turntablen.
/ˈtəːnteɪb(ə)l/ 1. On a railway: A revolving platform turning on a central pivot, laid with rails connecting with adjacent tracks, for turning railway vehicles; a turn-plate.
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society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > turntable
turn-plate1797
turning platform1825
turntable1835
turning-table1839
1835 Massachusetts Stat. 4 Apr. To unite any rail-road or rail-roads..by turn-tables or otherwise.
1838 N. Wood Pract. Treat. Railroads (ed. 3) 186 On each of these lines..circular turn~tables are placed, upon which the carriages are run.
1854 John Bull 2 Sept. 558/2 An engine having been accidentally put in motion while on the turn table, ran over a side wall, and rested on end in the street below.
2. A revolving platform, table, stand, or disk of various kinds: see quots.; spec. (a) a rotating disk on which microscope slides are held for tracing the circular cement cells in which specimens are placed for examination; (b) see quot. 1889; (c) a turning device allowing a photographic camera to rotate on the stand or tripod; (d) a rotating plate-glass show stand used in shop-windows ( Funk's Stand. Dict. 1895); (e) the rotating plate on which a gramophone record is placed to be played; the unit housing this plate.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > other specific types of equipment > [noun] > other tools and equipment
pollhache1324
poleaxe1356
muckrake1366
pestlea1382
botea1450
staff1459
press-board1558
reel1593
water crane1658
lathekin1659
tower1662
dressing hook1683
liner1683
hovel1686
flax-brake1688
nipper1688
horse1728
tap1797
feather-stick1824
bow1839
safety belt1840
economizer1841
throttle damper1849
cleat1854
leg brace1857
bark-peeler1862
pugging screw1862
nail driver1863
spool1864
turntable1865
ovate1872
tension bar1879
icebreaker1881
spreader1881
toucher1881
window pole1888
mushroom head1890
rat1894
slackline1896
auger1897
latch hook1900
thimble1901
horse1904
pipe jack1909
mulcher1910
hand plate1911
splashguard1917
cheese-cutter1927
airbrasive1945
impactor1945
fogger1946
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > magnification or magnifying instruments > [noun] > microscope > slides > rotating disc for holding
turntable1865
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > wall of building > [noun] > rotating box or disc in wall
turning-box1611
turn1670
turning-table1839
turntable1887
society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > gun carriage > [noun] > other parts of carriage
tail-pin1497
brack1622
head-plate1647
transom1688
prise-bolt1705
bracket1753
bracket-bolt1753
pintle1769
rider1779
trail-plate-eye1828
cleat1834
wheel-guard1860
spade1862
nave-hole1867
chassis1869
turntable1889
gun-crutch1898
trail-spade1904
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > camera > parts and accessories of camera > [noun] > turning device
turntable1892
1865 Morning Star 2 Sept. The burial board..determined on placing a stand, or what is called a ‘turn-table’, in the church, and also one in the chapel [for use at funerals].
1867 J. Hogg Microscope (ed. 6) i. iii. 254 The little box contains:—Shadbolts turn-table, brass table [etc.].
1887 T. A. Trollope What I Remember II. xv. 279 His food..is passed in to him by a little turntable made in the wall.
1889 J. J. Welch Text Bk. Naval Archit. v. 79 The four heavy guns are carried on revolving turntables in two fixed armoured redoubts or barbettes.
1892 Photogr. Ann. II. p. cxci A special form of Turntable is fixed to the Camera, to which the legs may be quickly attached... The centre of the Turntable is cut away.
1908 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 117. 195/2 The Type FH Harvard Disc Talking Machine... The turntable, of a special composition metal, is 10 inches in diameter.
1921 P. A. Scholes Learning to Listen 157 The motor should be wound up fully for each record played, in order that the turntable can rotate at its normal and even speed.
1960 Pract. Wireless 36 421/2 Wedge the turntable so that it does not move.
1962 Times 5 July 15/7 The disc had been standing on the turntable for a few minutes before playing.
1979 L. Kallen Introd. C. B. Greenfield xiii. 166 An old armoire..held his recordings and the turntable.
3. attrib., as turn-table ladder, turn-table stack.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > extinguishing fire > [noun] > fire-fighting > a substance or apparatus for extinguishing > ladders
scaling ladder1868
pompier ladder1878
turn-table ladder1893
1893 Nation (N.Y.) 13 July 28/3 At the Columbian Fair there is a turn-table stack of official publications.
1912 Times 19 Dec. 12/6 A horsed escape, a fire engine, a turn~table ladder, and ten men turned out from the Theobald's-road fire station.
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Music. In plural (usually with the). A set of two or more record turntables connected through mixing equipment, used as the principal apparatus for performing as a DJ. Also: a similar apparatus for use with another format of recorded music. Cf. turntablist n.
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1975 Punch 27 Aug. 319/1 He sits at the turntables, dressed in a white open neck shirt and beams at the audience.
1988 Shetland Times 16 Dec. 33/2 At the turntables on Monday night will be local jocks The Smooth Operators who will be working hard to guarantee everyone a great night out.
1995 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 24 Nov. (Metro section) 5 A deejay crew featuring MC Yellow Peril on CD turntables and Lex Luthor on samples.
1998 Spin Nov. 46/3 Zodiac sign? Gemini (two faces—just like my turntables).
2008 ‘Grandmaster Flash’ & D. Ritz Adven. Grandmaster Flash 109 Cowboy rocked the crowd, Creole rocked the flow,..and I rocked the turntables harder than ever.
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