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单词 autophone
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autophonen.

Brit. /ˈɔːtə(ʊ)fəʊn/, U.S. /ˈɔdəˌfoʊn/, /ˈɔdoʊˌfoʊn/, /ˈɑdəˌfoʊn/, /ˈɑdoʊˌfoʊn/
Forms: 1800s– autophon (in sense 1), 1800s– autophone. Also with capital initial.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: auto- comb. form1, -phone comb. form.
Etymology: < auto- comb. form1 + -phone comb. form. In sense 3 after French autophone, adjective (1878 or earlier; 1880 in a catalogue of the Museum of Musical Instruments of the Royal Conservatory in Brussels, the source reviewed in quot. 1894); compare autophonic adj. 2.
1. Usually with capital initial. A type of small barrel organ producing music by means of perforated cards. Now historical.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > musical box > [noun] > barrel-organ
hand organ1721
street organ1769
barrel organ1772
music box1773
grinding-organ1801
panharmonicon1811
flute-organ1828
orchestrino1838
orchestrion1838
organ1841
piano organ1842
autophone1850
grind-organ1888
1850 Times 4 Oct. 7/3 An instrument of simple construction, but of very varied power, called the ‘Autophon’, has been painted by the inventor, Mr. C. Dawson, organ-builder, of the Strand.
1852 Rep. Juries 1851 Exhib. 332/2 A barrel-organ, called an Autophon.
a1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 192/1 Autophon, a barrel-organ, the tunes of which are produced by means of perforated sheets of mill-board.
1951 Tempo No. 19. 9 An exhibit that aroused considerable interest was Dawson's ‘Autophon’.
1997 Canad. Press Newswire (Nexis) 15 Jan. In the dining room he has Wurlitzers and table organs. There's also his oldest music machine, an Autophone..that is operated by pumping a type of bellows underneath.
2.
a. U.S. A portable telephone that may be carried in and used in a motor vehicle. rare. Now disused.To use the device it had to be plugged into a purpose-built socket fixed to a telegraph pole, with the vehicle stationary nearby.
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1911 Pop. Mech. Oct. 465/1 The automobilist will no longer dread a breakdown in an isolated part of the country... The instrument that will make such desirable consummation possible is called the ‘autophone’.
b. With capital initial. A telephone (with a dial) which connects to an automatic telephone exchange rather than an operator. Cf. automatic adj. 2d. Now disused.
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society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > telephone equipment > [noun] > telephone > types of
microtelephone1879
field telephone1880
telephone extension1881
pay telephone1886
home telephone1893
substation1897
extension1906
railophone1911
dial phone1917
payphone1919
dial telephone1921
autophone1922
mobile telephone1930
viewphone1932
videophone1944
mobile phone1945
car phone1946
video telephone1947
speaker-phone1955
picture telephone1956
princess phone1959
touchtone telephone1961
touch-tone1962
touchtone phone1963
picture phone1964
Trimphone1965
princess telephone1966
vision-telephone1966
visiophone1971
princess1973
warbler1973
landline1977
cardphone1978
feature phone1979
smartphone1980
mobile1982
cell phone1983
Vodafone1984
cellular1985
mobile device1989
brick1990
satphone1991
celly1992
burner phone1996
keitai1998
burner2002
1922 N.Y. Tribune 26 Mar. ii. 1/3 Next the Autophone... Now it is the telephone operator who is to be scrapped.
1928 Daily Tel. 6 Mar. 6/3 Autophone emergencies... Bishopsgate automatic telephone exchange..came into operation at midnight on Saturday with the transfer of 1,400 subscribers from the manual system.
3. Music. A percussion instrument that produces sound through the vibration of its constituent material, as a xylophone, gong, triangle, etc. Cf. membranophone n.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > [noun] > type by sound production
aerophone1927
autophone1937
chordophone1937
membranophone1937
idiophone1940
1894 Musical Times Feb. 117/1 The first class, in which the sound is due to the natural elasticity of the bodies themselves, he [sc. Mahillon] calls autophonic instruments (Instruments autophones).]
1937 F. W. Galpin Textbk. European Mus. Instruments 27 The various sound-producers were classed as Autophones or self-vibrators.
1937 F. W. Galpin Textbk. European Mus. Instruments 52 The representative instrument in the plucked type of Autophones is the Crembalum or Jew's-harp.
1954 Grove's Dict. Music IV. 489/2 Under Auto- or Idiophones..we find not only the xylophone..but also the marimba..and the marimba gongs.
1990 M. J. Kartomi Concepts & Classif. Mus. Instruments ii. xi. 163 At the first step the instruments were divided [by Mahillon] into four ‘classes’, governed by the nature of the vibrating, sound-producing body. The first class was called ‘autophones’ (self-sounders).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

Autophonev.

Brit. /ˈɔːtə(ʊ)fəʊn/, U.S. /ˈɔdəˌfoʊn/, /ˈɔdoʊˌfoʊn/, /ˈɑdəˌfoʊn/, /ˈɑdoʊˌfoʊn/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: autophone n.
Etymology: < autophone n.
rare.
intransitive. To use an Autophone (autophone n. 2b).
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1928 Daily Express 25 Apr. 11/3 How to ‘Autophone’.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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