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单词 jukebox
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Definition of jukebox in English:

jukebox

nounˈdʒuːkbɒksˈdʒukˌbɑks
  • 1A machine that automatically plays a selected musical recording when a coin is inserted.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The jukebox has fallen out of favour in recent years, due to the rise in popularity of the personal stereo amongst pub-goers.
    • But I'm concerned that live music is giving way to jukeboxes.
    • Pubs usually stage karaoke evenings or have jukeboxes churning out the hits.
    • Councilmen visited drugstores and restaurants in the city, demanding that proprietors remove all rock records from their jukeboxes.
    • I hung up and went to check out the selection on the jukebox.
    • The jukeboxes in the bars were ringing with recordings made in Chicago and New York, rich with the promises of new opportunities.
    • But it's worth considering the cost: I don't have to buy or rent the jukebox, and it's just twenty-five cents per song.
    • Someone throws a few coins into the jukebox and we are bombarded by Pink's ‘Lets get the party started’.
    • Blue walks over to his usual table, but stops at the jukebox first and selects a song.
    • One of their friends repaired jukeboxes for a living.
    • I peered into the jukebox's window, squinting and spinning my head with the record in an attempt to read the label.
    • It's a compilation from the start of her career when she recorded with many bands and most of her records ended up in jukeboxes.
    • The lack of a jukebox, dancefloor or fruit machines is in keeping with the York Brewery theme of pubs for drinking, eating and talking.
    • This is one track you're not likely to find on too many jukeboxes in red states.
    • I glanced over my shoulder to where Ashley was singing along by the jukebox.
    • He put a nickel in the jukebox and tossed back a few cold ones.
    • As they watched, one of the players shambled over to the jukebox and fed a handful of coins into it.
    • In Harlem, angry fans removed his records from jukeboxes and trampled them in the street.
    • If you scooted them all a few inches or so this way, you could fit both a pinball machine and a jukebox along that wall.
    • He wants pool tables, a jukebox, internet access, a proper bar and any other ideas the children come up with.
    1. 1.1Computing A device that stores several computer disks in such a way that data can be read from any of them.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • You can even have a DVD-RAM jukebox in practically any size that meets your needs.
      • The other traditional data storage, nearline archiving, involves moving the data to a slower media such as robotic tape and laser or magnetic optical jukeboxes.
      • While DVD-RAM for proprietary storage jukeboxes may be a viable prospect, the technology is losing ground in the optical standards race.
      • In order to increase disk capacity in a jukebox, the physical size of the unit must be increased, which increases the cost of the unit.
      • DVD jukeboxes with 4.7GB capacity per disc may be a more suitable choice in situations where rapid data access is concerned.

Origin

1930s: from juke + box.

  • In the USA a juke was a nightclub or bar that provided food, drinks, and music for dancing. The word was based on a term from the Creole language of the Gullah, an African-American people living on the coast of South Carolina and nearby islands. In their language juke meant ‘disorderly’.

 
 

Definition of jukebox in US English:

jukebox

nounˈjo͞okˌbäksˈdʒukˌbɑks
  • 1A machine that automatically plays a selected musical recording when a coin is inserted.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Pubs usually stage karaoke evenings or have jukeboxes churning out the hits.
    • The jukebox has fallen out of favour in recent years, due to the rise in popularity of the personal stereo amongst pub-goers.
    • In Harlem, angry fans removed his records from jukeboxes and trampled them in the street.
    • I glanced over my shoulder to where Ashley was singing along by the jukebox.
    • I hung up and went to check out the selection on the jukebox.
    • If you scooted them all a few inches or so this way, you could fit both a pinball machine and a jukebox along that wall.
    • Blue walks over to his usual table, but stops at the jukebox first and selects a song.
    • This is one track you're not likely to find on too many jukeboxes in red states.
    • But I'm concerned that live music is giving way to jukeboxes.
    • Councilmen visited drugstores and restaurants in the city, demanding that proprietors remove all rock records from their jukeboxes.
    • Someone throws a few coins into the jukebox and we are bombarded by Pink's ‘Lets get the party started’.
    • As they watched, one of the players shambled over to the jukebox and fed a handful of coins into it.
    • I peered into the jukebox's window, squinting and spinning my head with the record in an attempt to read the label.
    • The lack of a jukebox, dancefloor or fruit machines is in keeping with the York Brewery theme of pubs for drinking, eating and talking.
    • He put a nickel in the jukebox and tossed back a few cold ones.
    • One of their friends repaired jukeboxes for a living.
    • But it's worth considering the cost: I don't have to buy or rent the jukebox, and it's just twenty-five cents per song.
    • It's a compilation from the start of her career when she recorded with many bands and most of her records ended up in jukeboxes.
    • The jukeboxes in the bars were ringing with recordings made in Chicago and New York, rich with the promises of new opportunities.
    • He wants pool tables, a jukebox, internet access, a proper bar and any other ideas the children come up with.
    1. 1.1Computing A device that stores several computer disks in such a way that data can be read from any of them.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • You can even have a DVD-RAM jukebox in practically any size that meets your needs.
      • While DVD-RAM for proprietary storage jukeboxes may be a viable prospect, the technology is losing ground in the optical standards race.
      • The other traditional data storage, nearline archiving, involves moving the data to a slower media such as robotic tape and laser or magnetic optical jukeboxes.
      • In order to increase disk capacity in a jukebox, the physical size of the unit must be increased, which increases the cost of the unit.
      • DVD jukeboxes with 4.7GB capacity per disc may be a more suitable choice in situations where rapid data access is concerned.

Origin

1930s: from juke + box.

 
 
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