Dictaphone
4
7.4
- noun
- /ˈdɪktəˌfoʊn/
- Archaic
:
dictáfono
- The journalist always carried a dictaphone to capture interviews accurately.
- Dictaphone tape
- headset of a Dictaphone
Examples
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He held the Dictaphone up to the phone receiver and recorded the conversation between husband and wife.
Fiction book (1997) -
In the living room, she found the Dictaphone, but today's tape had been removed.
Fiction book (1999) -
Let me get my Dictaphone.
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I'll talk into a Dictaphone myself.
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"Did you find the tape in the dictaphone?"
Fiction book (1994) -
Would they take the tapes and not the Dictaphone?
Fiction book (1999) -
We recorded the participants' readings with a Dictaphone and measured the time with a stopwatch.
Academic text (2010) -
She'd spent nearly an hour searching her cubicle, asking her coworkers if they'd seen some Dictaphone tapes.
Fiction book (1999) -
She used her dictaphone to record the important meeting notes.
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He dictated his memoirs into a dictaphone for later transcription.
Synonyms
177
2.6
A device that saves sound or images for later playback
69
2.4
A machine that records and plays sound on tape
8
4.7
A machine that plays or records sound on cassette tapes
4
3.2
A device that records or plays sound on magnetic tape
1
3.4
A machine that makes and stores sound or video
How Portable
- Archaic
4
7.4
- Archaic
3
2.7
- Archaic
69
2.4
- Archaic
8
4.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Dictaphone comes from dictate meaning 'to say' and phone meaning 'voice', the same 'phone' you see in microphone. So a Dictaphone is literally a machine for recording and playing back someone's voice, which is why it was used to record dictation.