tape
[teyp]
- a long, narrow strip of linen, cotton, or the like, used for tying garments, binding seams or carpets, etc.
- a long, narrow strip of paper, metal, etc.
- a strip of cloth, paper, or plastic with an adhesive surface, used for sealing, binding, or attaching items together; adhesive tape or masking tape.
- tape measure.
- a string stretched across the finishing line in a race and broken by the winning contestant on crossing the line.
- ticker tape.
- magnetic tape.
- a magnetic tape carrying prerecorded sound: a tape of a rock concert.
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- 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.
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- to record something on magnetic tape.
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Origin of tape
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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Contemporary Examples
Then he took the roll and, to hold his shin pads steady, he taped bands above both ankles and just below both knees.
In a video he taped to explain the move, Obama vowed that only fire could fight fire.
It also remained unclear who taped the alleged conversations and why.
I taped it every week and transcribed the sketches and watched them back.
Baldwin introduced the show wearing a jaunty blue blazer, but conducted the taped interview wearing a sober gray suit.
Historical Examples
They started the telecasts which had been filmed and taped on the voyage from Gimli.
Space VikingHenry Beam Piper
All four ate heartily, and, after eating, they taped up the day's reports.
The Galaxy PrimesEdward Elmer Smith
They recalled and taped and sifted all the gossip they had heard.
The Galaxy PrimesEdward Elmer Smith
He pinched the splice lug and taped the whole works feverishly.
Tight SqueezeDean Charles Ing
The message might have been taped under a threat of some great peril.
The Defiant AgentsAndre Alice Norton
tape
- 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)
- See magnetic tape, ticker tape, paper tape, tape recording
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- 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 uphe's got the job taped
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Word Origin
Old English tæppe; related to Old Frisian tapia to pull, Middle Dutch tapen to tear
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Word Origin and History for taped
tape
n.
Old English tæppe "narrow strip of cloth used for tying, measuring, etc.," of uncertain origin, perhaps a back-formation from Latin tapete "carpet." The original short vowel became long in Middle English.
Tape recorder "device for recording sound on magnetic tape" first attested 1932; from earlier meaning "device for recording data on ticker tape" (1892), from tape in the sense of "paper strip of a printer" (1884). Tape-measure is attested from 1873; tape-delay is from 1968.
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tape
v.
c.1600, from tape (n.); meaning "to make a tape recording" is from 1950. Related: Taped; taping.
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
Idioms and Phrases with taped
tape
see red tape.
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