cassette

noun
🔊/kəˈset/
🔊/kəˈset/
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  1. a small flat plastic case containing tape for playing or recording music or sound磁带盒;盒式磁带;卡式磁带
    • a video cassette (= for recording sound and pictures)盒式录像带
    • a cassette tapes盒式磁带
    • a cassette recorder/player盒式磁带录音机/放音机
    • on cassette I remember listening to their first album on cassette. 我记得听过他们的第一张盒式磁带专辑。
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • audio
    • video
    • tape
    verb + cassette
    • insert
    • play
    • put on
    cassette + noun
    • deck
    • player
    • recorder
    preposition
    • on cassette
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  2. a plastic case containing film that can be put into a camera胶片盒;暗盒
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • audio
    • video
    • tape
    verb + cassette
    • insert
    • play
    • put on
    cassette + noun
    • deck
    • player
    • recorder
    preposition
    • on cassette
    See full entry
  3. Word Originlate 18th cent.: from French, diminutive of casse, chasse, from Latin capsa, related to capere ‘to hold’.