Word Meanings - PHONOGRAPHER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One versed or skilled in phonography. 2. One who uses, or is skilled in the use of, the phonograph. See Phonograph, 2.

Related words: (words related to PHONOGRAPHER)

• SKILLFUL
  1. Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning. "Of skillful judgment." Chaucer. 2. Possessed of, or displaying, skill; knowing and ready; expert; well-versed; able in management; as, a skillful mechanic; -- often followed by at, in, or of; as,
• PHONOGRAPHIST
  Phonographer.
• VERSET
  A verse. Milton.
• VERSEMAN
  See PRIOR
• VERSABLENESS
  Versability.
• VERS DE SOCIETE
  See SOCIETY
• PHONOGRAPHICALLY
  In a phonographic manner; by means of phonograph.
• SKILLED
  Having familiar knowledge united with readiness and dexterity in its application; familiarly acquainted with; expert; skillful; -- often followed by in; as, a person skilled in drawing or geometry.
• VERST
  A Russian measure of length containing 3,500 English feet.
• SKILLIGALEE
  A kind of thin, weak broth or oatmeal porridge, served out to prisoners and paupers in England; also, a drink made of oatmeal, sugar, and water, sometimes used in the English navy or army.
• VERSAL
  Universal. Shak.
• VERSUTE
  Crafty; wily; cunning; artful.
• VERSOR
  The turning factor of a quaternion. Note: The change of one vector into another is considered in quaternions as made up of two operations; 1st, the rotation of the first vector so that it shall be parallel to the second; 2d, the change of length
• VERSANT
  Familiar; conversant. Men not versant with courts of justice. Sydney Smith.
• VERSATILITY
  The quality or state of being versatile; versatileness.
• VERSABLE
  Capable of being turned.
• PHONOGRAPH
  An instrument for the mechanical registration and reproduction of audible sounds, as articulate speech, etc. It consists of a rotating cylinder or disk covered with some material easily indented, as tinfoil, wax, paraffin, etc., above which is a
• PHONOGRAPHER
  1. One versed or skilled in phonography. 2. One who uses, or is skilled in the use of, the phonograph. See Phonograph, 2.
• VERSIONIST
  One who makes or favors a version; a translator.
• VERSEMONGER
  A writer of verses; especially, a writer of commonplace poetry; a poetaster; a rhymer; -- used humorously or in contempt.
• CONTROVERSER
  A disputant.
• DIVERSIFORM
  Of a different form; of varied forms.
• REVERSED
  Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. Reversed positive or negative , a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney. (more info) 1. Turned side for side,
• UNIVERSITY
  universitas all together, the whole, the universe, a number of persons associated into one body, a society, corporation, fr. 1. The universe; the whole. Dr. H. More. 2. An association, society, guild, or corporation, esp. one capable of having
• AVERSENESS
  The quality of being averse; opposition of mind; unwillingness.
• OVERSHOT
  From Overshoot, v. t. Overshot wheel, a vertical water wheel, the circumference of which is covered with cavities or buckets, and which is turned by water which shoots over the top of it, filling the buckets on the farther side and acting chiefly
• ESTOVERS
  Necessaries or supples; an allowance to a person out of an estate or other thing for support; as of wood to a tenant for life, etc., of sustenance to a man confined for felony of his estate, or alimony to a woman divorced out of her husband's
• REVERSION
  The returning of an esttate to the grantor or his heirs, by operation of law, after the grant has terminated; hence, the residue of an estate left in the proprietor or owner thereof, to take effect in possession, by operation of law, after
• DIVERS
  directions, different, p. p. of divertere. See Divert, and cf. 1. Different in kind or species; diverse. Every sect of them hath a divers posture. Bacon. Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds. Deut. xxii. 9. 2. Several; sundry; various;
• CONTROVERSAL
  1. Turning or looking opposite ways. The temple of Janus, with his two controversal faces. Milton. 2. Controversal. Boyle.
• TERGIVERSATOR
  One who tergiversates; one who suffles, or practices evasion.
• RENVERSEMENT
  A reversing.
• CONVERSIVE
  1. Capable of being converted or changed. 2. Ready to converse; social. Feltham.
• AVERSATION
  A turning from with dislike; aversion. Some men have a natural aversation to some vices or virtues, and a natural affection to others. Jer. Taylor.
• OVERSHOOT
  1. To shoot over or beyond. "Not to overshoot his game." South. 2. To pass swiftly over; to fly beyond. Hartle. 3. To exceed; as, to overshoot the truth. Cowper. To overshoot one's self, to venture too far; to assert too much.