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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cassette/#m1)

2) A small sealed case that holds film, ink or other things for a machine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cassette/#m2)

3) (bikes) The set of gear cogs on a bike's back wheel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cassette/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cassette/#x1)
- You needed a pencil to rewind a tangled cassette. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cassette/#x2)
- Grandad played a cassette in the car. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cassette/#x3)
- We recorded our band on a cassette. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cassette/#x4)
- Cassettes came before CDs and streaming. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cassette/#x5)
- The mechanic changed the cassette on my bike. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cassette/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/126-in-the-olden-days/19/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cassette» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cassette/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.