Definition of Dictaphone in English:
Dictaphone
noun ˈdɪktəfəʊnˈdɪktəˌfoʊn
trademark A small cassette recorder used to record speech for transcription at a later time.
Example sentencesExamples
- He lives at home, and spends his free time ‘singing into my Dictaphone for hours on end’ documenting ‘every last detail of my life, in scrapbooks as well’.
- I had to turn my Dictaphone off when he came into the bar, but if my memory serves me right he'd just done 14 years for some kind of seriously painful crime.
- With each new innovation - the telephone, the Dictaphone, the tape recorder - technology enthusiasts have declared the end of penmanship.
- Isabelle had lunch with Mark to persuade him against writing the book but was angered when she discovered he had recorded their conversation and threw his Dictaphone into a fish tank.
- Well, by the age of 13, Craig David was already scribbling down lyrics and recording melodies on his Dictaphone.
Origin
Early 20th century: from dictate or dictation + -phone.
Definition of Dictaphone in US English:
Dictaphone
(also dictaphone)
nounˈdiktəˌfōnˈdɪktəˌfoʊn
trademark A small cassette recorder used to record speech for transcription at a later time.
Example sentencesExamples
- Isabelle had lunch with Mark to persuade him against writing the book but was angered when she discovered he had recorded their conversation and threw his Dictaphone into a fish tank.
- I had to turn my Dictaphone off when he came into the bar, but if my memory serves me right he'd just done 14 years for some kind of seriously painful crime.
- Well, by the age of 13, Craig David was already scribbling down lyrics and recording melodies on his Dictaphone.
- He lives at home, and spends his free time ‘singing into my Dictaphone for hours on end’ documenting ‘every last detail of my life, in scrapbooks as well’.
- With each new innovation - the telephone, the Dictaphone, the tape recorder - technology enthusiasts have declared the end of penmanship.
Origin
Early 20th century: from dictate or dictation + -phone.