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单词 gramophone
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gramophone

(græməfoʊn)
Word forms: plural gramophones
countable noun
A gramophone is an old-fashioned type of record player.
[mainly British]
...a wind-up gramophone with a big horn.
...gramophone records.
regional note: in AM, usually use phonograph

gramophone in British English

(ˈɡræməˌfəʊn)
noun
1. 
a.  Also called: acoustic gramophone
a device for reproducing the sounds stored on a record: now usually applied to the nearly obsolete type that uses a clockwork motor and acoustic horn
US and Canadian name: phonograph
b. 
(as modifier)
a gramophone record
2. 
the technique and practice of recording sound on disc
the gramophone made music more widely accessible
Derived forms
gramophonic (ˌɡræməˈfɒnɪk)
adjective
Word origin
C19: originally a trademark, perhaps based on an inversion of phonogram; see phono-, -gram

gramophone in American English

(ˈgræməˌfoʊn)
US
noun
Chiefly British
phonograph
Word origin
so named (1887) by E. Berliner, U.S. inventor, by arbitrary inversion of phonogram

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Examples of 'gramophone' in a sentence
gramophone

On a table beneath the open window was a gramophone playing a piece of music.
John Cornwell Seminary Boy (2006)
He was playing a piece of piano music on his gramophone and smoking a cigarette.
John Cornwell Seminary Boy (2006)
It's a bit like an old gramophone record.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
They invested their prized sum in a wind-up gramophone and began music appreciation lessons.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
A pile of gramophone records cracked loudly under his elbow and a piece of fireplace cut his leg.
Len Deighton Bomber
She would allow him to use her piano to play the music he had heard on his parents' gramophone records.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
I used some of the money to buy a wind-up gramophone.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Often they were accompanied by accounts of his experiences, such as taking tea while Rigoletto played on a gramophone and shells burst outside.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
PLEASE help me have a No 1 hit gramophone record next week.
The Sun (2010)
On the observation roof of F block a group of music lovers listened to a classical symphony on a wind-up gramophone.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
A wind-up gramophone wafted out Chopin.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
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