record player

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Origin of record player

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First recorded in 1930–35

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How to use record player in a sentence

  • There was a portable record player in the foreground and a low table with snacks and drinks, and two other people were with him.

    Little Fuzzy | Henry Beam Piper
  • The recorded voice ceased; for a moment the record player hummed voicelessly.

    Little Fuzzy | Henry Beam Piper
  • Yes; so I learned, at the time they brought the record player, that she had gone to New Orleans.

    Warren Commission (10 of 26): Hearings Vol. X (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
  • And until the time that Mike came over and delivered the record player.

    Warren Commission (10 of 26): Hearings Vol. X (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
  • I think Mike was the one who brought the record player, and I don't remember the circumstances on that, but I believe it was he.

    Warren Commission (10 of 26): Hearings Vol. X (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy

British Dictionary definitions for record player

record player

noun
  1. a device for reproducing the sounds stored on a record, consisting of a turntable, usually electrically driven, that rotates the record at a fixed speed of 33, 45, or (esp formerly) 78 revolutions a minute. A stylus vibrates in accordance with undulations in the groove in the record: these vibrations are converted into electric currents, which, after amplification, are recreated in the form of sound by one or more loudspeakers: See also monophonic, quadraphonics, stereophonic

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