Meaning of CD-player | Babel Free

Examples

“For the ‘consumer,’ CD improves on the gramophone in at least two decisive ways: it cuts out noise, and it cuts out wear. Both advantages come from the fact that the CD-player plays the record, not with a stylus, but with a laser beam which ‘reads off’ digital information from a metal surface protected from casual damage by a transparent coat of plastic.”

“80-watt ACT-design amp with input for CD-player”

“Then there’s the main salon, fully equipped with luxury furniture and an entertainment center including TV, VCR, and CD-player, with stereo speakers installed throughout the vessel.”

“The spa’s spanking new Coyote Inn casitas are monuments to Southwestern sensuality with sybaritic whirlpool tubs, fireplaces, ample supplies of scented candles and fossilized desert-sand bath salts (a fax machine, CD-player, two TVs, Starbucks coffee are other in-room amenities).”

“Suzuki Esteem wagon: Here’s a station wagon with a genuinely useful body style that makes an otherwise cramped small car a viable family car and comes with standard air conditioning, a smooth and decently peppy 122-hp, 1.8-liter, dual-overhead-cam engine, in-dash CD-player, and power steering—all for $13,699.”

“[…] the car is found later in Nashville with not only the CD-player missing and your daughter’s cell phone too but of course the library book, and now your mother’s got a lump in her breast and your elder daughter’s moved back into the house but what you want to know is who’s going to pay the $17 library fine?”

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