dictating machine

American  

[dik-tey-ting] / ˈdɪk teɪ tɪŋ /

noun

1. a machine for recording dictation, as on cassettes or disks, for subsequent transcription.

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Etymology

Origin of dictating machine

First recorded in 1935–40

Example Sentences

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dictating machine

Unfortunately the disks he tried to adapt for his fledgling computer, paper coated with magnetic oxide used in an early dictating machine, proved too floppy.

From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2016

For their ballad they invented a switch on old operatic letter scenes, had Baritone John Raitt sing into an office dictating machine and then do a duet with his own recorded voice.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hospitalized for six months, he had a dictating machine set up beside his bed and kept right on working.

From Time Magazine Archive

From a hospital, he kept up his column with the aid of a dictating machine, datelined it "Cell 308."

From Time Magazine Archive

The brain may also be likened to the cylinder or disk used in a dictating machine and in phonographs, and a thought likened to the needle making the original record.

From Increasing Human Efficiency in Business, a contribution to the psychology of business by Scott, Walter Dill