cassette
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.: See also 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.
Origin of cassette
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How to use cassette in a sentence
I absorbed their sorrow in the wistful Vietnamese ballads my parents played on their cassette tapes and their anguish in the stories my relatives shared about their childhood homes I never saw.
The U.S. Offered My Family a Home After the Vietnam War. It Must Do the Same for Those Fleeing Afghanistan | Aimee Phan | August 17, 2021 | TimeGone are the days of books on cassettes that were sold in big, cumbersome bricks of 10 or more tapes.
Best Audible books: The most popular titles and best sellers for your listening pleasure | Irena Collaku | July 29, 2021 | Popular-ScienceWhy we would ever want to go back to torturing our bodies by carrying plastic cartridges that play music is beyond me, but we certainly are—2020 saw an increase in cassette sales of 103 percent compared to the previous year.
I would rewind the cassette over and over, manically running around my room, yelling and doing ferocious dunks on my Fisher Price four-foot plastic hoop.
Debating How Space Jam: A New Legacy Stacks Up Against the Original | Cady Lang | July 19, 2021 | TimeOne system is called Yoto, but it’s got much more in common with a cassette player than a smart speaker.
As a result, prisoners collect, collate, trade and secretly alter cassette tapes of their desired sounds, which are rap and R&B.
Prisoners Get Cultural Fix with 8-Tracks and Bootleg Cassettes | Daniel Genis | August 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTcassette tapes, specifically finding them, are also a challenge.
Prisoners Get Cultural Fix with 8-Tracks and Bootleg Cassettes | Daniel Genis | August 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHalford, 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.
Stacks: Hitting the Note with the Allman Brothers Band | Grover Lewis | March 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTGrowing 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 Mystery of the Yellow Room | Gaston LerouxThe theft of the cassette, however, was a transaction which his enemies never suffered to be forgotten.
Contemporary Socialism | John RaeThe cassette of St. Joseph, wherein were deposited the oboli for the poor, had long been emptied.
The Golden Dog | William KirbyII rencontra la Relique prs de Sens; elle toit enferme dans une triple cassette.
The Churches of Paris | S. Sophia BealeIt had supplied each of them with a small box, cassette, containing a few articles of clothing.
British Dictionary definitions for cassette
/ (kæˈsɛt) /
a plastic container for magnetic tape, as one inserted into a tape deck
(as modifier): a cassette recorder
photog another term for cartridge (def. 5)
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
Origin of cassette
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