tape

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. Flexible material in a roll with a sticky surface on one or both sides; adhesive tape.
2. Thin and flat paper, plastic or similar flexible material, usually produced in the form of a roll.
3. Finishing tape, stretched across a track to mark the end of a race.
4. Magnetic or optical recording media in a roll; videotape or audio tape.
5. (informal) Any video or audio recording, regardless of the method used to produce it.
6. (informal) An unthinking, patterned response triggered by a particular stimulus.
7. The series of prices at which a financial instrument trades.
8. The wrapping of the primary puck-handling surface of a hockey stick
9. A strong flexible band rotating on pulleys for directing the sheets in a printing machine.
10. (obsolete,slang) Liquor, alcoholic drink, especially gin or brandy. (Especially in prison slang or among domestic servants and women.)
11. Clipping of red tape (“time-consuming bureaucratic procedures”).

Verb

1. To bind with adhesive tape.
2. To record, originally onto magnetic tape.
3. (informal) To understand, figure out.

Conceptos

cinta

grabar

cinta adhesiva

celo

registrar

cubierta

faja

banda

cinta engomada

cordón

hebra de hilo

hilo

hilo de lana

madeja

pita

zumbel

cinta métrica

metro

franja

fixo

risete

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/teɪ̯p/

Etimología (Inglés)

From Middle English tape, tappe, from Old English tæppa, tæppe (“ribbon, tape”). Probably akin to Old Frisian tapia (“to pull, rip, tear”), Middle Low German tappen, tāpen (“to grab, pull, rip, tear, snatch”), Middle High German zāfen, zāven (“to pull, tear”).

Oraciones

The tape is removed after one week and cut into day-length sections .

La cinta se retira después de una semana y se corta en secciones de duración diurna.