Meaning of tape | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Flexible material in a roll with a sticky surface on one or both sides; adhesive tape.
   countable, uncountable
2. Flexible material in a roll with a sticky surface on one or both sides; adhesive tape
3. Thin and flat paper, plastic or similar flexible material, usually produced in the form of a roll.
   countable, uncountable
4. Thin and flat paper, plastic or similar flexible material, usually produced in the form of a roll
5. Finishing tape, stretched across a track to mark the end of a race.
   countable, uncountable
6. Finishing tape, stretched across a track to mark the end of a race
7. Magnetic or optical recording media in a roll; videotape or audio tape.
   countable, uncountable
8. Magnetic or optical recording media in a roll; videotape or audio tape
9. Any video or audio recording, regardless of the method used to produce it.
   broadly, countable, informal, uncountable
10. Any video or audio recording, regardless of the method used to produce it
11. An unthinking, patterned response triggered by a particular stimulus.
    countable, informal, uncountable
12. The series of prices at which a financial instrument trades.
    countable, uncountable
13. The wrapping of the primary puck-handling surface of a hockey stick.
    countable, uncountable
14. A strong flexible band rotating on pulleys for directing the sheets in a printing machine.
    countable, historical, uncountable
15. Liquor, alcoholic drink, especially gin or brandy. (Especially in prison slang or among domestic servants and women.)
    UK, countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable
16. Clipping of red tape (“time-consuming bureaucratic procedures”).
    abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Hand me some tape. I need to fix a tear in this paper.”

“I sealed up the box with clear shipping tape.”

“We made some decorative flowers out of the tape we bought.”

“Jones broke the tape in 47.77 seconds, a new world record.”

“Did you get that on tape?”

“So we went around the corner, looked in the garbage, and, boom, there's about 16 of the tapes he didn't like!”

““It was one of the most severe beatings they’ve seen on tape,” an FDNY insider said, recalling the reaction by brass who viewed video of the bloody fisticuffs.”

“Old couples will sometimes play tapes at each other during a fight.”

“Don’t fight the tape.”

“His pass was right on the tape.”

“white tape, Holland tape, blue tape (gin); red tape (brandy or wine)”

“Madam Gin has been christened by as many names as a German princess : every petty chandler's shop will sell you Sky-blue, and every night-cellar furnish you with Holland tape, three yards a penny. Nor can I see the difference […]”

“[…] who is now puffing his pipe and sipping his grog, as unconcerned as a Dutch fiddler at a merry-making, has no business here selling his cheese and candles in the day-time, and his yards of tape in the evening: […] and now then for the tape-shop. […]”

“A tumbler of blue ruin fill, fill for me! / Red tape those as likes it may drain, / But whatever the lush, it a bumper must be. / […] / Oh! those jovial days are ne'er forgot! But the tape lags—When I be's dead, you'll drink one put To poor old Bags!”

“[When dealing with the] Federal Government, "red tape" is unavoidable. Perseverance, good humor and thoroughness will almost invariably cut through the "tape” or lead to the proper official where courteous and attentive treatment will be received.”

“He was going to cut through the tape and ship this Army stuff straight to France.”

“Mr. Cheney: […] to move in the direction of deciding that the only way to get anything done, to cut through the red tape, to be able to move aggressively, is to have it done, in effect, inside the boundary of the White House. […] Mr. North: […] there are certainly times when one has to cut through the tape.”

“As Treasurer and Governor of Texas, she had an ability to cut through the tape and conventions to get stuff done and make things better. She modernized systems, made government more transparent and accountable and[…]”

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