单词 | discography |
释义 | discographyn. 1. a. A catalogue of musical recordings; esp. a list of the recordings or commercial releases of a particular composer or artist. Also: such recordings or releases considered as a body of work. ΚΠ 1930 Phonogr. Monthly Aug. 372 (heading) A Smetana Discography... There have been requests for a revised list of the Smetana recordings and Dr. Vojan has kindly compiled the following. 1936 R. D. Darrell Gramophone Shop Encycl. Recorded Music p. vii A presentation of each composer's discography work by work, with complete recorded versions of each composition in its original form. 1946 Jazz Mag. 3 i. 3/2 Eric S. Tonks' new complete Jazz discography is to be released in sections. 1983 E. Mordden Broadway Babies (1988) 219 Ethel Merman was a great recording artist, yet her discography is small. 1992 B. Crow From Birdland to Broadway xix. 91 Discographies show that last Roost date as having taken place on December 5, 1952. 2009 Wire Apr. 73/4 Yoshimura doubles the size of his discography with a pair of releases launching a new French imprint. b. The study or compilation of discographies (sense 1a). ΚΠ 1946 R. Venables in A. McCarthy PL Yearbk. Jazz 140 Those to whom discography appears a needlessly involved science. 1952 Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Aug. 534/2 The little world of discography and the discophil has been expanding internationally. 1990 Comments on Etymol. 19 vii. 11 Mr. Blacker writes regularly for Record Research, treating a wide variety of topics in discography. 2. Medicine. Radiological examination of an intervertebral disc by means of injection of a contrast medium; an instance of this. ΚΠ 1951 K. Lindblom in Acta Orthopedica Scandinavica 20 315 (title) Technique and results of diagnostic disc puncture and injection (discography) in the lumbar region. 1994 Amer. Pain Soc. Jrnl. 3 163/1 Diskography, particularly if combined with computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging scanning, is extremely sensitive in detecting mechanical disruption of the disk. 2004 Independent (Nexis) 17 May 12 Some doctors believe that if patients feel pain during discographies, they will soon develop back problems. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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