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Definition of Long-playing
1. Adjective. (used of records) playing at a slower speed and for a longer time than earlier records.
Definition of Long-playing
1. Adjective. Referring to records that recorded a greater amount of sound than previous versions had, an LP, generally a 12 inch 33 1/3 RPM record. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Long-playing
Literary usage of Long-playing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Reportby American-Scandinavian Foundation by American-Scandinavian Foundation (1916)
"The Music Center initiated late in 1952 a plan to make epresentative examples of
Scandinavian folk music available or release on long playing discs, ..."
2. Deconstructing the Computer: Report of a Symposium by Dale Weldeau Jorgenson, Charles W. Wessner (2005)
"... volume of televisions quite high, a great deal of work was done toward creating
a video laser player for a long-playing disc designed to rival the LP. ..."
3. The royal phraseological English-French, French-English dictionary by John Charles Tarver (1853)
"Y at-il longtemps gué vous êtes au jeu, have you been long playing 1 Nous tommes
à deux de jeu, we are each within two game» of winning the «et— (jig. ..."
4. The Metropolitan (1832)
"... about ten inches long, playing about in every part. The road was steep, and
in several parts the rock was cut into steps to enable you to ascend. ..."
5. Despatches, Correspondence, and Memoranda of Field Marshall Arthur, Duke of by Arthur Richard Wellesley Wellington (1868)
"Lord Beresford will be playing (indeed he has been too long playing) the game of
the revolutionary party, if he takes the earliest possible opportunity of ..."
6. University Musical Encyclopedia by Louis Charles Elson (1912)
"Together with an excellent guitar-player named Lea, he would wander all night
long playing under the windows of their friends and improvising the most ..."
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