Dic·ta·phone

(dĭk′tə-fōn′)

A trademark for an apparatus that records and reproduces dictation for transcription.

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Dictaphone

(ˈdɪktəˌfəʊn)

(Electronics) trademark a tape recorder designed for recording dictation and later reproducing it for typing

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Dic•ta•phone

(ˈdɪk təˌfoʊn)
Trademark.

a brand name for a dictating machine.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

Dictaphone - a tape recorder that records and reproduces dictation

tape machine, tape recorder - a magnetic recorder using magnetic tape

Translations

Dictaphone

® [ˈdɪktəfəʊn] N → dictáfono ® m

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Dictaphone®

n → Diktaphon nt, → Diktafon nt

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Dictaphone

® [ˈdɪktəˌfəʊn] n → dittafono ®

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It is claimed Diamond then squared up to the journalist and seized his dictaphone, with a heated exchange of words following before the pair were separated.

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Diamond asked Peters to go outside, squared up to the journalist, seized his dictaphone and had a heated exchange before the pair were separated.

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Best known in Lebanon for her work with Dictaphone Group -- an urban research and site-specific performance collective that she co-founded with Petra Serhal and Abir Saksouk -- Khoury's prize-winning solo performances and installations are politically inflected (nonpartisan) works that make her audience active collaborators.

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So she bought a dictaphone and placed it in my bedroom at night, which I was fine with - after all, I had nothing to hide.

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"They really shared over many evenings I shared with each person and I went with a dictaphone like you guys and recorded everything and had put it together in the form of a manuscript and wrote the book, added Chopra.

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From well-known objects such as the Turbinia (maritime innovation) and the Locomotion (railway ingenuity), there was also more unusual and surprising ones like a dictaphone belonging to local author, Catherine Cookson, the world's first windscreen wiper and a friction match.

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The greatest ever jump jockey offered up probably the most chilling quote ever recorded on my dictaphone. McCoy (right), who rode his 4,000th winner this week, said: "It doesn't matter how good you are, there'll always be someone g y y who comes along and wins more.

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In fact, he's so happy, he decides to pop the question to Debbie, little suspecting that Brenda has just sat down to listen to Gennie's Dictaphone.

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Corriere worked as an Electronic Technician for Atwell and Dictaphone Corporations.

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