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Tape

noun

1.

A long thin piece of cloth or paper as used for binding or fastening. "He wrapped a tape around the package"

2.

A recording made on magnetic tape. Synonyms: tape recording, taping.

3.

The finishing line for a foot race.

4.

Measuring instrument consisting of a narrow strip (cloth or metal) marked in inches or centimeters and used for measuring lengths. Synonyms: tape measure, tapeline.

5.

Memory device consisting of a long thin plastic strip coated with iron oxide; used to record audio or video signals or to store computer information. Synonyms: mag tape, magnetic tape.

verb

(past & past part. taped; pres. part. taping)

1.

Fasten or attach with tape.

2.

Record on videotape. Synonym: videotape.

3.

Register electronically. Synonym: record. Antonym: erase.

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"Tape" Quotes from Famous Books

... thoughtfully. "I did all I dared. You see, until our license comes I am not expected to transmit messages from this station. We have to get from the government both an operator's license and a permit for the station; and although I put in the application promptly there is so much red tape about it that it seems as if the inspector would never show up. If I had been caught sending a message this morning without these blooming papers there would have been the deuce of a row. However, I took a chance because I felt the emergency demanded it, and because being one of ...

— Walter and the Wireless • Sara Ware Bassett

... a very pale, warm gray, the line of demarcation between it and the very dark brown, which constitutes the general color of the body, being very abrupt. The bill is of a vermilion red, and surmounted by a bright orange-colored crest, with a black border as positively marked as if of black tape. At this season we usually see the drakes flying together, and the ducks in separate bands, reminding one of the division of sexes in a country meeting-house. We often came upon an immense body of drakes sitting upon the edge of an ice-floe, looking very much like a regiment ...

— Schwatka's Search • William H. Gilder

... sawdust; you salt it in glue: You condense it with locusts and tape; Still keeping one principal object in view— To preserve its ...

— A Nonsense Anthology • Collected by Carolyn Wells

... officers were thus elected at one fell swoop and with an entire absence of that red tape which commonly renders organization so tiresome, Candace Milliken suggesting that perhaps she'd better be vice-president, as Emma Jane Perkins was ...

— New Chronicles of Rebecca • Kate Douglas Wiggin

... plate-glass with levels); a powerful telescope with astronomical eyepiece and stand; a prismatic, a luminous, a floating, and two pocket compasses; maximum and minimum thermometers, a case of drawing instruments, protractors, parallel rules, tape rules, a silver water-tight half-chronometer watch and three other watches, section paper in books and in large sheets, Raper's and the Nautical Almanac for 1897 ...

— In the Forbidden Land • Arnold Henry Savage Landor

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