cassette tape
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2.4
- noun
- /kəˈsɛt teɪp/
- Archaic
:
casete
- I found an old cassette tape of my favorite songs in the attic.
- cassette tape recorder
- Books on cassette tape
It also kind of looks like a cassette tape if you know what that is.
- It also kind of looks like a cassette tape if you know what that is.
- So they were literally made on little cassette tapes.
- I was there and you could put a cassette tape and it would say the words of the story.
- And the catchhrase at the time was be kind rewind, rewinding these cassette tapes.
- And Sam had like a cassette tape recorder and like a little microphone.
- Put tape over the left side of the cassette tape, record, record over it.
- And I you'd put a TDKA cassette tape.
- And that was also when I first got in touch, when I was introduced to Hate Hate rock was cassette tape.
Examples
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Curious, she had torn the envelope open and found a cassette tape—that and nothing else.
Fiction book (2000) -
I fill three legal pads with notes and half a dozen cassette tapes with his thoughts about everything.
Fiction book (1995) -
And he put a cassette tape in my car.
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The first cassette tape we both ever owned was Weird Al, and I still have mine.
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Play your own cassette tapes.
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He got a cassette tape.
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One of the students contributed three folk-tale books and one cassette tape from home on the traditional unit.
Academic text (1994) -
So I popped the cassette tape in and on the tape was, Hi, this is Donna Shore from the Donna Shore show.
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The Derek Jacobi one ran on TV, and we have Richard Burton on cassette tapes at the library.
Fiction book (1993) -
There are shelves filled with CDs and cassette tapes, an electronic keyboard, and speakers as big as refrigerators.
Fiction book (1996)
Synonyms
81
2.6
A small flat plastic case that holds tape for music or video
36
3.7
A long strip of tape for recording sound
17
2.9
Sound or pictures saved on long plastic tape for playing later
1
4.9
A small plastic case holding a thin tape that stores music or voice for tape players
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derived from combining 'cassette' (a container for recording) and 'tape' (a strip that holds sound): together they denote a tape housed in a cassette. This is a straightforward noun–noun compound following common compositional patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Cassette tape is named after the object itself: a small flat cassette, a little box, that holds a long thin tape that stores sound. So the name came to mean the device people used 'to record and play music'.