单词 | reproducer |
释义 | reproducern. 1. A person who or thing which reproduces. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > creating again > one who reforger1548 re-edifiera1552 rebuilder1636 reproducer1774 reconstructor1841 remaker1841 the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [noun] > action of repeating in a copy or making a copy > reproducer reproducer1774 facsimilist1862 replicator1964 1774 Gentlemen's Mag. Suppl. 607/2 Charles Townshend, officially the re-producer of this fatal scheme. 1841 W. E. Gladstone State Relations with Church (ed. 4) iv. §100 Not as a creator, or an inventor, or even a reproducer, of a system. 1876 Contemp. Rev. 27 968 A timid, dependent, incoherent reproducer, whose plagiarisms his old pupil amused himself by detecting. 1900 Atlantic Monthly Sept. 392 The political correspondent..as..a perfunctory reproducer of foreign newspapers. 1936 Times 4 July 15/7 Siwa, the destroyer (but by implication also the reproducer..), predominates over Brahmah. 2002 Isis 93 495/1 White women became implicated in these ‘discourses’ because their role as reproducers put them at the center of eugenicists' fear that miscegenation would pollute the superior race. 2. A device which reproduces transmitted or recorded sound; a gramophone, a tape player; spec. the part of a gramophone that responds to the recording medium; the pickup of a record deck. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > audibility > sound magnification or reproduction > [noun] > reproducer reproducer1883 society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > sound recording or reproducing equipment > [noun] > record-playing equipment > other parts sound-box1876 reproducer1883 scratch filter1929 spindle1940 groove-locating unit1941 reject button1947 1883 Sci. Amer. 4 Aug. 64/2 Priority of invention is awarded to Bell..for the acoustic telegraph, including sound producers as well as reproducers on armature plate. 1892 W. Gillett Phonograph 12 Instead of one stylus serving for the two purposes, there are now two; one, the recorder, having a very keen edge,..and the other, the reproducer, having a tiny knob highly polished. 1899 T. Eaton & Co. Catal. Spring–Summer 191/3 The price of the Universal Graphophone, with a long run clockwork motor recorder, reproducer, hearing, speaking tubes and horn, is $50. 1904 S. R. Bottone Talking Machines & Records 60 We must have some means of controlling or varying the pressure of the stylus of the reproducer on the record. 1927 Warren (Pa.) Morning Mirror 27 Sept. 7/8 (advt.) The ‘Ultra’ reproducer..and radio pick-up units to play records with radio. 1933 Pop. Sci. Monthly Mar. 36/2 What would happen if an artist were to draw arbitrary shapes, imprint them on sound film, and run it through a reproducer? 1961 G. A. Briggs A to Z in Audio 169 The console includes a tape reproducer with 7½″, 15″ and 30″ speeds. 1978 Gramophone Aug. 399/3 The Stanton 681EEE, which continues in production, is already a very fine reproducer. 2006 T. Holmes Routledge Guide Music Technol. 95/1 The first reproducer for both two-minute and four-minute records appeared in the 1909 Model K. 3. A machine for making copies of paper tape or punched cards. ΘΚΠ society > computing and information technology > hardware > secondary storage > [noun] > punch card or tape > processing device reproducer1885 sorter1917 interpreter1936 verifier1940 card reader1946 reader1946 tape reader1947 collator1949 tape reproducer1961 stacker1962 tabulator1970 1885 U.S. Patent 330,344 2/1 When it is desired to transmit in one direction only..the reproducer alone will be provided with a perforating mechanism. 1913 D. M. McNicol Amer. Telegraph Pract. xx. 415 The improvement in this method as compared with Wheatstone recorder reception, is that the received tape may be passed through a local ‘reproducer’. 1940 W. J. Eckert Punched Card Methods ii. 20 The High Speed Reproducer. This machine is used to transfer information from one card to another. 1964 F. L. Westwater Electronic Computers vi. 100 A machine called a reproducer..automatically reproduces the information in a pack of old cards into new ones. 2000 L. E. Kay Who wrote Bk. of Life? 114 Perhaps they could design a chemical analog to a punched-card reproducer. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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