cassette player
5
2.7
- noun
- /kəˈsɛt ˈpleɪər/
- Archaic
:
reproductor de casetes
- She took out her favorite mixtape and inserted it into the cassette player to enjoy some nostalgic tunes.
- a portable cassette player
- a stereo cassette player
- a radio cassette player
Now that I've said that, who chose the four band radio and cassette player?
- Now that I've said that, who chose the four band radio and cassette player?
- I press the button on the cassette player, play them the message and ask him to buy it.
Examples
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The music was played on a Pioneer cassette player at a constant volume.
Academic text (1992) -
Rebecca walks over to the stereo and turns on the cassette player.
Fiction book (1993) -
The challenge with with the cassette players is everyone wants them.
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All this money, you have a cassette player?!
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But someone left a cassette player outside your hotel room door.
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Radio works good, even got a cassette player.
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But when you get there, make sure you show them your really cool cassette player.
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In the record store, he bought a portable cassette player and one tape.
Fiction book (1996) -
Rogers, can I borrow your cassette player?
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Last spring, I was dubbing a tape for use in my car cassette player.
Academic text (1993)
Synonyms
220
1.6
A device or program that lets you watch video and hear audio files
69
2.4
A machine that records and plays sound on tape
8
4.7
A machine that plays or records sound on cassette tapes
7
2.0
A machine that uses cassette tapes to let you hear recorded music
4
3.2
A device that records or plays sound on magnetic tape
3
2.7
A small machine that records and plays sound on cassette tapes
1
4.6
A device that plays and records sound on cassette tapes
How Portable
- Specialized
220
1.6
- Archaic
3
2.7
- Archaic
5
2.7
- Archaic
4
3.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound 'cassette player' is directly and compositionally derived from 'cassette' (a tape/container for audio) + 'player' (a device that plays media), so its meaning — a device for playing cassettes — is immediately inferable. This noun–noun compounding pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows standard English word-formation, making it transparent to learners who know both constituents.
Etymology
Cassette player comes from the small plastic cassette, a little box with tape inside, and the player, the device that makes the tape play, so the name means 'a machine that plays cassettes'.