单词 | autophone |
释义 | autophonen. 1. Usually with capital initial. A type of small barrel organ producing music by means of perforated cards. Now historical. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. rare. intransitive. To use an Autophone (autophone n. 2b). ΚΠ 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). < n.1850v.1928 |
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