tape

Meaning

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”).

ribbon

take the bearing

mag tape

scotch tape

tape record

ticker-tape

audio type

cingule

narrowband

tenia

strand of wool

ribbon tape

metallic tape

film recording

magnetic belt

rubber belt

composite tape

narrow tape

storage tape

recorded tape

magnetic recording tape

magnet band

steel measuring tape

long steel tape

metallic band tape

flex steel tape

retractable steel rule

steel band tape

music cassette

compact cassette

sound recording

steel tape

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/teɪ̯p/

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”).

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