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单词 sound box
释义

sound box

noun

1
: a hollow chamber in a musical instrument for increasing its sonority
2
: a device in an early phonograph for producing sound from a record by using the vibration of a needle to move a diaphragm

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Modern readers are more intelligent, but just for the stragglers, a zither is a flat, stringed instrument, like a guitar with a shallower sound box and no neck. David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Aug. 2022 Come Tuesday night, United Supermarkets Arena will be an ear-splitting sound box filled with vengeance-seeking Red Raiders fans. Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 31 Jan. 2022 In rhapsodic words attributed to the 13th-century Persian poet and Sufi mystic Rumi on the metaphysical benefits of self-denial, If the sound box is stuffed full of anything, no music. Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 19 Nov. 2020 The sound box of the instrument was incrusted with carnelian, lapis lazuli, and mother-of-pearl. National Geographic, 22 May 2019 It was made of maple, with a hollow sound box and tuning pegs made of ash. Roff Smith, National Geographic, 8 May 2019 The mbira consists of a set of steel tines suspended over a sound box. Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 17 Sep. 2018 See More

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1875, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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