Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A machine which imitates or reproduces the human voice, as the phonograph.
Etymologies
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Examples
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He believes firmly that a tiny dwarf resides in the box of my talking-machine and that it is the tiny dwarf who does the singing and the talking.
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And when it comes to acting as a solvent of inhibitions and a loosener of reflexes, one drink, combined with a lot of hand-made music, is far more effective than ten drinks while you listen to a talking-machine or a radio. . .
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A piano stood in one corner, a talking-machine in another.
The Secret Wireless or, The Spy Hunt of the Camp Brady Patrol
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I own an automobile and a talking-machine, and I sleep in a brass bed when I'm at home.
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"Sing some records for a talking-machine company, Hicks!"
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Her words were in themselves ordinary and distinct, yet what she said was entirely incomprehensible, a nightmare of speech, as though some talking-machine had gone wrong and was pouring out a miscellaneous stock of verbs, nouns, adjectives and the rest without meaning or cohesion.
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The talking-machine was also a surprise for Allan.
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Diagonal from it, the horn of a talking-machine, in shape a large, a violent, a tin morning-glory, was directed full against the company.
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Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities.
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Mr. Meeker lubricated the talking-machine till its disk turned without a trace of the mechanism.
The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
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