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cassette

[kuh-set, ka-]

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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.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

1955–60; < French, equivalent to casse “box” (see case²) + -ette -ette

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Related Words for cassette

tape, recording

Examples from the Web for cassette

Contemporary Examples of cassette

Cassette tapes, specifically finding them, are also a challenge.
Prisoners Get Cultural Fix with 8-Tracks and Bootleg Cassettes
Daniel Genis
August 18, 2014
Halford, absent from court all morning, arrives late in the afternoon with a large, black double-deck and a cassette.
The Stacks: The Judas Priest Teen Suicide Trial
Ivan Solotaroff
June 28, 2014
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
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.
‘Free to Be…You and Me’ Did Not Emasculate Men
Emily Shire
March 11, 2014
Not until we were all grown up did we know the other had been given a cassette tape too.
Peter Worthington: A Life Well Lived
Justin Green
May 23, 2013

Historical Examples of cassette

No beaux yeux, whether of the cassette or of one's first love, ever subjugate a man so completely as the fascinations of play.
Beatrice Boville and Other Stories
Ouida
It had supplied each of them with a small box, cassette, containing a few articles of clothing.
The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831
Various
The theft of the cassette, however, was a transaction which his enemies never suffered to be forgotten.
Contemporary Socialism
John Rae
The cassette of St. Joseph, wherein were deposited the oboli for the poor, had long been emptied.
The Golden Dog
William Kirby

British Dictionary definitions for cassette

cassette

noun

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

Word Origin for cassette

C18: from French: little box; see case ²

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Word Origin and History for cassette

n.

1793, "little box," from French cassette, from Middle French casset, diminutive of Old North French casse "box" (see case (n.2)). Meaning "magnetic tape recorder cartridge" is from 1960.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper