Cassette
noun
A small plastic case for a reel of magnetic tape, used in devices like tape recorders and video players.
I found an old cassette of the Beatles in my dad's collection.
Often appears as...
- cassette tape
- cassette player
noun
A case that holds photographic film or plates, often to protect them from light or for loading into cameras easily.
She loaded a new cassette into her film camera.
Often appears as...
- film cassette
- cassette loading
noun
A part used in bicycling that contains gears that chain can move on.
He replaced the cassette on his bicycle.
Often appears as...
- bicycle cassette
- cassette gears
noun
In genetics, a sequence of DNA that can be easily inserted or removed at one site within a plasmid, used in studying gene function.
Through the use of a cassette, scientists can study the function of specific genes.
Often appears as...
- gene cassette
- cassette mutagenesis
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Technical
noun
A small plastic case for a reel of magnetic tape, used in devices like tape recorders and video players.
I found an old cassette of the Beatles in my dad's collection.
Often appears as...
- cassette tape
- cassette player
noun
A case that holds photographic film or plates, often to protect them from light or for loading into cameras easily.
She loaded a new cassette into her film camera.
Often appears as...
- film cassette
- cassette loading
noun
A part used in bicycling that contains gears that chain can move on.
He replaced the cassette on his bicycle.
Often appears as...
- bicycle cassette
- cassette gears
noun
In genetics, a sequence of DNA that can be easily inserted or removed at one site within a plasmid, used in studying gene function.
Through the use of a cassette, scientists can study the function of specific genes.
Often appears as...
- gene cassette
- cassette mutagenesis
Usage tips
Technical
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Pro Tip 1/2Obsolescence
Cassettes are outdated for music and video; modern alternatives like CDs or streaming services have replaced them.
My grandparents still play music on cassettes, while I use Spotify.
Pro Tip 2/2Cultural Icon
Cassettes are often seen in retro or vintage contexts, symbolizing past decades like the '80s and '90s.
The movie had a nostalgic scene with teens exchanging mixtapes on cassettes.
Pro Tip 1/2Obsolescence
Cassettes are outdated for music and video; modern alternatives like CDs or streaming services have replaced them.
My grandparents still play music on cassettes, while I use Spotify.
Pro Tip 2/2Cultural Icon
Cassettes are often seen in retro or vintage contexts, symbolizing past decades like the '80s and '90s.
The movie had a nostalgic scene with teens exchanging mixtapes on cassettes.
Pro Tip 1/2Obsolescence
Cassettes are outdated for music and video; modern alternatives like CDs or streaming services have replaced them.
My grandparents still play music on cassettes, while I use Spotify.
Pro Tip 2/2Cultural Icon
Cassettes are often seen in retro or vintage contexts, symbolizing past decades like the '80s and '90s.
The movie had a nostalgic scene with teens exchanging mixtapes on cassettes.
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Nabiha Saklayen: Could...
with stacks and stacks of hundreds and then eventually millions of cassettes, each cassette a personalized bank for one human. Nurses will take a sample of your cord blood right at birth and ship it off for cultivation, so that for the rest of your life, your stem cells are on file, banked,
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How record collectors...
So when I was a teenager, the obsession of buying cassettes, vinyls and CDs just kept growing. I was even working in a record store for many years and only ever got paid in records. One day I realized that I had thousands of records more than I could even listen to in my life.
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Defend our freedom to...
that scarcity started to get eroded -- and I don't mean by digital technology; I mean by analog technology. Cassette tapes, video cassette recorders, even the humble Xerox machine created new opportunities for us to behave in ways that astonished the media business.
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Earworms: Those songs...
The last hundred years have seen an incredible proliferation of devices that help you listen to the same thing again and again. Records, cassettes, CDs, or streamed audio files. Have these technologies bread some kind of unique, contemporary experience,
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"Where Love Is Illegal":...
and I have my, my cassette film, my shutter, my cape, and I asked her to come into the frame. And she covers her face below these large dark eyes with a scarf in order to protect her identity, and she starts posing. And she pushes out her buttock
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The Secret Somali...
a small crew of employees regular folks like producers technicians and news readers are staying behind to try and protect a slice of their city's culture before they escape they're pulling cassettes and reel-to-reel recordings down from the
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The Secret of Musical...
grammys too and a producer gets an idea let's ask her to sing nest and dorma so he runs to aretha's dressing room pops the cassette into a boom box and plays the song for her and says hey can you sing this like on stage now she said
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Filming Birds of...
tape cassette of footage upon which was about seven minutes of footage now that might sound like a lot but for a camera operator to do a month of filming and have about seven minutes of footage if i'm honest i came out the hide i
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Living in a shadow PIPE...
cassette tapes of her music to Barry and his wife Margaret Kilgallen who was also an artist Margaret was beautiful a wisp of a woman with wavy auburn hair and vivid blue eyes self-effacing but stubborn an idealist and an imp she
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The Rise of the Cali...
they thought they were on the top of the world. JIM They were planning to eventually become the Kennedys of Colombia. WILLIAM In the narcos cassettes,
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Nabiha Saklayen: Could...
with stacks and stacks of hundreds and then eventually millions of cassettes, each cassette a personalized bank for one human. Nurses will take a sample of your cord blood right at birth and ship it off for cultivation, so that for the rest of your life, your stem cells are on file, banked,
Video examples
How record collectors...
So when I was a teenager, the obsession of buying cassettes, vinyls and CDs just kept growing. I was even working in a record store for many years and only ever got paid in records. One day I realized that I had thousands of records more than I could even listen to in my life.
Video examples
Defend our freedom to...
that scarcity started to get eroded -- and I don't mean by digital technology; I mean by analog technology. Cassette tapes, video cassette recorders, even the humble Xerox machine created new opportunities for us to behave in ways that astonished the media business.
Video examples
Earworms: Those songs...
The last hundred years have seen an incredible proliferation of devices that help you listen to the same thing again and again. Records, cassettes, CDs, or streamed audio files. Have these technologies bread some kind of unique, contemporary experience,
Video examples
"Where Love Is Illegal":...
and I have my, my cassette film, my shutter, my cape, and I asked her to come into the frame. And she covers her face below these large dark eyes with a scarf in order to protect her identity, and she starts posing. And she pushes out her buttock
Video examples
The Secret Somali...
a small crew of employees regular folks like producers technicians and news readers are staying behind to try and protect a slice of their city's culture before they escape they're pulling cassettes and reel-to-reel recordings down from the
Video examples
The Secret of Musical...
grammys too and a producer gets an idea let's ask her to sing nest and dorma so he runs to aretha's dressing room pops the cassette into a boom box and plays the song for her and says hey can you sing this like on stage now she said
Video examples
Filming Birds of...
tape cassette of footage upon which was about seven minutes of footage now that might sound like a lot but for a camera operator to do a month of filming and have about seven minutes of footage if i'm honest i came out the hide i
Video examples
Living in a shadow PIPE...
cassette tapes of her music to Barry and his wife Margaret Kilgallen who was also an artist Margaret was beautiful a wisp of a woman with wavy auburn hair and vivid blue eyes self-effacing but stubborn an idealist and an imp she
Video examples
The Rise of the Cali...
they thought they were on the top of the world. JIM They were planning to eventually become the Kennedys of Colombia. WILLIAM In the narcos cassettes,
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Michel Faber
Dutch Writer
I'm constantly listening to music and thinking about it and compiling my own cassettes and CDs in obsessively specific order. I have quite lunatic agendas for what I want to achieve. They won't make sense to anyone other than me, but it is what I've spent most of my life doing.
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Yandel
Puerto Rican Musician
At first, because this genre of music was so urban, sometimes we would sing songs that were so aggressive. And my parents didn't like it. They would break my cassettes and say, 'That music is garbage.
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Fred Silverman
American Producer
Succeeding in network prime time has gotten tougher. Every day, several thousand homes are wired for cable, and more people are buying videodisks and video cassettes. That all represents competition.
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Harland Williams
Canadian Actor
I used to do little sketches into my cassette tape recorder when I was a little boy. I would just turn it on and just start doing voices and characters. I just loved it.
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Gilbert O'Sullivan
Irish Musician
Technology has very little to do with what I do. I have a purpose built studio but all I need for writing is my piano and a cassette recorder as I still use cassettes.
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Clive Davis
American Businessman
I never paid attention when the LP became the cassette and the cassette became the CD and now we're dealing, you know, with MP3s. It's okay.
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Christopher McCulloch
American Writer
My first cassette was 'Synchronicity,' and my first CD was U2 'War' and King Crimson 'Discipline.
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Jermaine Fowler
American Actor
I used to record 'Futurama' episodes on my cassette player and play it to help me go to sleep.
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Frank Sinatra Jr.
American Singer
I spend a lot of time visiting friends, watching video cassette movies, and things like that.
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Laura Jane Grace
American Musician
At 8, I got my first cassette, which was Def Leppard's 'Hysteria.
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Michel Faber
Dutch Writer
I'm constantly listening to music and thinking about it and compiling my own cassettes and CDs in obsessively specific order. I have quite lunatic agendas for what I want to achieve. They won't make sense to anyone other than me, but it is what I've spent most of my life doing.
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Yandel
Puerto Rican Musician
At first, because this genre of music was so urban, sometimes we would sing songs that were so aggressive. And my parents didn't like it. They would break my cassettes and say, 'That music is garbage.
Quote examples
Fred Silverman
American Producer
Succeeding in network prime time has gotten tougher. Every day, several thousand homes are wired for cable, and more people are buying videodisks and video cassettes. That all represents competition.
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Harland Williams
Canadian Actor
I used to do little sketches into my cassette tape recorder when I was a little boy. I would just turn it on and just start doing voices and characters. I just loved it.
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Gilbert O'Sullivan
Irish Musician
Technology has very little to do with what I do. I have a purpose built studio but all I need for writing is my piano and a cassette recorder as I still use cassettes.
Quote examples
Clive Davis
American Businessman
I never paid attention when the LP became the cassette and the cassette became the CD and now we're dealing, you know, with MP3s. It's okay.
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Christopher McCulloch
American Writer
My first cassette was 'Synchronicity,' and my first CD was U2 'War' and King Crimson 'Discipline.
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Jermaine Fowler
American Actor
I used to record 'Futurama' episodes on my cassette player and play it to help me go to sleep.
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Frank Sinatra Jr.
American Singer
I spend a lot of time visiting friends, watching video cassette movies, and things like that.
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Laura Jane Grace
American Musician
At 8, I got my first cassette, which was Def Leppard's 'Hysteria.
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