tape

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: tape

1	n v	a long thin piece of cloth or paper as used for binding or fastening fasten or attach with tape
2	n v	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 record on videotape

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: tape

“he used a piece of tape for a belt”

“he wrapped a tape around the package”

Types:: show 8 types...; hide 8 types...; adhesive tape
tape coated with adhesive; inkle
a linen tape used for trimming as a decoration; webbing
a narrow closely woven tape; used in upholstery or for seat belts; Scotch tape, Sellotape, cellulose tape
transparent or semitransparent adhesive tape (trade names Scotch tape and Sellotape) used for sealing or attaching or mending; duct tape
a wide silvery adhesive tape intended to seal joints in sheet metal duct work but having many other uses; friction tape, insulating tape
a water-resistant adhesive tape used to insulate exposed electrical conductors; masking paper, masking tape
adhesive tape used to cover the part of a surface that should not be painted; adhesive plaster, plaster, sticking plaster
adhesive tape used in dressing wounds

Type of:: slip, strip
artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material

“he broke the tape in record time”

Type of:: finish line, finishing line
a line indicating the location of the finish of a race

“the carpenter should have used his tape measure”

Type of:: measuring device, measuring instrument, measuring system
instrument that shows the extent or amount or quantity or degree of something

“tape the shipping label to the box”

“he took along a dozen tapes to record the interview”

Types:: show 4 types...; hide 4 types...; audiotape
magnetic tape for use in recording sound; cassette tape
a cassette that contains magnetic tape; magnetic stripe
a short strip of magnetic tape attached to a credit card or debit card; it contains data that will tell a reading device who you are and what your account number is, etc.; videotape
a relatively wide magnetic tape for use in recording visual images and associated sound

Type of:: memory device, storage device
a device that preserves information for retrieval

“the several recordings were combined on a master tape”

Types:: audiotape
a tape recording of sound; videotape
a video recording made on magnetic tape; DAT, digital audiotape
a digital tape recording of sound

Type of:: recording
a storage device on which information (sounds or images) have been recorded

Type of:: enter, put down, record
make a record of; set down in permanent form

Antonyms:: delete, erase
wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information

Types:: show 6 types...; hide 6 types...; save, write
record data on a computer; tape record
record with a tape recorder; prerecord
record before presentation, as of a broadcast; cut
record a performance on (a medium); cut
make a recording of; overwrite
write new data on top of existing data and thus erase the previously existing data

Type of:: enter, put down, record
make a record of; set down in permanent form

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