tape

See also: tapé and tápe

Contents

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle English tape, tappe, from Old English tæppa, tæppe (“band, strip, ribbon, fillet, tape”). Probably akin to Old Frisian tapia (“to pull, rip, tear”), Middle Low German tappen, tāpen (“to grab, pull, rip, tear, snatch”), Middle High German zāfen, zāven (“to pull, tear”).

PronunciationEdit

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /teɪ̯p/, [tʰeɪ̯p]

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪp

NounEdit

tape (plural tapes)

A videotape

1. 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. 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. 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. Magnetic or optical recording media in a roll; videotape or audio tape.

   Did you get that on tape?

5. Unthinking, patterned response triggered by a particular stimulus

   Old couples sometimes will play tapes at each other during a fight.

6. (trading, from ticker tape) The series of prices at which a financial instrument trades.

   Don’t fight the tape.

7. (ice hockey) The wrapping of the primary puck-handling surface of a hockey stick

   His pass was right on the tape.

Derived termsEdit

Derived terms

• adhesive tape
• audiotape, audio tape
• cassette tape
• cut red tape
• double-sided tape
• duck tape
• duct tape
• gaffer tape
• gray tape
• magnetic tape
• masking tape
• on tape

• police tape
• red tape
• Scotch tape
• sellotape, Sellotape
• sex tape
• sticky tape
• tale of the tape
• tape measure
• tape recorder
• tapeworm
• ticker tape
• videotape

TranslationsEdit

adhesive tape — see adhesive tape

video or audiocassette tape

• Arabic: شَرِيط‏‎ m (šarīṭ)
• Basque: zinta, kasete (eu)
• Belarusian: сту́жка f (stúžka)
• Bulgarian: ле́нта (bg) f (lénta)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 錄音帶 (zh), 录音带 (zh) (lùyīndài)

• Czech: páska (cs) f
• Danish: bånd (da) n
• Dutch: band (nl) m, n
• Finnish: nauha (fi), teippi (fi)
• French: bande (fr) f
• German: Band (de) n
• Greenlandic: båndi
• Hindi: टेप (hi) (ṭep)
• Hungarian: szalag (hu)
• Italian: nastro (it) m, audiocassetta f, videocassetta (it) f

• Japanese: テープ (ja) (tēpu)
• Korean: 테이프 (ko) (teipeu)
• Luxembourgish: Band n
• Macedonian: касета f (kaseta)
• Persian: نوار‏‎ (fa) (navvâr)
• Polish: taśma (pl) f
• Portuguese: fita (pt) f
• Romanian: bandă (ro) f
• Russian: ле́нта (ru) f (lénta), кассе́та (ru) f (kasséta)
• Spanish: cinta (es) f
• Swedish: band (sv) n, tape (sv) c
• Thai: เทป (téep)
• Turkmen: skoç, kaseta
• Ukrainian: стрічка f (stríčka)
• Urdu: ٹیپ‏‎ (ṭep)
• Vietnamese: băng (vi)

VerbEdit

tape (third-person singular simple present tapes, present participle taping, simple past and past participle taped)

1. To bind with adhesive tape.

   Can you tape that together, please?

2. To record, particularly onto magnetic tape.

   You shouldn’t have said that. The microphone was on and we were taping.

3. (informal, passive) To understand, figure out.

   I've finally got this thing taped.

TranslationsEdit

to bind with adhesive tape

• Spanish: atar (es)

• Vietnamese: dán (vi), dính (vi)

to record, particularly onto magnetic tape

• Spanish: grabar (es)

• Vietnamese: ghi (vi), thu (vi)

Related termsEdit

• roll tape
• tape off

AnagramsEdit

• PETA, Pate, Peat, Peta, epta-, pate, peat, peta-, pâté, tepa

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DanishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From English tape (“adhesive tape”).

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /tɛjp/, [tˢɛjb̥]

NounEdit

tape c (singular definite tapen, not used in plural form)

1. Scotch tape, adhesive tape

Usage notesEdit

Rarely used in the sense video or audiocassette tape as a synonym to bånd. In this case it is neuter gender, singular definite tapet, plural indefinite tapes or tape, plural definite tapene.

SynonymsEdit

• klisterbånd
• klæbestrimmel

Further readingEdit

• tape on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Etymology 2Edit

From English tape (“to bind with adhesive tape”).

PronunciationEdit

• infinitive IPA^(key): /tɛjpə/, [ˈtˢɛjb̥ə]
• imperative IPA^(key): /tɛjp/, [tˢɛjb̥ˀ]

VerbEdit

tape (imperative tape, infinitive at tape, present tense taper, past tense tapede, perfect tense er/har tapet)

1. tape (to bind with adhesive tape) [from 1965]

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DutchEdit

PronunciationEdit

• Audio

  (file)

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English tape.

NounEdit

tape m (plural tapes, diminutive tapeje n)

1. tape

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FrenchEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /tap/

NounEdit

tape f (plural tapes)

1. a gentle touch
2. a pat

AnagramsEdit

• pâte, pâté
• péta

Further readingEdit

• “tape” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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GuaraníEdit

NounEdit

tape

1. path
2. way
3. street

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Norwegian BokmålEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Borrowed from English tape.

NounEdit

tape m (definite singular tapen, indefinite plural taper, definite plural tapene)

1. Alternative form of teip

VerbEdit

tape (present tense taper, past tense tapa or tapet, past participle tapa or tapet)

1. Alternative form of teipe

Etymology 2Edit

From Old Norse tapa. Cognate with Danish tabe, Swedish tappa and Faroese tapa.

VerbEdit

tape (present tense taper, past tense tapte, past participle tapt)

1. to lose

Related termsEdit

• tap

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Norwegian NynorskEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Borrowed from English tape.

NounEdit

tape m (definite singular tapen, indefinite plural tapar, definite plural tapane)

1. Alternative form of teip

VerbEdit

tape (present tense tapar, past tense tapa, past participle tapa, passive infinitive tapast, present participle tapande, imperative tape/tap)

1. Alternative form of teipa

Etymology 2Edit

VerbEdit

tape (present tense tapar/taper, past tense tapa/tapte, past participle tapa/tapt, passive infinitive tapast, present participle tapande, imperative tape/tap)

1. Alternative form of tapa

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PortugueseEdit

VerbEdit

tape

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of tapar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of tapar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of tapar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of tapar

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SpanishEdit

VerbEdit

tape

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of tapar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of tapar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of tapar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of tapar.

NounEdit

tape m (plural tapes)

1. (Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico) Scotch tape, tape