tape machine

noun

1. a tape recorder.

tape machine

noun

1. another word for tape recorder
2. a telegraphic receiving device that records messages electronically or on ticker tape US equivalentticker

Word History and Origins

Origin of tape machine¹

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

Burnett told me he captured the session on a restored Nagra tape machine as well as a digital recorder.

From Washington Post

“Negativland” buzzes with a distorted twang created by Plank manually phasing two recordings of Dinger playing the shamisen, a Japanese banjo, standing between two tape machines and slowing down one tape and then the other.

From Washington Post

“I didn’t realize I was making an album and there was something about the tape machine that kept me honest.”

From Los Angeles Times

I didn’t realize I was making an album and there was something about the tape machine that kept me honest,” Urie says.

From Seattle Times

Over the next two and a half years, the tape machines picked up nearly four thousand hours of meetings and phone conversations—including an excellent record of the president’s imminent showdown with Daniel Ellsberg.

From Literature