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Tape definition

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A recording made on magnetic tape.
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To fasten, secure, strengthen, or wrap with a tape.

Taped the box so that it wouldn't fall apart.

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To record (sounds or pictures) on magnetic tape or other electronic storage medium.

The reporter taped the interview.

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To make a recording on magnetic tape or other electronic storage medium.
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A tape measure.
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A continuous narrow, flexible strip of cloth, metal, paper, or plastic, such as adhesive tape, magnetic tape, or ticker tape.
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A narrow strip of strong woven fabric, as that used in sewing or bookbinding.
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A string stretched across the finish line of a racetrack to be broken by the winner.
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To measure with a tape measure.
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A strong, narrow, woven strip of cotton, linen, etc. used to bind seams in garments, tie bundles, etc.
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A narrow strip or band of steel, paper, etc.
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A strip of cloth stretched between posts above the finishing line of a race.
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To put tape on or around, as for binding or tying.
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To measure by using a tape measure.
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To record (sound, video material, computer data, etc.) on magnetic tape.
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Flexible material in a roll with a sticky surface on one or both sides, adhesive tape.

Hand me some tape. I need to fix a tear in this paper.

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Magnetic or optical recording media in a roll, video tape or audio tape.

Did you get that on tape?

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Unthinking, patterned response triggered by a particular stimulus.

Old couples sometimes will play tapes at each other during a fight.

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Thin and flat paper, plastic or similar flexible material, usually produced in the form of a roll.

After the party there was tape all over the place.

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(trading, from ticker tape) The series of prices at which a financial instrument trades.

Don't fight the tape.

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(ice hockey) The wrapping of the primary puck-handling surface of hockey stick.

His pass was right on the tape.

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To bind with adhesive tape.

Can you tape that together, please?

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To record, particularly onto magnetic tape.

You shouldn't have said that. The microphone was on and we were taping.

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(informal, passive) To understand, figure out.

I've finally got this thing taped.

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A length, reel, or cassette of magnetic tape.
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Noun

Singular:
tape
Plural:
tapes

Origin of tape

  • Middle English strip of cloth from Old English tæppe or tæppa (attested only in the plural tæppan)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Old English tæppe.

    From Wiktionary

Tape Sentence Examples

  • I have a tape of the entire debate.

  • By the time the tape stopped both Martha and Betsy were in tears.

  • I had him tied up pretty good—with the tape recording and all.

  • In the same way the arrangements finally elaborated by Lodge and Muirhead consisted of a direct coupled antenna and nearly closed condenser circuit, and a similar receiving circuit containing as a detector the steel wheel revolving on oily mercury which actuated a siphon recorder writing signals on paper tape.

  • When electric waves fell on the antenna they caused the mercury-steel junction to become conductive during the time they endured, and the siphon recorder therefore to write signals consisting of short or long deflexions of its pen and therefore notches of various length on the ink line drawn on the strip of telegraphic tape.

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