different between graphophone vs phonograph

English

Etymology

graph +? -o- +? -phone

Noun

graphophone (plural graphophones)

1. An improvement on the phonograph, using a floating stylus to cut grooves into a wax-coated cardboard cylinder.
   • 1930, William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying, Library of America, 1985, p.177:

     And then I see that the grip she was carrying was one of them little graphophones.

2. An optical device for showing (or photographing) an image when projected upon the atmosphere as a screen.

English

Etymology

From phono- +? -graph.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?f??n??????f/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?fo?n????æf/

Noun

phonograph (plural phonographs)

1. A device that captures sound waves onto an engraved archive; a lathe.
2. (Britain, historical) A device that records or plays sound from cylinder records.
3. (Canada, US, historical) A record player.
4. (dated) A character or symbol used to represent a sound, especially one used in phonography.

Synonyms

• (cylinder player): talking phonograph
• (turntable): gramophone (British), record player

Derived terms

• phonograph record

Translations

Verb

phonograph (third-person singular simple present phonographs, present participle phonographing, simple past and past participle phonographed)

1. (transitive, dated) To record for playback by phonograph.
2. (transitive, dated) To transcribe into phonographic symbols.

Further reading

• phonograph on Wikipedia.Wikipedia