tape machine

American  

noun

1. a tape recorder.

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tape machine British  

noun

1. another word for tape recorder

2. US equivalent: ticker.  a telegraphic receiving device that records messages electronically or on ticker tape

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Etymology

Origin of tape machine

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

I didn’t realize I was making an album and there was something about the tape machine that kept me honest,” Urie says.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 15, 2022

As chance would have it, his elder brother was the singer in a band - so Stewart took his microphone, borrowed a reel-to-reel tape machine and made his first recording, of an Eurasian Blackbird.

From BBC • Dec. 1, 2021

At times, Ball would haul the bulky tape machine to meet a celebrity off-site.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 3, 2021

On the edge of the witness box was the tape machine that she was listening to, her headphones, a foot pedal which was underneath on the floor, and the machine.

From Salon • Mar. 2, 2020

I felt intrusive, as reporters often do, and I began to think that a tape machine between two people who were supposedly friends was a foreign object, an artificial ear.

From "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom