phonograph

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A record player.

   […]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.'.

2. 2
   noun

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

3. 3
   noun

   A device that captures sound waves onto an engraved archive; a lathe.

4. 4
   noun

   A device that records or plays sound from cylinder records.

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Simplified etymology

Phonograph appeared in the mid-19th century and originally meant a phonetic symbol. The source describes it as a reversed form of gramophone and traces its sound-related element to Greek phōnein, “to speak”; it also explains -gram as meaning “something written.”

From phono- + -graph.

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