| 单词 | speaking battery |
| 释义 | > as lemmasspeaking battery a. In combinations denoting devices or apparatus for producing or conveying articulate sounds, as speaking-apparatus, speaking battery, speaking board, speaking-machine, speaking-pipe, speaking telephone, †speaking trump, etc.; See also speaking-trumpet n., speaking-tube n. ΚΠ a1711 T. Ken Hymns for Festivals in Wks. (1721) I. 315 Up then I saw an Angel take His Speaking-Trump. 1795 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 85 401 By means of the speaking-pipe the workman may be directed to begin, to stop, to go fast, or slow. 1832 D. Brewster Lett. Nat. Magic vii. 159 It has been supposed..that in the ancient speaking machines the deception is effected by means of ventriloquism. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. vi. i. 301 Not a unit of whom but has..his own speaking-apparatus. 1842 Penny Cycl. XXIV. 154/1 Speaking-pipes, or tubes to convey the voice from one place to another. 1879 G. B. Prescott Speaking Telephone (new ed.) 44 During the past year the articulating or Speaking Telephone has attracted very general interest. < as lemmas |
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