tape
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
tape/teɪp/
▶noun
- 1 light, flexible material in a narrow strip, used to hold, fasten, or mark off something.
■ (also adhesive tape) a strip of paper or plastic coated with adhesive, used to stick things together.
- 2 long, narrow material with magnetic properties, used for recording sound, pictures, or computer data.
■ a cassette or reel containing such material.
- 3 a strip of material stretched across the finishing line of a race, to be broken by the winner.
- 4 a tape measure.
- 1 record (sound or pictures) on audio or video tape.
- 2 fasten, attach, or mark off with tape.
– origin OE tæppa, tæppe; perh. rel. to Mid. Low Ger. teppen ‘pluck, tear’.
'tape' also found in these Oxford entries:
audio tape
- bodkin
- bpi
- can
- capstan
- cassette
- cassette tape
- chad
- digital audiotape
- Dolby
- duct tape
- earphone
- elastic
- elasticated
- endless
- EOT
- fast forward
- friction tape
- gaffer tape
- hurricane tape
- insulating tape
- jog-shuttle
- keypunch
- leader
- loop
- magnetic tape
- masking tape
- MC
- measure
- medium
- oral history
- paper tape
- passepartout
- petersham
- punched tape
- red tape
- reel-to-reel
- review
- rewind
- Scotch tape
- Sellotape
- side
- splice
- spool
- sprocket
- streamer
- tape measure
- tape recorder
- ticker tape
