单词 | megaphone |
释义 | megaphone (once / 8141 pages) n A megaphone is a cone-shaped amplifier you can use to make your voice louder. You can bring a megaphone to a football game, but leave it at home if you are headed to a dinner party. Megaphones are useful, portable devices for someone who's guiding a group of protesters, for a movie director who's working with a lot of actors on a large set, or for cheerleaders who want their voices to carry over the roar of a crowd of football fans. Thomas Edison invented the megaphone, and he probably named it too: it combines the Greek megas, "great," with phone, "voice." WORD FAMILYmegaphone: megaphones USAGE EXAMPLESThe insinuation is that the reform is designed to turn the BBG into a Trump propaganda megaphone. Washington Times(Dec 19, 2016) According to media reports, officers are using a megaphone to speak with the suspect. Seattle Times(Dec 13, 2016) The state media rapidly became the government’s megaphone. The Guardian(Dec 05, 2016) n a cone-shaped acoustic device held to the mouth to intensify and direct the human voice Hyper acoustic device a device for amplifying or transmitting sound |
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