tape

Phonetic

US /teɪp/UK /teɪp/

Translations

NOUNFlexible material in a roll with a sticky surface on one or both sides; adhesive tape., Thin and flat paper, plastic or similar flexible material, usually produced in the form of a roll., Finishing tape, stretched across a track to mark the end of a race., Magnetic or optical recording media in a roll; videotape or audio tape., Any video or audio recording, regardless of the method used to produce it., An unthinking, patterned response triggered by a particular stimulus., The series of prices at which a financial instrument trades., The wrapping of the primary puck-handling surface of a hockey stick, A strong flexible band rotating on pulleys for directing the sheets in a printing machine., Liquor, alcoholic drink, especially gin or brandy. (Especially in prison slang or among domestic servants and women.), Clipping of red tape (“time-consuming bureaucratic procedures”).

VERBTo bind with adhesive tape., To record, originally onto magnetic tape., To understand, figure out.

Variants

tapes: Third Person Singular, Plural
taping: Present Participle
taped: Past Participle, Past Tense

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Officials have promised to cut the red tape that makes it so easy for corrupt inspectors to extort bribes to turn a blind eye, such as criminal penalties for a tiny misstatement of the weight of a packet of biscuits.
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red tape
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But he also needed a way to view the image once it was saved on the magnetic tape.
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What to Know About the Ticker/ˈtɪkər/-Tape Parade for the Knicks关于尼克斯队彩带游行的须知关闭
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The ugly saga, which began in a fusillade/ˈfjuːsəlɑːd/ of bullets and was then mired by legal setbacks and red tape, concludes this month just as the same anti-immigration rhetoric that may have inspired the Walmart gunman returns with Mr.
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