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noun
1.
a long, narrow strip of linen, cotton, or the like, used for tying garments, binding seams or carpets, etc.
2.
a long, narrow strip of paper, metal, etc.
3.
a strip of cloth, paper, or plastic with an adhesive surface, used for sealing, binding, or attaching items together; adhesive tape or masking tape.
5.
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COLLAPSEverb (used with object)
9.
to furnish with a tape or tapes.
10.
to tie up, bind, or attach with tape.
11.
to measure with or as if with a tape measure.
12.
to record or prerecord on magnetic tape.
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verb (used without object)
13.
to record something on magnetic tape.
Origin:
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
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
Related forms
tape·less, adjective
tape·like, adjective
pre·tape, verb (used with object), -taped, -tap·ing.
re·tape, verb (used with object), -taped, -tap·ing.
un·taped, adjective
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| tape (teɪp) | |
| —n | |
| 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 chiefly (Brit) military another word for stripe |
| 5. | magnetic tape ticker tape paper tape See tape recording |
| —vb | |
| 6. | (also intr) Also: tape-record to record (speech, music, etc) |
| 7. | to furnish with tapes |
| 8. | to bind, measure, secure, or wrap with tape |
| 9. | informal (Brit) (usually passive) to take stock of (a person or situation); sum up: he's got the job taped |
| [Old English tæppe; related to Old Frisian tapia to pull, Middle Dutch tapen to tear] | |
| 'tapelike | |
| —adj | |
| 'taper | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
tape
O.E. tæppe "narrow strip of cloth used for tying, measuring, etc.," of uncertain origin, perhaps a back-formation from L. tapete "carpet." The original short vowel became long in M.E. The verb is from 1609; meaning "to make a tape recording" is from 1950. Tape recorder "device for recording sound
EXPANDon 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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