turntable

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A circular rotating platform.

   “[T]he Museum has installed turntables to give life to other material. Thus one sees a cross-section of the human skull revolving slowly on its pedestal and a much enlarged model of the ear on another, so that the spectator can examine every detail without walking around the display.”

2. isim The circular rotating platform of a record player or a disk jockey's console on which the record rests during play; (by extension), a record player.

   “I am also impressed with the good sound quality of the record. It is suitable for radio play, perhaps theater and film scores, as well as for the home turntable.”

3. isim A rotating platform placed in a circular pit, used for turning locomotives, cars, or trucks.

   “Of locomotive interest was "an engine house for spare engines which was about 60 ft. × 51 ft.; on the outside of this was an immense turntable sufficient to turn the engine and tender at once."”

4. isim A circular platform allowing a board game to be rotated to face each player.
5. fiil To play (a record) using a turntable.

   “Traditional carols we all know. Holiday Baroque, Renaissance and medieval music is not, and therefore makes a distinctive gift for the discriminating recordphile and is certain to be turntabled other times of the year, too: […]”

6. fiil To rotate or turn around using, or as if using, a turntable.

   “Herein we see a plan wisely borrowed from America, in whose great cities the bulk of the merchandise is not carted along the streets, but turntabled into and out of the warehouse basements from an underground railway.”

7. fiil To manipulate sound using turntables; to perform turntablism; to scratch

   “We particularly like hovering next to DJ Sid Wilson and seeing how he spends the large chunks of time where he's not turntabling.”