sound head

American  

noun

Movies.

1. a mechanism through which film passes in a projector for conversion of the soundtrack into audio-frequency signals that can be amplified and reproduced.

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sound head British  

noun

1. the part of a film projector that reproduces the sound in a film

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Etymology

Origin of sound head

First recorded in 1930–35

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Example Sentences

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sound head

He had a sound head, and a heart equally sound.

From Thirty Years in the Itinerancy by Wesson Gage Miller

The professor was a man of great science and was blessed with an almighty sound head.

From The Blind Spot by Austin Hall

The virtue he loved was simple, sociable, gay, sprightly, and playful; to use one of his own expressions, ‘Ignorance and incuriousness are two charming pillows for a sound head.’

From An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by John Henry Newman

General Greene, who was well versed in military law, and was a man of sound head and kind heart, was president, and Colonel John Lawrence, judge advocate-general.

From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Washington Irving

I have sound fists and a sound head, and I shall always be able to earn the bread that I eat.

From Jean-Christophe, Volume I by Gilbert Cannan

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