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▸ noun: Thin and flat paper, plastic or similar flexible material, usually produced in the form of a roll.
▸ noun: Finishing tape, stretched across a track to mark the end of a race.
▸ noun: Magnetic or optical recording media in a roll; videotape or audio tape.
▸ noun: (informal, by extension) Any video or audio recording, regardless of the method used to produce it.
▸ noun: (informal) An unthinking, patterned response triggered by a particular stimulus.
▸ noun: (trading, from ticker tape) The series of prices at which a financial instrument trades.
▸ noun: (ice hockey) The wrapping of the primary puck-handling surface of a hockey stick
▸ noun: (printing, historical) A strong flexible band rotating on pulleys for directing the sheets in a printing machine.
▸ noun: (possible, obsolete, UK, slang) Liquor, alcoholic drink, especially gin or brandy. (Especially in prison slang or among domestic servants and women.)
▸ verb: To bind with adhesive tape.
▸ verb: To record, originally onto magnetic tape.
▸ verb: (informal, passive voice) To understand, figure out.
▸ noun: Clipping of red tape (“time-consuming bureaucratic procedures”). [The binding tape once used for holding important documents together.]
Similar:
tapeline,
tape recording,
videotape,
magnetic tape,
record,
tape measure,
mag tape,
retape,
cassette,
microcassette,
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Types:
duct tape,
masking tape,
painters tape,
electrical tape,
gaffers tape,
Scotch tape,
packing tape,
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