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View synonyms for tape machine

tape machine

noun

  1. a tape recorder.


tape machine

noun

  1. another word for tape recorder
  2. a telegraphic receiving device that records messages electronically or on ticker tape US equivalentticker
“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


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Word History and Origins

Origin of tape machine1

First recorded in 1890–95
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Example Sentences

Till then, nothing—not even these thoughts that ticked as if out of a tape-machine from my brain.

You have to paint me too, you know, and if you want it to be characteristic, make a study of a telephone and a tape-machine.

Do you recognize at any point on any of the exhibits the actual tape machine that was used?

His lordship was indeed there, fingering feverishly the sinuous ribands of the tape-machine.

On the fourth day somebody began to use a vision-tape machine to get information on a fine point in welding.

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