tape deck

tape deck
noun
electronic equipment for making or playing magnetic tapes (but without amplifiers or speakers); a component in an audio system
• Hypernyms: ↑electronic equipment
• Hyponyms: ↑cassette deck
• Part Holonyms: ↑audio system, ↑sound system
• Part Meronyms: ↑tape drive, ↑tape transport, ↑transport

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noun
: a device used to play back and often to record on magnetic tape that usually has to be connected to an audio system

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a component of an audio system for playing tapes, using an external amplifier and speakers. Also called deck.
[1955-60]

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tape deck noun
1. A machine for recording sound on tape and playing tape-recorded sound through a separate amplifier as part of a hi-fi system
2. A tape drive
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Main Entry: ↑tape
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tape drive, tape deck or tape transport noun (computing)
A mechanism within a computer or peripheral device which moves magnetic tape across the recording and playback heads
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Main Entry: ↑tape

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tape deck UK US noun [countable] [singular tape deck plural tape decks]
a piece of equipment for playing tapes , especially music cassettes , that is part of a set of equipment containing speakers and an amplifier
Thesaurus: machines for playing sound or pictureshyponym general words for machinery and equipmenthypernym

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tape deck,
1. the mechanical component of a tape recorder, used in high-fidelity systems, computers, and the like: »

The simplest playback machine is the tape deck, which has to be plugged into one's own hi-fi equipment (Harper's).

2. = tape player. (Cf. ↑tape player)

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n. a piece of equipment for playing audiotapes, esp. as part of a stereo system

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noun, pl ⋯ decks [count]
: a machine that plays and records sounds on magnetic tape

a stereo system that includes a tape deck


Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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