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Definition: Record Player |
Record PlayerNoun1. Machine in which rotating records cause a stylus to vibrate and the vibrations are amplified acoustically or electronically. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Electrical Engineering | A mechanical device of a reproducing equipment consisting of a turntable with its driving system, a tone arm and a pick-up head. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A motor-driven turntable used with a phonograph pickup to obtain a-f signals from a phonograph record. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Instrument for reproducing recorded sound from gramophone disks. It consists basically of a pickup. . . a balanced tone arm, . . . an amplifier. . . a loudspeaker, a turntable. . . and a speed-cha nging device. . Source: European Union. (references) | |
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Synonym: Record PlayerSynonym: phonograph (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Record Player |
| English words defined with "record player": acoustic gramophone, auto-changer ♦ baseball card ♦ cartridge, changer ♦ gramophone ♦ jukebox ♦ nickelodeon ♦ pickup ♦ radio-gramophone, radio-phonograph, record changer ♦ stylus, surface noise. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "record player": Digital Audio Tape ♦ rumble in a record player unit. (references) |
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Screenplays | Oh, you should have seen it! There was a record player! And a yo-yo! (Toy Story 2; writing credit: John Lasseter; Peter Docter) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Magnamusic Inc., business at 152 W. 57th St., New York City. Record shop, detail of record player and listening booths.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Expression using "record player": rumble in a record player unit. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "record player"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | gramafon (gramophone, phonograph, turntable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فونوغراف (phonograph), صفيحة آلية, التسجيل, الطاسيت. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | грамофон (gramophone, phonograph). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | gramofon (gramophone, phonograph, record). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | pladespiller (record-player), grammofon (gramophone, record-player). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | platenspeler (record-player). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | levysoitin (gramophone, phonograph, record-player). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | tourne-disque (record-player), électrophone. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Plattenspieler (gramophone, phonograph, record-player). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πικάπ (gramophone, record-player). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | פטיפון (gramophone, phonograph, turntable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | lemezjátszó (gramophone, stereo, turntable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | giradischi (record-player). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | レコードの溝 (record groove, record holder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | レコードプレーヤー . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ecordray ayerplay toca disco, gira-discos (record-player). (various references) electrofon. (various references) проигрыватель (phonograph, record-player). (various references) gramofon (gramophone). (various references) tocadiscos (gramophone, phonograph, record-player, turntable). (various references) skivspelare (record-player). (various references) plakçalar (pick up, pickup), plâkçalar, pikap (cartridge, pick up, pickup, pickup truck, station wagon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-l-o-p-r-r-r-y" | |
-2 letters: copyreader. | |
-3 letters: prerecord. | |
-4 letters: coleader, copyread, declarer, deplorer, parceled, parleyed, parleyer, preclear, preorder, readerly, recoaled, recorder, redeploy, reloader, replaced, replacer, replayed, rerecord. | |
-5 letters: caloyer, capered, caperer, caroled, caroler, cleared, clearer, corrade, cradler, creedal, decayer, declare, decoyer, delayer, deplore, drapery, eardrop, layered, leopard, orderer, orderly, paroled, parolee, pearled, pearler, pedlary, pedlery, pedocal, percale, peroral, pleader, precode, prelacy, prerace, proceed, pyrrole, recarry, relaced, relayed, reorder, replace, replead, ycleped, yodeler. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 63 6F 72 64 50 6C 61 79 65 72 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01100011 01101111 01110010 01100100 00100000 01010000 01101100 01100001 01111001 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e c o r d   P l a y e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0063 006F 0072 0064 0050 006C 0061 0079 0065 0072 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5271698184702507867917184 |
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