0 a brand name for a machine used in an office to record spoken words and later repeat them aloud so that they can be written down
1 a brand name for a machine that is used to record spoken words and later repeat them aloud so that they can be written down
But to talk into the metallic receiver of a mechanical dictaphone has an almost ridiculous air.
I press this button, start a dictaphone, and talk in any direction, anywhere.
I sighed for a dictaphone in which the original Dutch-English might be recorded for the delight of others.
In using the dictaphone, one can do much better work if one is in a room where there is little or nothing to distract attention.
