tape recorder

noun

1. an electrical device for recording or playing back sound, video, or data on magnetic tape.

tape recorder

noun

1. an electrical device used for recording sounds on magnetic tape and usually also for reproducing them, consisting of a tape deck and one or more amplifiers and loudspeakers

Word History and Origins

Origin of tape recorder¹

First recorded in 1940–45

Example Sentences

This is when the head you’ll see to the left of the drive on a tape recorder comes into play.

From Popular-Science

I do not have a tape recorder, a cell phone or a camera, much less a computer here, so I went back to the prehistory of journalism, where everything was done with a pencil.

From Washington Blade

He had brought with him a little tape recorder, and he literally said, “Now this is the record button and this is the play button, and you push them at the same time.”

From Ozy

I stood with a tape recorder, listening to men denounce the liberal media controlled by Jews.

From The Daily Beast

But sitting in a room with a guy and tape recorder asking those questions had to have been frustrating at the time, right?

From The Daily Beast

Griffin is herself a character in the novel, the invisible hand on the other end of the tape recorder in all the interviews.

From The Daily Beast

Had Richard III been able to install a tape recorder in his palaces the ranting might well have been identical.

From The Daily Beast

Amy Starr suddenly grabs the tape recorder out of my hand and yells into it.

From The Daily Beast

Then the general motioned to the clerk seated in the corner by a tape recorder.

From Project Gutenberg

There wasn't a sound in the control room except for the impulses from the tape recorder, which ran on unnoticed.

From Project Gutenberg

There was the insistent ticking of a clock and the soft shushing sound of a tape recorder.

From Project Gutenberg

The tape recorder stuck to the bottom of the Taber conference coffeepot had cost Senator Crane a hundred dollars.

From Project Gutenberg

Did you have a tape recorder in and about your home during that period?

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• cassette recorder