audiotape

noun

Etymology

From audio + tape.

  1. inherited from tæppa
  2. inherited from tape
  3. compounded as audiotape — “audio + tape

Definitions

  1. A magnetic tape that stores analog sound for later playback on a tape player.

    • I thought of an old ad for Memorex audiotape. It showed a crystal glass being shattered by sound vibrations. By pure harmonics.
  2. Any of a cassette tape, eight-track tape, reel-to-reel tape, DAT, etc.

  3. To record onto audiotape.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for audiotape. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA