Sekirov Dictionary

tape

/teɪ̯p/

noun11

  1. thin plastic or paper in a long roll, with one or both sides sticky
  2. Thin and flat paper, plastic or similar flexible material, usually produced in the form of a roll.
  3. Finishing tape, stretched across a track to mark the end of a race.
  4. Magnetic or optical recording media in a roll; videotape or audio tape.
  5. (informal) Any video or audio recording, regardless of the method used to produce it.
  6. Clipping of red tape (“time-consuming bureaucratic procedures”).
  7. The wrapping of the primary puck-handling surface of a hockey stick.
  8. The series of prices at which a financial instrument trades.
  9. (informal) An unthinking, patterned response triggered by a particular stimulus.
  10. (historical) A strong flexible band rotating on pulleys for directing the sheets in a printing machine.
  11. (slang, no longer used) Liquor, alcoholic drink, especially gin or brandy. (Especially in prison slang or among domestic servants and women.)

verb3

  1. To bind with adhesive tape.
  2. To record, originally onto magnetic tape.
  3. (informal) To understand, figure out.
forms

taped · taping · tapes

Phrases with tape

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