Tape
[teɪp] or [tep]
Definition
(noun.) a long thin piece of cloth or paper as used for binding or fastening; 'he used a piece of tape for a belt'; 'he wrapped a tape around the package'.
(noun.) a recording made on magnetic tape; 'the several recordings were combined on a master tape'.
(noun.) measuring instrument consisting of a narrow strip (cloth or metal) marked in inches or centimeters and used for measuring lengths; 'the carpenter should have used his tape measure'.
(noun.) the finishing line for a foot race; 'he broke the tape in record time'.
(verb.) fasten or attach with tape; 'tape the shipping label to the box'.
Typed by Claire--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A narrow fillet or band of cotton or linen; a narrow woven fabric used for strings and the like; as, curtains tied with tape.
(n.) A tapeline; also, a metallic ribbon so marked as to serve as a tapeline; as, a steel tape.
Editor: Terence
Definition
n. a narrow fillet or band of woven work used for strings &c.: a strong flexible band rotating on pulleys for directing the sheets in a printing-machine: the strip of paper used in a printing-telegraph instrument &c.: (slang) liquor.—v.t. to furnish or tie up with tape: to extend.—ns. Tape′-line -meas′ure a measuring-line of tape marked with inches &c.—adj. Tā′pen made of tape.—n. Tā′pist one who uses tape an official formalist.—Breast the tape in foot-racing to touch with the breast the tape or ribbon held by the judge at the finish-line.
Checked by Joy
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of tape, denotes your work will be wearisome and unprofitable. For a woman to buy it, foretells she will find misfortune laying oppression upon her.
Edited by Debra
Examples
- They were all marked and docketed, and tied with red tape. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Each machine was operated by a clerk, who translated the message into telegraphic characters and prepared the transmitting tape by punching the necessary perforations therein. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The receiving instrument at the other end of the line was constructed upon much the same general lines as the transmitter, consisting of a metallic drum and reels for the paper tape. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- By a mechanical device, tape is drawn uniformly under the light marker _P_ attached to the armature. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Hence, the transmitted message was received on the tape in visible dots and dashes representing characters of the Morse alphabet. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He held up a soup-tin-shaped bomb, with a tape wrapping around a wire loop. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Thus, an extended contact was made, which, by transmitting a long impulse, resulted in the marking of a dash upon the receiving tape. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The sheets of paper are held on to the cylinders at their edges by means of tapes, and are so laid on by the workmen, that the type may be impressed on them with an equal margin all round. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- In this machine ordinary type was used, and the type-form was flat and passed beneath a large impression cylinder on which the paper was held by tapes. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- These tapes catch hold of the sheets of paper, and carry them down to the level of the types. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Each sheet of paper is laid by a boy on a web of tapes, by which it is carried round one paper cylinder, and then over and under two wooden drums to the other paper cylinder. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- When my great-grandfather wished to read it to his family, he placed the joint-stool on his knees, and then turned over the leaves under the tapes. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- They had an English Bible, and to conceal it, and place it in safety, it was fastened open with tapes under and within the cover of a joint-stool. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- You had this world all taped, didn't you? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
Editor: Nat