Definitions for cassettes

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cassettes cas·sette

Spelling: [kuh-set, ka-]

IPA: /kəˈsɛt, kæ-/

Cassettes is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 188 anagrams from letters in cassettes (aceessstt).

Definitions for cassettes

noun

1. Also called cassette tape. a compact case containing a length of magnetic tape that runs between two small reels: used for recording or playback of audio or video in a tape recorder, cassette deck, video camera, or VCR, and for storage of data by some small computer systems. See also audiocassette, videocassette.
2. Photography. a lightproof metal or plastic container for a roll of film, having a single spool for supplying and rewinding the film.
3. a replaceable or refillable cartridge in a typewriter or printer that contains the ribbon or ink.
4. a case or tray in a printer or copier that holds the paper.
5. Also called cassette tape. a compact case containing a length of magnetic tape that runs between two small reels: used for recording or playback of audio or video in a tape recorder, cassette deck, video camera, or VCR, and for storage of data by some small computer systems. See also audiocassette, videocassette.
6. Photography. a lightproof metal or plastic container for a roll of film, having a single spool for supplying and rewinding the film.
7. a replaceable or refillable cartridge in a typewriter or printer that contains the ribbon or ink.
8. a case or tray in a printer or copier that holds the paper.

Origin of cassettes

1955-60; French, equivalent to casse “box” (see case²) + -ette -ette

Examples for cassettes

It had supplied each of them with a small box, cassette, containing a few articles of clothing.

Not until we were all grown up did we know the other had been given a cassette tape too.

Growing up in the 1990s, I watched Free to Be on VHS and listened to the songs on a cassette tape over and over again.

cassette tapes, specifically finding them, are also a challenge.

The theft of the cassette, however, was a transaction which his enemies never suffered to be forgotten.

The Carrie Diaries is set in 1984, and there are a lot of references to that period in the show—huge cellphones, cassette players.

No beaux yeux, whether of the cassette or of one's first love, ever subjugate a man so completely as the fascinations of play.

During the ride, Jai Johany plays lacy Afro jazz on a cassette machine, frowning, saying nothing.

Halford, absent from court all morning, arrives late in the afternoon with a large, black double-deck and a cassette.

The cassette of St. Joseph, wherein were deposited the oboli for the poor, had long been emptied.

Growing up in the 1990s, I watched Free to Be on VHS and listened to the songs on a cassette tape over and over again.

The cassette of St. Joseph, wherein were deposited the oboli for the poor, had long been emptied.

It had supplied each of them with a small box, cassette, containing a few articles of clothing.

cassette tapes, specifically finding them, are also a challenge.

No beaux yeux, whether of the cassette or of one's first love, ever subjugate a man so completely as the fascinations of play.

The Carrie Diaries is set in 1984, and there are a lot of references to that period in the show—huge cellphones, cassette players.

The theft of the cassette, however, was a transaction which his enemies never suffered to be forgotten.

Not until we were all grown up did we know the other had been given a cassette tape too.

During the ride, Jai Johany plays lacy Afro jazz on a cassette machine, frowning, saying nothing.

Halford, absent from court all morning, arrives late in the afternoon with a large, black double-deck and a cassette.