tape

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

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

Concepts

bande

enregistrer

ruban

ruban adhésif

bandeau

scotch

cassette

bande magnétique

papier collant

disque

constater

sparadrap

tresse

Mètre ruban

coller avec du scotch

fil d’arrivée

fil de laine

mètre ruban

bande vidéo

tape

ruban de guidon

mètre

lacet

Synonymes

ribbon

🎀

band

record

strip

belt

adhesive tape

tape measure

magnetic tape

string

🪢

girdle

sticky tape

cassette

cassette tape

binding

tie

scotch tape

mag tape

take the bearing

tapeline

lace

fillet

fringe

film

📽️

braid

sash

sellotape

strap

videotape

cord

Scotch tape

tape recording

stripe

taping

tassel

keep

carry

bar

file

capture

fasten

steel tape

document

burn

banding

sound recording

cutting

save

strand

cut

bring

Traductions

cinta

🎀

Band

nastro

🎀

fita

grabar

Klebeband

band

شريط

🪢

Tonband

nastro magnetico

cinta

🎀

ταινία

fita adesiva

nastro adesivo

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/teɪ̯p/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: tape

Hérité de ancien anglais: tæppa

Appartenant à Old Frisian: tapia

Appartenant à Middle Low German: tappen

Appartenant à moyen haut-allemand: zāfen

In summary

From Middle English tape, tappe, from Old English tæppa, tæppe (“ribbon, tape”); further origin unclear. 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”).

Phrases

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

Le ruban est retiré après une semaine et coupé en sections de longueur de jour.

The off-beat protagonist is the Crimson Tape , whose power is to make organizational charts .

Le protagoniste décalé est la bande cramoisie, dont le pouvoir est de faire des tableaux organisationnels.