单词 | silence cabinet |
释义 | > as lemmassilence cabinet silence cabinet n. now historical (a) Australian, British, and Irish English a booth containing a telephone for public use for a fee, situated inside a public building or railway station; cf. silence box n.; (b) (at the BBC) a booth either inside or adjacent to a studio from which a producer supervises a broadcast. ΚΠ 1889 W. H. Preece & J. Maier Telephone xiv. 231 At most telephone exchanges a silence cabinet is provided in the public office, which subscribers are permitted to use for communication with their own offices, or with other subscribers. 1925 Programme Presentation (BBC Written Archives Centre: R35/728) 5 Each silence cabinet must be equipped with controls for fading in and out each microphone, with signal light controls, reading desk, signal light switching and telephone. 1929 B.B.C. Year-bk. 1930 309 In Savoy Hill there are nine studios, six of which are equipped with silence cabinets (these are small rooms adjacent to the studios from which the announcer can speak before switching over to the studio itself). 2005 B. Hennessy Emergence Broadcasting in Brit. ix. 371 The three microphones were controlled from a desk in the silence cabinet from which the producer could select the combination to be used at any time. 2019 Sunshine Coast (Queensland) Daily (Nexis) 9 Feb. 42 In 1931, the Coolum Beach branch approached the Department of Posts and Telegraphs for a telephone silence cabinet to be built at the post office. < as lemmas |
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