tape recorder

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tape recorder

A mechanical device for recording on magnetic tape and usually for playing back the recorded material.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

tape recorder

(Electronics) an electrical device used for recording sounds on magnetic tape and usually also for reproducing them, consisting of a tape deck and one or more amplifiers and loudspeakers

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

tape′ record`er

an electrical device for recording or playing back something recorded on magnetic tape, usu. sound.

[1940–45]

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Noun

tape recorder - a magnetic recorder using magnetic tape

tape machine

Dictaphone - a tape recorder that records and reproduces dictation

magnetic head - an electromagnet (as on a tape recorder) that converts electrical variations into magnetic variations that can be stored on a surface and later retrieved

magnetic recorder - recorder consisting of equipment for making records on magnetic media

tape drive, tape transport, transport - a mechanism that transports magnetic tape across the read/write heads of a tape playback/recorder

VCR, videocassette recorder - a magnetic tape recorder for recording (and playing back) TV programs

Translations

مُسَجِّلَة

magnetofon

båndoptager

Tonbandgerät

μαγνητόφωνο

grabadora magnetofón

magnetofoninauhuri

magnétophone

diktafon

magnetofonmagnó

magnetofono registratore registratore a nastro

テープレコーダー

녹음기

magnetofon

bandspelare

เครื่องอัดเทป

ses kayıt cihazı

máy ghi âm

磁带录音机

tape recorder

n → registratore m (a nastro)

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

tape recorder

→ مُسَجِّلَة magnetofon båndoptager Tonbandgerät μαγνητόφωνο grabadora, magnetofón nauhuri magnétophone diktafon registratore テープレコーダー 녹음기 taperecorder båndopptaker magnetofon gravador магнитофон bandspelare เครื่องอัดเทป ses kayıt cihazı máy ghi âm 磁带录音机

Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009

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Asked if the crash was his fault, Cavendish snapped: "Was what my fault?" He then took the tape recorder - later returned by the team's press officer - and retreated inside their bus.

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Surely the advances made in the field of electronics had not made the tape recorder or Dictaphone redundant!

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"If no one comes forward we may have to struggle along with a tape recorder or using different pianists.

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All I'm saying is that I don't take notes or use a tape recorder because it induces a self-consciousness on their part if you tell people you're going to do something.

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I recommend that you make sure to have a clipboard and paper, tape recorder, or PDA to take notes and tie down the variables.

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So farewell to an era of sitting in front of the telly with a reel-to-reel tape recorder to tape the latest sounds, man.

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"I used to fly into different cities and drive around industrial parks with a tape recorder next to me," he recalls.

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Elsewhere here, songs such as Life Wasted and Comatose are wrapped in "back to basics" production v alues that suggest an old reel-to-reel tape recorder was left running.

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A basic Yellow School Bus package (GPS phone, cameras, panic button, tape recorder and card readers) goes for $400 to $500 per bus with monthly charges around $30 per vehicle.

"Magic" Bus: technology brings a new way to track precious cargo

In the first, we see a barren room with a young man sitting behind a tape recorder. Another man, played by Fisher himself, busily enters; he tests the recording machine and eventually goes into a back room, which, when illuminated, turns out to be a projection booth.

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A jealous husband who attacked his estranged wife after putting a tape recorder in her bedroom to see if she was being unfaithful has been spared jail.