| 单词 | Dictaphone |
| 释义 | Dictaphone|ˈdɪktəfəʊn|
Also dictaphone.
[f. dictate v. + -phone.]
The proprietary name of a machine which records and subsequently reproduces for transcription words spoken into it. Also attrib.
1907Trade Marks Jrnl. 15 May 840 Dictaphone. Philosophical instruments, Scientific Instruments, and Apparatus for Useful Purposes. Instruments and Apparatus for Teaching. Columbia Phonograph Company General..New York. 1907Daily Chron. 3 July 3/5 The ‘dictaphone’, an adaptation of the phonograph. 1920Chambers's Jrnl. 264/2 A familiar object in many business and editorial offices is the dictaphone, an instrument which records on wax cylinders letters or articles spoken into it. 1920Glasgow Herald 22 May 5 Typing for half an hour an aggregate of 3991 words for dictaphone records. 1926‘J. J. Connington’ Death at Swaythling Court xvi, You know he's an expert on gramophones and dictaphones and all that kind of truck... He got a dictaphone record of a telephone message from Hubbard to his clerk. 1961Evening Standard 14 July 20/2 Dictaphone Typist urgently required. 1967Times Rev. Industry Mar. 41/1 One of Dictaphone's directors..doubts whether a ‘generic’ name has any specific advantage ‘for people may call it a Dictaphone, but they will not necessarily come to us’. |
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