sony

name

1. An international electronics and media company based in Tokyo, Japan.

   “he mostly makes videos—virtually reinventing the diary form with his Sony 8 scrapbook.”

   “Bernstein always understood this symphony, and his Sony recording was for many years one of the best.”

   “Gary’s roster currently has Tritt and two new Sony artists soon to be hugely famous, JEB and Christy Sutherland.”

   “Most of the e-mails were blowback from the departure of our divisional vice president, Crawford, who’d just jumped ship to Sony.”

   “Jade Raymond, the executive in charge of SG&E who previously worked at Sony (SNE), Electronic Arts (EA) and Ubisoft (UBSFF), will leave Google (GOOG) to “pursue other opportunities,” Harrison added.”

noun

1. A device produced by Sony.

   “Connie Chung, the pretty Chinese CBS correspondent, occupied the room next to mine at the Hyatt House and she was always back by midnight, reciting a final sixty-second radio spot into her Sony or absorbing one last press release before getting a good night’s sleep.”

   “It’s not clear what the witch doctors are doing, but the scientists have been wandering the riverbank with their Sonys or Hitachis, playing the recorded chirpings of newly hatched crocodiles in hopes of either stirring maternal instinct in the (almost surely) female man-eater or tempting her to infanticidal cannibalism, which would be far more likely.”

   “My memoirs. At night I leave a Sony by my bed. Night is the best time for remembering.”

   “The common threads that exist between the fisherman and his Sony and the project above. Robert Smithson's 'Incidents of mirror travel in the Yucatan' are important.”

   “My personal choice would be to drag these vultures from their rental cars and gently disassemble their Sonys.”

2. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of sonny.

   “He often would say, ‘My father will not come from Washington time enough to see his sony.'”