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# turntable

«turntable» in Mova's school dictionary: **the round flat part of a record player that spins the record** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a turntable, turntables)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A turntable is the round flat part of a record player that spins the record. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turntable/#m1)

2) A turntable is any flat round platform that turns, such as one that turns trains around or a spinning plate in a microwave. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turntable/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life a microwave has a turntable so food heats evenly. In music, DJs use turntables. In science, a turntable shows turning and circular motion, and in history lessons about railways, a big turntable turns engines to face the other way. Phrases: «on the turntable», «a microwave turntable», «record turntable».

### examples

- Put the bowl in the middle of the microwave turntable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turntable/#x1)
- Grandma's old turntable plays vinyl records. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turntable/#x2)
- The DJ spun records on two turntables. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turntable/#x3)
- The steam engine was turned around on a turntable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turntable/#x4)
- The cake sits on a turntable so you can ice all sides. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turntable/#x5)
- The turntable spins round and round. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turntable/#x6)

### note

Countable noun, plural turntables; one word. «Turntable» is a thing; «turn table» as two words is not standard. A «lazy Susan» is a turntable for food on a table.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «turntable» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turntable/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.