megaphone
Americannoun
verb (used with or without object)
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Explanation
A megaphone is a cone-shaped amplifier you can use to make your voice louder. You can bring a megaphone to a football game, but leave it at home if you are headed to a dinner party. Megaphones are useful, portable devices for someone who's guiding a group of protesters, for a movie director who's working with a lot of actors on a large set, or for cheerleaders who want their voices to carry over the roar of a crowd of football fans. Thomas Edison invented the megaphone, and he probably named it too: it combines the Greek megas, "great," with phone, "voice."
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Since then, Spotify has bulked up Megaphone by acquiring and integrating analytics tools Podsights and Chartable and radio-to-podcast tool Whooshkaa.
From The Verge • May 31, 2022
While Braun says he is overall satisfied with Megaphone, which he has used since 2018, he also wasn’t entirely shocked that the outage occurred over such a dumb mistake.
From The Verge • May 31, 2022
To tackle the problem internally, Twitter engineers launched an internal initiative called Operation Megaphone, in which they bought hundreds of fake accounts and studied their behavior.
From Washington Post • May 13, 2022
Spotify, for example, does not host podcasts, though it owns hosting platforms like Anchor, home of Rogan's podcast, and Megaphone.
From Reuters • Feb. 22, 2022
There was the Megaphone, which brings far-away sounds near, so that cattle crunching grass six miles off could be heard distinctly at Menlo Park!
From The Boyhood of Great Inventors by Robertson, A. Fraser
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