pickup arm

Questions about pickup arm

What is another word for pickup arm?

It depends which pickup arm you mean. In the sense “mechanical device consisting of a light balanced arm that carries the cartridge”, the synonyms are tone arm, pickup. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of pickup arm?

WordNet records no antonym for pickup arm. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for pickup arm come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of pickup arm

• Full entry for pickup armAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for pickup armWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.