turntable

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A circular rotating platform.

2. 2

   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: […]
   • Rik Shaw of Deadly Dragon Soundsystem continues his weekly residency by turntabling the rudest Jamaican dance records ever pressed.
3. 3

   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.
   • He stopped, turned around and looked to the City, which he saw as its first buildings in the haze the subway el entered as a vanishing point. He looked into the other direction, hills beginning, turntabling a highway toward the country.
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   1. 4

      To manipulate sound using turntables

      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.

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