record player
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3.0
- noun
- /ˈrɛkərd ˈpleɪər/
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tocadiscos
- Everyone danced when I played my favorite album on the record player.
I just got for the first time a record player.
- I just got for the first time a record player.
- When I was four and five years old, my grandpa in Puerto Rico would turn on the record player and I would dance for him.
- They brought him a gold lighter and record player and hotels and all that, you know what I mean?
- I WAS thinking like, you know, where the records are and the record player is like where that couch is.
Examples
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I had Black Flag, my war side too, on my record player for, you know, maybe even a year where that's just what I listen to.
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Mrs. Trujillo had conjured a record player from somewhere and had put on some music.
Fiction book (1992) -
Let us at least buy the record player.
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You see that old record player over there?
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I love this record player.
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Do you want me to put that on the record player?
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You have a record player?
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Someone had put the record player on in the living room.
Fiction book (1991) -
Chamber music is playing on the record player, a sad, slow melody perfect for a warm summer's night.
Fiction book (2001) -
Becky started with a little tap dance, accompanied by her portable record player, which she'd set up outside.
Fiction book (1994)
Synonyms
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1.6
A device or program that lets you watch video and hear audio files
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3.9
A flat round platform that spins records to play music
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8.8
A machine that plays music from old records
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9.2
An old machine that plays music from records using a needle
How Automatic
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'record' (a vinyl disc) + 'player' (a device that plays media) yields 'a device that plays records.' This regular noun+noun compounding pattern is common cross-linguistically and follows straightforward English composition, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Record player comes from the simple idea of a machine that 'plays' flat discs called records. A small needle runs in the disc's grooves and makes the sound, so the name literally means a player for records, which is why we use it for a device that plays vinyl music.