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tape English

Meaning tape meaning

What does tape mean?
Definitions in simple English

tape Noun

— Tape is a long thin material, often with glue on one side or used for recording. We can fix the tear with some tape. The reporters surrounded the president with their cameras, tape recorders and notebooks. The band put three songs on tape. The tape is peeling off my hockey stick.

tape Verb

— If you tape music, a speaker, a TV program, etc., you record it on tape or film. It is not known who taped the conversation or how. I didn't want to stay up to watch the show, so I taped it so I could watch it tomorrow. — If you tape something, you put tape on it. Can you tape this closed for me? Her coach taped her knee before the game.

tape

— 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 (= taping) a recording made on magnetic tape the several recordings were combined on a master tape — noun (= tape measure) 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 — verb (= videotape) record on videotape — verb (= record) register electronically They recorded her singing — noun 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 he took along a dozen tapes to record the interview

Synonyms tape synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as tape?

tape English » English

ribbon band strip record belt adhesive tape tape measure string magnetic tape sticky tape girdle cassette tape cassette binding tie tapeline take the bearing scotch tape mag tape lace fillet videotape tassel taping tape recording stripe strap sellotape sash fringe film cord braid Scotch tape zone yarn write wire webbing twine transcription ticker-tape ticker tape thread tenia tapeworm tape-record tape record tape drive taenia

Topics tape topics

What do people use tape to talk about?
Language and thought Communication Mass communication

Recorded music
States Big

Measure
Work and occupation Tool

Fastening tool
Physical actions Arrange

Join, attach
States Big

Long
Social behavior Social activity Music

Play music
Work and occupation Occupation

Working with cloth
States

Big

Conjugation tape conjugation

How do you conjugate tape?

tape · verb

Examples tape examples

How do I use tape in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I paid 40,000 yen for this tape recorder.
The tape recorder was lying on the table.
Record the broadcast on tape.
Do up the box with decorative tape.
Let's listen to the tape.
The tape recorder has recorded his voice.
This tape recorder is not new.
Once you break the seal, you can't return the tape.
Did you tape that concert?
The tape recorder is a useful aid to teaching.
Is this your tape recorder?
This tape recorder wants repairing.
This tape recorder will make it easier for us to learn English.
This tape sticks well.
This tape doesn't stick.
I will send you a tape of my voice.

Movie subtitles

Well, Barry's gonna tape this and send it to all your co-workers.
Sutton, we're gonna get this tape.
If I let you watch this tape, will you get out of here?
You can hide behind a lot of red tape, crooked lawyers, habeas corpus, witnesses that don't remember, but we'll get through to you like the rest.
Tape measure around the neck and pin-cushion on the hip.
Any rubber tape?
I'd have hit them within an inch of their lives, but I'd no tape measure.
Now, ladies and gentlemen. the President of the New York and Western Railroad. will cut the tape, drive the spike. and bank the eight ball in the corner pocket.
The same formality and red tape.
You see, she got tired of having that adhesive tape over her eyes and mouth.
If you ask me, it's a lot of red tape.
Pretty clever of her to put four priceless jewels among a lot of paste and tape.
Adhesive tape in the box.
Oh, for heaven's sakes, all this idiotic red tape!
Lovemaking is the red tape of marriage.
Darling, I told you. She's running into all sorts of legal red tape over there.
Oh, all this red tape, all this interference holds up business.
Tape his mouth.
They got out a tape measure.
We're trying to tape this.
Just ice water in his veins, ticker tape coming from his heart.
It may take a couple hours of red tape, but they'll get the word.
Now when you switch reservations, you have to go through a little red tape.
I don't like red tape.
If you ask me, it's a lot of red tape. But since they want it, well, all right. Naturally.
Maybe I'd better put some tape on it.
Please, will you get this tape off of me?
Plunked him right down by me. Cut out all the red tape.
Tape or wire?
Tape.
Brushes, tape measures, coils. perfume.
And in the S.I.U., as every seafarer knows, there is no red tape, this whole operation takes 5 minutes, or a little more.
South of Tijuana, the highway settles down to a single winding tape of asphalt and the country opens up.

News and current affairs

When the agent asked how the tape would be removed, he was not given any answer.
Even this limited version would constitute progress; most of the gains arise from removing the red tape that complicates cross-border establishment of small and medium-size service enterprises and limits competition in broad sectors of the economy.
Fortunately, many journalists came to our rescue with tape recorders and cameras rolling.
Structural reforms that increase labor-market flexibility and reduce red tape and related obstacles to new business formation must also be implemented.
The German magazine Der Spiegel recently got hold of a tape of the final negotiating session.
The current European Commission has made clear its commitment to reducing bureaucratic red tape by adopting an approach to regulation that keeps the number of laws we propose to an absolute minimum.
For example, officials could cut red tape, rein in deficits and debt, enact tax policies conducive to capital formation, reform the education system, and invest in research and development.
Although several countries have begun to reduce the red tape that hampers the formation and financing of new companies, most have a long way to go in appreciating and encouraging entrepreneurial activities.
Harvard's researchers ask: is this red tape strictly necessary?
Cutting bureaucratic red tape can help foster a culture of entrepreneurship and dynamism.
A transcript of his comments and sections of the video-tape wound up on a hard-line, pro-regime website, baztab.com.
Corruption must be combated by cutting red tape and overhauling the judiciary.
It is this thicket of red tape that hampers business and deters entrepreneurs.
The EU cannot be the inclusive, thriving, and democratic home that millions dream of if red tape is allowed to strangle the industries that are crucial to European prosperity.
In 2004, shortly before the election, Osama bin Laden released a video tape that may have helped President Bush defeat Senator John Kerry.
The Commission's own internal culture of cautiousness and red tape is a constraint that nobody in Brussels much likes to talk about.
This comes down to structural reforms that spur competition, reduce unnecessary red tape, and make labor markets more adaptable.
In practice, this means cutting red tape so that all businesses can sell their goods and services across a common market of 500 million people.
And, of course, the persistent complaints of corruption and bureaucratic red tape have not faded with liberalization.
After they finished trading stories of endless red tape and arbitrary government decisions, I asked why they kept investing in Argentina.
African nations must do their part by continuing to address corruption, eliminate red tape and reduce obstacles to private-sector growth.
The result is red tape all over and a huge drag on productivity.
Eliminating bureaucratic red tape, as the Commission has now pledged to do, would be a substantial boon to European researchers.

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