cassette

«cassette» in Mova's school dictionary: A small plastic box with magnetic tape inside, used to… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a cassette, cassettes)

meaning for a pupil

1) A small plastic box with magnetic tape inside, used to record and play music or sound, popular from the 1970s to the 1990s. tree →

2) A small sealed case that holds film, ink or other things for a machine. tree →

3) (bikes) The set of gear cogs on a bike's back wheel. tree →

sense in the lessons

In history lessons about technology it shows how people listened to music before CDs and streaming. Grandparents may talk about cassette players and mixtapes. Phrases: "cassette tape", "cassette player", "on cassette".

examples

• Mum still has her old cassette tapes. tree →
• You needed a pencil to rewind a tangled cassette. tree →
• Grandad played a cassette in the car. tree →
• We recorded our band on a cassette. tree →
• Cassettes came before CDs and streaming. tree →
• The mechanic changed the cassette on my bike. tree →

note

Pronounced "ka-SET". Spelled with double s and double t. Plural: cassettes. Often shortened to "tape".

In the corpora

• Cassettes were tapes for music, common from the 1970s to the 1990s.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «cassette» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.