| tape | |
| 1. n. 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. n. Thin and flat paper, plastic or similar flexible material, usually produced in the form of a roll. | |
| After the party there was tape all over the place. | |
| 3. n. 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. n. Magnetic or optical recording media in a roll; videotape or audio tape. | |
| Did you get that on tape? | |
| 5. n. (informal, by extension) Any video or audio recording, regardless of the method used to produce it. | |
| 6. n. (informal) An unthinking, patterned response triggered by a particular stimulus. | |
| Old couples will sometimes play tapes at each other during a fight. | |
| 7. n. (trading, from ticker tape) The series of prices at which a financial instrument trades. | |
| Don’t fight the tape. | |
| 8. n. (ice hockey) The wrapping of the primary puck-handling surface of a hockey stick | |
| His pass was right on the tape. | |
| 9. v. To bind with adhesive tape. | |
| Be sure to tape your parcel securely before posting it. | |
| 10. v. To record, particularly onto magnetic tape. | |
| You shouldn’t have said that. The microphone was on and we were taping. | |
| 11. v. (informal, passive) To understand, figure out. | |
| I've finally got this thing taped. | |
