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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

/ ³Ù±ðɪ±è /

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

  • ˈ³Ù²¹±è±ð°ù, noun
  • ˈ³Ù²¹±è±ðËŒ±ô¾±°ì±ð, adjective
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ³Ù²¹±è±ðl±ð²õ²õ adjective
  • ³Ù²¹±è±ðl¾±°ì±ð adjective
  • ±è°ù±ð·³Ù²¹±è±ð verb (used with object) pretaped pretaping
  • °ù±ð·³Ù²¹±è±ð verb (used with object) retaped retaping
  • ³Ü²Ô·³Ù²¹±è±ð»å adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of tape1

First recorded before 1000; Middle English; unexplained variant of tappe, Old English ³Ùæ±è±è±ð “strip (of cloth),†literally, “part torn offâ€; akin to Middle Low German teppen “to tear, pluckâ€
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of tape1

Old English ³Ùæ±è±è±ð; 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

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Chancellor Rachel Reeves said the pilot would ensure the hospitality industry had "the conditions to grow" and was not "tied down by unnecessarily burdensome red tape".

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Among them are working tapes from the sessions that led to rock classic Born In The USA, and an album that experimented with drum loops and synthesisers from the early 1990s.

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In class, the security officer told the teacher to not remove the tape from her mouth, because she continued to be too disruptive, Hurtado said.

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Ministers are pushing their "agenda for growth" at every opportunity, calling for red tape to be cut to pave the way for investment.

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The person covered one surveillance camera with duct tape but was filmed by a separate camera throwing a chunk of concrete at the car multiple times and cutting the tires, police said.

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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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