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cassette
[ kuh-set, ka- ]
noun
- Also called cassette tape. a compact case containing a length of magnetic tape that runs between two small reels: used for recording or playback of audio or video in a tape recorder, cassette deck, video camera, or VCR, and for storage of data by some small computer systems. audiocassette, videocassette.
- Photography. a lightproof metal or plastic container for a roll of film, having a single spool for supplying and rewinding the film.
- a replaceable or refillable cartridge in a typewriter or printer that contains the ribbon or ink.
- a case or tray in a printer or copier that holds the paper.
cassette
/ kæˈsɛt /
noun
- a plastic container for magnetic tape, as one inserted into a tape deck
- ( as modifier )
a cassette recorder
- See cartridgephotog another term for cartridge
- films a container for film used to facilitate the loading of a camera or projector, esp when the film is used in the form of a loop
- the injection of genes from one species into the fertilized egg of another species
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Origin of cassette1
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Example Sentences
As a result, prisoners collect, collate, trade and secretly alter cassette tapes of their desired sounds, which are rap and R&B.
Cassette tapes, specifically finding them, are also a challenge.
Halford, absent from court all morning, arrives late in the afternoon with a large, black double-deck and a cassette.
During the ride, Jai Johany plays lacy Afro jazz on a cassette machine, frowning, saying nothing.
Growing up in the 1990s, I watched Free to Be on VHS and listened to the songs on a cassette tape over and over again.
Monsieur Cassette had not sold another such cane during the last two years.
The theft of the cassette, however, was a transaction which his enemies never suffered to be forgotten.
The cassette of St. Joseph, wherein were deposited the oboli for the poor, had long been emptied.
II rencontra la Relique prs de Sens; elle toit enferme dans une triple cassette.
It had supplied each of them with a small box, cassette, containing a few articles of clothing.
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