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Meanings of
phonograph
in English
Portuguese
toca-discos
Catalan
tocadiscs
Spanish
tocadiscos
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A device that plays the sound stored on a gramophone record.
gramophone
turntable
record player
Portuguese
toca-discos
Usage of
phonograph
in English
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.
6
He took the record home and put it on his own
phonograph
.
7
Edison's first model of the
phonograph
is shown in the following illustration.
8
He is able to store and preserve his voice in a
phonograph
.
9
But, look you, the very next day the carriers brought the
phonograph
.
10
Not long ago in our home we came across a long-unused
phonograph
.
11
There was fishing-tackle in profusion, and a battered
phonograph
on a table.
12
Noted for inventing, among other things, the
phonograph
and the incandescent bulb.
13
The
phonograph
went off into an inarticulate whirr of its own machinery.
14
We have had a most amusing time with the two
phonograph
chaps.
15
Somewhere across the street a
phonograph
started blaring out a jazz piece.
16
The Internationale had become blurred and discordant, like a bad
phonograph
record.
Other examples for "phonograph"
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About this term
phonograph
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
start the phonograph
first phonograph
old phonograph
have a phonograph
improve phonograph
More collocations
Translations for
phonograph
Portuguese
toca-discos
gramofone
fonógrafo
Catalan
tocadiscs
fonògraf
Spanish
tocadiscos
Phonograph
through the time
Phonograph
across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common