Synonyms:
record_player, phonograph
Meaning: machine in which rotating records cause a stylus to vibrate and the vibrations are amplified acoustically or electronically
Usage examples
Then the phonograph began to play.
"I'd like to hear the phonograph play."
Don't tell 'em I can sing, or they'd want me to make records for that awful phonograph.
At Heidelberg, my assistant, Mr. Wangemann, an accomplished German-American, showed the phonograph before the Association."
But before he could say more the phonograph turned and dashed up the road as fast as its four table-legs could carry it, and soon it had entirely disappeared from their view.
One of the most conspicuous features of the room is a phonograph equipment on which the latest and best productions by the greatest singers and musicians can always be heard, but which Edison himself is everlastingly experimenting with, under the incurable delusion that this domestic retreat is but an extension of his laboratory.