CD-player

See also: CD player

English

Noun

CD-player (plural CD-players)

1. Alternative form of CD player.
   • 1983 February 27, Stephen Walsh, “The magic disc”, in The Observer, number 9990, page 31, column 7:

     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.

   • 1984 August 12, South Bend Tribune‎^[1], volume CXII, number 156:

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

   • 1996 November, Dan Fales, “Dream Queen”, in Motor Boating & Sailing, volume 178, number 5, page 106, column 2:

     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.

   • 2000 October, Allison Kyle Leopold, “Hot spas”, in Bazaar, number 3467, pages 30–33:

     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).

   • 2001 August, Eric Peters, “Some Budget Buggies For Under $15,000”, in Consumers’ Research Magazine, volume 84, number 8, page 23, column 1:

     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.

   • 2005, Gregory Blake Smith, “A Few Moral Problems You Might Like to Ponder, of a Winter’s Evening, in Front of the Fire, with a Cat on Your Lap”, in New England Review, volume 26, number 1, page 118:

     […] 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?