turntabling
turntabling is the present participle and gerund of turntable.
Meaning of turntable
Verb
turntable (third-person singular simple present turntables, present participle turntabling, simple past and past participle turntabled)
- To play (a record) using a turntable.
- Traditional carols we all know. Holiday Baroque, Renaissance and medieval music is not, and therefore makes a distinctive gift for the discriminating recordphile and is certain to be turntabled other times of the year, too: […]1982, “Holiday Music”, in Westways, volume 74, Los Angeles, Calif.: Automobile Club of Southern California, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 66, column 3
- To rotate or turn around using, or as if using, a turntable.
- Herein we see a plan wisely borrowed from America, in whose great cities the bulk of the merchandise is not carted along the streets, but turntabled into and out of the warehouse basements from an underground railway.1919, The Architectural Review, volume 45, London: The Architectural Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 28, column 2
- To manipulate sound using turntables; to perform turntablism; to scratch
- We particularly like hovering next to DJ Sid Wilson and seeing how he spends the large chunks of time where he's not turntabling.2017 May 6, Zach Dionne, “Slipknot Classic ‘The Shape’ Gets a 360 Virtual Reality Live Video”, in Fuse, archived from the original on 06 Oct 2017
Questions about turntabling
- What is turntabling the present participle and gerund of?
- Turntabling is the present participle and gerund of turntable.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: turntabling (page history and authors); turntable (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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