phonograph

See also: Phonograph

English

Etymology

From phono- +‎ -graph.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfəʊnəˌɡɹɑːf/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfoʊnəˌɡɹæf/

Noun

phonograph (plural phonographs)

A device that captures sound waves onto an engraved archive; a lathe.
(Britain, historical) A device that records or plays sound from cylinder records.
(Canada, US, historical) A record player.
- 1937, John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men, Covici Friede:
  […] I've knew people that if they got a rag rug on the floor and a kewpie doll lamp on the phonograph they think they're runnin' a parlor house.'
(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

Bulgarian: фонограф m (fonograf)
Catalan: fonògraf m
Czech: fonograf m
Finnish: fonografi (fi)
German: Phonograph (de) m
Greek: φωνογράφος (el) m (fonográfos)
Italian: fonografo (it) m
Macedonian: фо́нограф (fónograf)
Polish: fonograf (pl) m, adapter (pl) m
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)

(transitive, dated) To record for playback by phonograph.
(transitive, dated) To transcribe into phonographic symbols.