Crossword-Solution: PHONOGRAPH
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Phonograph | n. | A character or symbol used to represent a sound, esp. one used in phonography. |
| Phonograph | n. | An instrument for the mechanical registration and reproduction of audible sounds, as articulate speech, etc. It consists of a rotating cylinder or disk covered with some material easily indented, as tinfoil, wax, paraffin, etc., above which is a thin plate carrying a stylus. As the plate vibrates under the influence of a sound, the stylus makes minute indentations or undulations in the soft material, and these, when the cylinder or disk is again turned, set the plate in vibration, and reproduce the sound. |
We have 12 clues for the answer “PHONOGRAPH”
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| CD player's predecessor | 1 answer |
| Edison's brainchild | 1 answer |
| Edison's child | 1 answer |
| Object in the classic painting "His Master's Voice" | 1 answer |
| Once-popular record player | 1 answer |
| SOUND recording-reproducing instrument | 1 answer |
| Thomas Edison's 1877 good idea | 1 answer |
| sound recorder | 1 answer |
| Singles player | 3 answers |
| gramophone | 3 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CEAZME
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PHONOGRAPH (5)
Before he reached the front door, the voice outside ceased its dreadful plaint with the abrupt anti-climax of a phonograph stopped in the middle of a record.
When they arrived opposite Macpherson's office, the Genius started the phonograph working, pointed the figure straight at Macpherson's door, and set it going.
Let us be able to tell him when they come.” He accordingly set the phonograph at a slow pace, and I began to typewrite from the beginning of the seventh cylinder.
One memorable night she went, with half a dozen others from the Inn, to the tiny one-room cabin of Oscar, the handy man about the Inn, and there she listened to one of Oscar's far-famed phonograph concerts.
Outside there are rows of handsome women with decollete gowns and shining black hair and colored silk scarfs selling fruit and down the one street which faces the bay are a double row of palms and the store where two American boys have a phonograph.
Quotes with PHONOGRAPH (3)
You're a hopeless romantic," said Faber. "It would be funny if it were not serious. It's not books you need, it's some of the things that once were in books. The same things could be in the 'parlor families' today. The same infinite detail and awareness could be projected through the radios, and televisors, but are not. No, no it's not books at all you're looking for! Take it where you can find it, in old phonograph records, old motion pictures, and in old friends; look for i…
Temples and churches have become social centers. They have lost their original purpose because the minds of the people are more attracted to worldly things than to prayer. The lips repeat the prayer mechanically like a phonograph record, but the mind wanders to other places. (23-24)
That's how you get deathless, volchitsa. Walk the same tale over and over, until you wear a groove in the world, until even if you vanished, the tale would keep turning, keep playing, like a phonograph, and you'd have to get up again, even with a bullet through your eye, to play your part and say your lines.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1973–2024).