tape
a strip of cloth, paper, or plastic with an adhesive surface, used for sealing, binding, or attaching items together; adhesive tape or masking tape.
a long, narrow strip of fabric used for tying garments, binding seams or carpets, etc.
a long, narrow strip of paper, metal, etc.
a magnetic tape carrying recorded sound or images: I made a digital copy of that tape of Grandpa playing the violin.
a string stretched across the finishing line in a race and broken by the winning contestant on crossing the line.
to furnish with a tape or tapes.
to tie up, bind, or attach with tape.
to measure with or as if with a tape measure.
to record or prerecord on magnetic tape.
Origin of tape
1Other words from tape
- tapeless, adjective
- tapelike, adjective
- pre·tape, verb (used with object), pre·taped, pre·tap·ing.
- re·tape, verb (used with object), re·taped, re·tap·ing.
- un·taped, adjective
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How to use tape in a sentence
Yes, washi tape is cute and that should be a good enough reason to get some.
Must-have art supplies to let your inner creative shine | Sandra Gutierrez G. | February 11, 2021 | Popular-ScienceUsing a flexible tailors measuring tape you should wrap the tape around the circumference of your hand around the palm.
Best winter gloves: Our picks for touch screen gloves, ski gloves, and more | PopSci Commerce Team | February 2, 2021 | Popular-ScienceThere are mask mandates and tape around desks, an attempt to ensure that no one breaches the six-foot social-distancing rule.
After months of planning, protests and false starts, D.C. students and teachers head to classes for first time in nearly a year | Perry Stein, Lauren Lumpkin, Joe Heim, Laura Meckler | February 2, 2021 | Washington PostIn the 45 cases we examined, the harshest penalty any officer received was a loss of 15 vacation days — for punching a teenager and knocking him unconscious in an incident caught on tape that went viral.
New York City Paid an NBA Star Millions After an NYPD Officer Broke His Leg. The Officer Paid Little Price. | by Mike Hayes for ProPublica | January 12, 2021 | ProPublicaWe’ve often speculated that guys who don’t have much tape might have an unexpected advantage in that first game out.
Lamar Jackson, The Browns And Slime Won The NFL’s Wild-Card Weekend | Sara Ziegler (sara.ziegler@fivethirtyeight.com) | January 11, 2021 | FiveThirtyEight
My agent at the time sent that tape to SNL and then they asked me to come in for an audition.
Coffee Talk with Fred Armisen: On ‘Portlandia,’ Meeting Obama, and Taylor Swift’s Greatness | Marlow Stern | January 7, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTI stood with a tape recorder, listening to men denounce the liberal media controlled by Jews.
Is there any better Beyoncé lyric to use in response to the most shocking celebrity tape this side of One Night in Paris?
Yoncé Said Knock You Out: The Solange and Jay Z Story | Kevin O’Keeffe | December 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI watched Garner die on tape and wondered why I was crying so hard when I am not that much of a cryer at all.
Well, because casinos have cameras everywhere, turns out there was indeed a tape.
He gets out and does things while these fatheads stay in quarters and untangle red tape.
Raw Gold | Bertrand W. SinclairA handkerchief, once red, with polka spots, contained a ragged flannel shirt and a stocking-heel tied with a piece of tape.
A Lost Hero | Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward and Herbert D. WardBlack Hood knew what it was to be a policeman with hands bound by red tape or political intrigue.
He ripped the tape clear and then paused, hand outflung, as if he could not resist this final bit of drama.
We're Friends, Now | Henry HasseEven for doctors to obtain it is an undertaking involving considerable red tape.
British Dictionary definitions for tape
/ (teɪp) /
a long thin strip, made of cotton, linen, etc, used for binding, fastening, etc
any long narrow strip of cellulose, paper, metal, etc, having similar uses
a string stretched across the track at the end of a race course
military slang, mainly British another word for stripe 1 (def. 3)
Also: tape-record (also intr) to record (speech, music, etc)
to furnish with tapes
to bind, measure, secure, or wrap with tape
(usually passive) British informal to take stock of (a person or situation); sum up: he's got the job taped
Origin of tape
1Derived forms of tape
- tapelike, adjective
- taper, noun
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Other Idioms and Phrases with tape
see red tape.
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