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tape

Academic Word List, sublist 6.

About 18.73 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun Flexible material in a roll with a sticky surface on one or both sides; adhesive tape.
    Hand me some tape. I need to fix a tear in this paper.
  2. noun Thin and flat paper, plastic or similar flexible material, usually produced in the form of a roll.
    We made some decorative flowers out of the tape we bought.
  3. noun Finishing tape, stretched across a track to mark the end of a race.
    Jones broke the tape in 47.77 seconds, a new world record.
  4. noun Magnetic or optical recording media in a roll; videotape or audio tape.
    Did you get that on tape?
  5. noun Any video or audio recording, regardless of the method used to produce it.
  6. noun An unthinking, patterned response triggered by a particular stimulus.
    Old couples will sometimes play tapes at each other during a fight.
  7. noun The series of prices at which a financial instrument trades.
    Don’t fight the tape.
  8. noun The wrapping of the primary puck-handling surface of a hockey stick.
    His pass was right on the tape.

Similar words

tapeline tape measure tape recording magnetic tape videotape record mag tape band stripe sticky

Often followed by

recorder and is to or recording of recorders in

Word family

taped tapes taping

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