Definitions

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  • noun An extremely small tape for use with a tape player, cassette player, or dictation machine.

Etymologies

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micro- +‎ cassette

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Examples

  • He read my lines into a microcassette recorder with that sour voice of his.

    The Influence of Anxiety Chris Okum 2011

  • Other than having the children and Asif speak just three months after their mother and their wife, the most powerful part of the film was being able to find these microcassette tapes that actually had been forgotten about for 15 years.

    Dan Lybarger: A Complicated Legacy: Duane Baughman on Bhutto Dan Lybarger 2011

  • Other than having the children and Asif speak just three months after their mother and their wife, the most powerful part of the film was being able to find these microcassette tapes that actually had been forgotten about for 15 years.

    Dan Lybarger: A Complicated Legacy: Duane Baughman on Bhutto Dan Lybarger 2011

  • Other than having the children and Asif speak just three months after their mother and their wife, the most powerful part of the film was being able to find these microcassette tapes that actually had been forgotten about for 15 years.

    Dan Lybarger: A Complicated Legacy: Duane Baughman on Bhutto Dan Lybarger 2011

  • During OPEVAL, Carlson had bought a microcassette tape recorder and surreptitiously taped meetings on maintenance data.

    The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

  • Maybe that's because every microcassette recorder I have ever bought there has broken.

    Pick of the day: The lost tribes of Radio Shack 2010

  • During OPEVAL, Carlson had bought a microcassette tape recorder and surreptitiously taped meetings on maintenance data.

    The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

  • During OPEVAL, Carlson had bought a microcassette tape recorder and surreptitiously taped meetings on maintenance data.

    The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

  • For those 40-something-plus interviews with authors, artists, editors and whatnot, I relied on my trusty microcassette recorder from the newspaper days.

    Jayme Lynn Blaschke's Gibberish 2009

  • For those 40-something-plus interviews with authors, artists, editors and whatnot, I relied on my trusty microcassette recorder from the newspaper days.

    Archive 2009-06-01 2009

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