Thomas Alva Edison completed the first phonograph.
3
There were a player-piano and a fine phonograph in the big drawing-room.
4
They are all given on one of the cylinders of the phonograph:-
5
Between the fireplace and the phonograph table is a stand for newspapers.
1
Does this thing work? He lifted the plastic cover over the turntable.
2
He stepped back into the turntable room to leave through the tunnel.
3
Henry's microphone stands beside a table mounted with his speakers and turntable.
4
The whole set consists of a receiver, amp, turntable, and bookshelf speakers.
5
A final pivot on the turntable reveals the tail of the car.
1
The recorded voice ceased; for a moment the record player hummed voicelessly.
2
The last mass-market record player was made more than a generation ago.
3
Unfortunately my record player is kaput so I haven't tested these features.
4
To you and me, it's a record player with a USB plug.
5
I walked over to the record player and turned off something raucous.
Usage of gramophone in English
1
I'd love to see your place, and I could bring my gramophone.
2
Then it was that the surmise about the gramophone recurred to me.
3
Onlookers can take home a 'hidden' gramophone if they can find it.
4
But perhaps Kringström was in his soundproof room listening to gramophone records?
5
The clever footman started the gramophone, and Lady Queenie began to dance.
6
It had been a favourite on the gramophone in Tuppence's hospital days.
7
It turns out to be a Russian learning English via gramophone records.
8
A faulty gramophone spat out the tune of Come Back to Erin.
9
Mr. Price had suddenly begun to live arduously for the gramophone alone.
10
Are these the voices of our dead friends, or just the gramophone?
11
Inside was a wireless and a gramophone combined-oh ,themost wonderful thing!
12
Pam-ta-tam, he sings, and he stops by the gramophone and stays there.
13
A gramophone starts playing, and when she reappears she's carrying a trombone.
14
When it eventually arrived, he celebrated by playing Tannhäuser on his gramophone.
15
The macaw had been a case in point, the gramophone another.
16
On the table was a gramophone-anold-fashionedtype with a large trumpet attached.
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