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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A tape recorder (device using magnetic tape as a storage medium).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated
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noun
An electromagnetic microphone.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated
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History
From magneto- + -phone. The sense “tape recorder” is probably a semantic loan from German Magnetophon (modern spelling Magnetofon), which was initially a brand name).
