Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small flat case containing two reels and a length of magnetic tape that winds between them, often used in audio and video recorders and players and as a medium for storing data in digital form.
- n. A lightproof cartridge containing photographic film or plates, used in specially designed cameras.
- n. A cartridge for holding and winding typewriter or printer ribbon while in the machine.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In the manufacture of chinaware, a utensil made of potters' clay with sand, in which the ware is baked. It is usually round, with a flat bottom. Also called coffin.
- n. In photography, a flat box holding one or two plates which are to be exposed in a camera; a plate-holder.
Wiktionary
- n. A small flat case containing magnetic tape on two reels, used to record and play back audio and video material.
- n. Any similar small cartridge, such as for a computer disk.
- n. photography A lightproof container for photographic film.
- n. genetics A modular DNA sequence encoding one or more genes for a single biochemical function.
- n. A set of sprockets mounted onto a splined shaft on the freehub.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Same as seggar.
- n. a small case to hold a removable part of some mechanism, designed for convenience in inserting and removing the working part. Most commonly referring to a tape cassette, made mostly of plastic, which holds a reel of magnetic tape for tape players or tape recorders or video cassette recorders. The term may refer, as for tape cassettes, to the integrated case plus tape, or sometimes only to the case itself separate from the contents.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a container that holds a magnetic tape used for recording or playing sound or video
Etymologies
- From French cassette. (Wiktionary)
- French, small box, from Old French, diminutive of Norman French casse, case; see case2. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The Oxford English Dictionary says it is removing the term "cassette player" from its Concise dictionary.”
The Wall Street Journal: Miss the Hiss? Fanatics Flip for Tunes on Cassette Tapes
“Later, he got books on cassette from the Library for the Blind.”
The Huffington Post: Valerie Tarico: Worshipping the Written Word
“In two somewhat-related news articles last week, the cassette is being brought back by people who are interpreting it as an art project, and classic vinyl album covers are being issued as stamps.”
“This morning I pulled out the cassette from the player to find out that a lengthy section of the tape had come out.”
“The library has long offered a large collection of audiobooks in cassette and CD formats, but this marks its first foray into digital audio technology.”
“Last year, 85 million kronor (about 1$3,925,760 at the time of writing) in cassette compensation was collected and redistributed by the copyright organisation Copyswede," says The Local.”
“You can get better quality by recording to cassette from the radio, oftentimes.”
“Nirvana - Nevermind -- the cassette is still in the huge box of cassettes I rarely touch”
“Bertrand E, Castanotto D, Zhou C, Carbonnelle C, Lee NS, et al. (1997) The expression cassette determines the functional activity of ribozymes in mammalian cells by controlling their intracellular localization.”
“Last year, feted indie bands Deerhunter and the Dirty Projectors both took the unusual step of putting out albums on cassette, and Universal made the celebrity poetry album Words for You Britain's first major-label cassette release in six years.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cassette’.
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SCIE - EU nomenclature
All the scientific words found in the official EU nomenclature. For the screening I used Vocabgrabber of the Visual Thesaurus.
silicon, silica, shrimp, shelve, shallot, serine, seedling, septic, secretin, seaweed, screening, Scomber and 1171 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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Mountain Biking
Words that relate to bicycling or mountain biking
crank, podium, attack position, bonk, rock garden, babyheads, bunny hop, chain, chainring, clipless, freeride, slicks and 204 more...
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CycList
Anything related to cycling; no motorcycling, please.
frame, pedal, crank arm, top tube, down tube, seat tube, seat stay, chain stay, saddle, fork, hub, rim and 97 more...
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madmelanie's Words
monkey, folderol, snark, snarky, flibbertigibbet, faith, asshat, pirouette, avuncular, exegesis, memento mori, verisimilitude and 379 more...
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boychoir's Words
tantamount, nom de guerre, absurd, dolt, transmute, dichotomy, dandy, schadenfreude, ennui, binary, analog, obfuscate and 93 more...
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vari-ettes
ranchette, vinette, towelette, rosette, septette, silhouette, pirouette, roomette, roulette, omelette, majorette, gazette and 52 more...
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Double Your Fun
Words with at least two sets of double letters.
starbuccaneer, hootenanny, squirrelly, whippersnapper, appassionato, mississippi, balloon, flibbertigibbet, success, misspelled, suffragette, trapper keeper and 13 more...
Tweets
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alexz in cycling, it's a group of sprockets mounted on the rear wheel. This is a removable part which can be exchanged for one with a different set of gear ratios.
Jan 12, 2013