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tape

[teyp] ,noun, verb, taped, tap·ing.
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.
a string stretched across the finishing line in a race and broken by the winning contestant on crossing the line.
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8.
a magnetic tape carrying prerecorded sound: a tape of a rock concert.
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verb (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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Taped is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
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

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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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
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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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taped definition

[tept]
  1. mod.
    finalized; sealed (up); cinched. (As if one were taping a package.) : I'll have this deal taped by Thursday. Then we can take it easy.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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