seventy-eight

Thân thiện

A vintage record player spins a seventy-eight on its turntable.

Definition

1. Noun:

   • A shellac-based phonograph record that played at 78 revolutions per minute: A specific type of early, brittle audio recording format.
   • The cardinal number that is the sum of seventy and eight: The natural number following seventy-seven and preceding seventy-nine; 78.

2. Adjective:

   • Being eight more than seventy: Describing a quantity of exactly seventy-eight items or units.

Examples of Usage

• Noun (Record):

  • My grandfather has a collection of old seventy-eights from the 1920s.
  • Before vinyl LPs, music was primarily released on seventy-eight records.

• Noun (Number):

  • The answer to the equation is seventy-eight.
  • There are seventy-eight cards in a traditional tarot deck.

• Adjective:

  • She bought seventy-eight apples for the event.
  • The temperature reached seventy-eight degrees.

Advanced Usage

• "78 rpm": This abbreviation (revolutions per minute) is often used interchangeably with "seventy-eight" when referring to the record format.
  • He specializes in restoring 78 rpm records.

Variants and Related Words

• 78 (n): The numerical or abbreviated form.
  • The song was first released as a 78.
• LXXVIII: The Roman numeral for seventy-eight.

Synonyms

• For the number: four score minus two (archaic/poetic).
• For the record: 78 rpm, shellac record, phonograph record (general).

Related Phrases

• "Like a broken record": An idiom meaning to repeat something annoyingly and persistently. While not specific to a seventy-eight, it originates from the era of physical records where a scratch could cause a phrase to repeat.
  • He keeps complaining about the same thing; he sounds like a broken record.

Học thuật

Noun

1. a shellac based phonograph record that played at 78 revolutions per minute
2. the cardinal number that is the sum of seventy and eight

Adjective

1. being eight more than seventy

Từ đồng nghĩa

• 78
• LXXVIII
• lxxviii