record player

American  

noun

1. phonograph.

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record player British  

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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Etymology

Origin of record player

First recorded in 1930–35

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• phonograph vs. record player

Example Sentences

If background fuzz doesn’t sound appealing, the listed amenities also include a record player.

From Washington Post

Although he had grown up listening to pop standards, memorizing lyrics to Patti Page and Tony Bennett songs that his older sister played on her record player, Mr. Stein had wide-ranging taste.

From Washington Post

Like Cole’s water bottles, many of the objects on view — formerly a flashlight, a lamp, a wall clock, a record player, a fan, hair dryers — include plastics and other hard-to-recycle materials.

From New York Times

But he also bought dolls’ houses, sarcophagi, historic record players, an apartment-size model circus, letters, photographs and the mahogany desk on which President John F. Kennedy signed a partial ban on nuclear testing in 1963.

From New York Times

After the Second World War, Pye moved into manufacturing television sets and TV equipment, record players and had its own record label that signed acts including Lonnie Donegan, The Kinks and Status Quo.

From BBC