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playback|ˈpleɪbæk|
Also play-back.
[f. vbl. phr. to play back: play v. 28 b.]
1. a. The reproduction of a recording, esp. soon after it has been made. Also fig. and attrib.
1929Photoplay Apr. 110/2 Play-back,..the immediate playing of the sound record after the taking of a scene in order that actors and directors may hear how it all sounds... The play-back is only possible from disc recording,..as in film recording the film must be developed before the sound can be heard. 1931N. H. Slaughter in L. Cowan Recording Sound for Motion Pictures iv. 61 Disc recording permits play-backs, often a boon to the director and cast. 1934B.B.C. Year-Bk. 419 For immediate play-backs the Blattner system requires a little time to rewind the tape before running off again. 1940N.Y. Times 19 May ix. 10/2 As future generations listen to play-backs of the uses to which radio was put for propaganda purposes..they, too, may be amazed. 1941B. Schulberg What makes Sammy Run? xi. 282 He felt he had to justify himself. He insisted upon giving me a play⁓back of that historic interview. 1949Sun (Baltimore) 5 Feb. 7 A courtroom playback of the broadcasts..brought out that Nazi propaganda was inserted between the GI's messages. 1949Electronic Engin. XXI. 149/3 The recording and play-back heads are so arranged that two tracks of recording can be stored on the standard tape. 1957C. MacInnes City of Spades ii. v. 140 On and on she went, like a playback from a tape recorder. 1957W. H. Whyte Organization Man 133 A young man's idle dream? It is a playback only mildly exaggerated of a vision of the future. 1959News Chron. 25 Aug. 3/5 Visitors to the Radio Show..will be able to see how TV shows are recorded ready for immediate playback. 1970N. Armstrong et al. First on Moon ix. 203 We've been looking at your systems data on playback and everything is looking good. 1976Gramophone Oct. 532 (Advt.), Pickering's exclusive new design development also makes it superior to other cartridges in the playback of stereo records. 1978G. McDonald Fletch's Fortune x. 65 The playback volume was too high.
b. Cinemat. A technique of recording the voice of a singer for the soundtrack of a film as a substitute for that of an actor or actress when songs are called for. playback singer, a singer whose voice is so used; also ellipt.
1952R. Spottiswoode Film & its Techniques 351 The technique of prescoring and playback with singer and orchestra. 1962Times 26 Jan. (Survey of India) p. xiii/2 The well-loved singers of prewar days were displaced by a strange new tribe known as ‘play-backs’. 1963Barnouw & Krishnaswamy Indian Film 164 A Cine Writers Association and a Playback Singers Association had been launched but had ceased activity because of lack of support. 1966R. P. Jhabvala Star & Two Girls in Experience of India (1971) 74 A playback singer rendered a love-song with..feeling. 1971Sunday Nation (Nairobi) 11 Apr. 31/4 The best male playback singer trophy.
2. An apparatus for playing recordings.
1930Pitkin & Marston Art of Sound Pictures 271 Play-back, a device which repeats the voices, recorded on a wax record. 1936E. S. Besinger tr. London's Film Music iv. 114 The American ‘play back’ invention has the advantage of less danger, and accuracy more easily attained. 1945L. A. G. Strong Othello's Occupation 44 It's a recording unit, with a play-back and ordinary controls for loud-speaker. 1960Aeroplane 15 July 51 (Advt.), Permanent radar records with the AEI radar recorder and playback. |