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tape

[ teyp ]

noun

  1. a strip of cloth, paper, or plastic with an adhesive surface, used for sealing, binding, or attaching items together; adhesive tape or masking tape.
  2. a long, narrow strip of fabric used for tying garments, binding seams or carpets, etc.
  3. a long, narrow strip of paper, metal, etc.
  4. a magnetic tape carrying recorded sound or images:

    I made a digital copy of that tape of Grandpa playing the violin.

  5. a string stretched across the finishing line in a race and broken by the winning contestant on crossing the line.


verb (used with object)

taped, taping.
  1. to furnish with a tape or tapes.
  2. to tie up, bind, or attach with tape.
  3. to measure with or as if with a tape measure.
  4. to record or prerecord on magnetic tape.

verb (used without object)

taped, taping.
  1. to record something on magnetic tape.

tape

/ teɪp /

noun

  1. a long thin strip, made of cotton, linen, etc, used for binding, fastening, etc
  2. any long narrow strip of cellulose, paper, metal, etc, having similar uses
  3. a string stretched across the track at the end of a race course
  4. slang.
    military another word for stripe 1
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. Alsotape-record also intr to record (speech, music, etc)
  2. to furnish with tapes
  3. to bind, measure, secure, or wrap with tape
  4. informal.
    usually passive to take stock of (a person or situation); sum up

    he's got the job taped

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈtaper, noun
  • ˈtapeˌlike, adjective
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Other Words From

  • tapeless adjective
  • tapelike adjective
  • pre·tape verb (used with object) pretaped pretaping
  • re·tape verb (used with object) retaped retaping
  • un·taped adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of tape1

First recorded before 1000; Middle English; unexplained variant of tappe, Old English tæppe “strip (of cloth),” literally, “part torn off”; akin to Middle Low German teppen “to tear, pluck”
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Word History and Origins

Origin of tape1

Old English tæppe; related to Old Frisian tapia to pull, Middle Dutch tapen to tear
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Idioms and Phrases

see red tape .
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Example Sentences

He said the government's 25-year plan would see more focus on food production, profitability and clearing planning red tape for farmers.

From BBC

As a tape recording of the White House gathering demonstrated, however, the president made no such comment.

From Salon

The idea was to capture the excitement of their live show direct to tape – with an audience of family and friends to stop them obsessing over the technicalities of recording.

From BBC

In 2015, Hogan was embroiled in controversy after a tape was released of him using a racial slur to describe his daughter’s then boyfriend.

Have gloves, goggles, duct tape and plastic sheeting in case of something like a falling tree branch breaking a window.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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