tape

Meaning

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.

Synonyms

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

Translations

cinta

🎀

bande

Band

nastro

🎀

fita

enregistrer

ruban

grabar

band

Klebeband

Tonband

شريط

🪢

nastro magnetico

ruban adhésif

Pronounced as (IPA)

/teɪ̯p/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: tape

Inherited from Old English: tæppa

Cognate with Old Frisian: tapia

Cognate with Middle Low German: tappen

Cognate with Middle High German: 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”).

Sentences

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

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