Car cassette player
Definition
A radio-cassette player specially designed and built to be mounted on board a motor vehicle, intended for receiving radio broadcasts and playing back sound from magnetic cassettes.
Bilingual Equivalents
- Car cassette player
- Car radio deck
Grammatical & Source Details
| Inflection Type | Neuter noun with standard plural structural variations modifying regularly across syntactic cases. |
| Formation | Lexical compound formed from the automotive prefix 'auto-' and the noun 'casetofon' (cassette player). |
| Spelling / Pronunciation | [a.u.to.ka.se.to.ˈfon] |
| Source | Lexicon of Vintage Consumer Electronics, Automotive Accessories, and Audio Engineering |
Contextual Usage Examples
RO: Bunicul păstrează cu grijă un autocasetofon vechi în torpedoul mașinii sale de epocă.
EN: Grandfather carefully keeps an old car cassette player in the glove compartment of his vintage car.
RO: Hoțul a spart geamul mașinii pentru a fura un autocasetofon, dar a fost prins rapid de poliție.
EN: The thief broke the car window to steal a cassette player, but was quickly caught by the police.
RO: Mecanicul a verificat cablurile din spatele acestui autocasetofon pentru a repara contactul imperfect al difuzoarelor.
EN: The mechanic checked the wires behind this car cassette player to fix the speaker's loose contact.
Idioms & Phrases
Autocasetofon de epocă / Vintage car cassette player / retro car radio deck
RO: Aparat audio vechi, căutat de colecționarii de mașini clasice pentru a păstra aspectul original al bordului.
EN: An old audio device sought after by classic car collectors to preserve the original appearance of the dashboard.
Funcție autorevers la autocasetofon / Auto-reverse feature on a car deck
RO: Mecanism intern care permitea schimbarea automată a direcției de rulare a benzii magnetice fără a scoate caseta.
EN: An internal mechanism that allowed automatic direction change of the magnetic tape without removing the cassette.
Montare de autocasetofon / Car radio installation / mounting a cassette player
RO: Procesul tehnic de conectare a sistemului audio la rețeaua electrică a mașinii și la difuzoare prin cabluri ISO standard.
EN: The technical process of connecting the audio system to the car's electrical grid and speakers via standard ISO cables.
Latest Contextual News
No recent news found for this topic.