tape : Idioms & Phrases

• noun tape coated with adhesive
  

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• noun a cassette that contains magnetic tape
  

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• noun transparent or semitransparent adhesive tape (trade names Scotch tape and Sellotape) used for sealing or attaching or mending
  Sellotape; cellulose tape.
  

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• noun a wide silvery adhesive tape intended to seal joints in sheet metal duct work but having many other uses
  
  • duct tape holds the world together

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• noun a water-resistant adhesive tape used to insulate exposed electrical conductors
  friction tape.
  

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• noun a water-resistant adhesive tape used to insulate exposed electrical conductors
  friction tape.
  

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• 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
  mag tape; tape.
  
  • he took along a dozen tapes to record the interview

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• 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
  mag tape; tape.
  
  • he took along a dozen tapes to record the interview

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• noun adhesive tape used to cover the part of a surface that should not be painted
  masking paper.
  

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• noun a long narrow strip of paper
  

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• noun needlessly time-consuming procedure
  bureaucratic procedure.
  

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• the tape used in public offices for tying up documents, etc.; hence, official formality and delay. excessive bureaucratic paperwork

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Red"-tape` adjective

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1. Pertaining to, or characterized by, official formality. See Red tape, under Red, a.

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• noun transparent or semitransparent adhesive tape (trade names Scotch tape and Sellotape) used for sealing or attaching or mending
  Sellotape; cellulose tape.
  
• verb fasten or attach with sellotape
  sellotape.
  
  • The hotel manager scotch taped a note to the guest's door

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• noun a cartridge containing magnetic tape; for use with audio or video recorders or computer systems
  

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• noun electronic equipment for making or playing magnetic tapes (but without amplifiers or speakers); a component in an audio system
  

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• noun a mechanism that transports magnetic tape across the read/write heads of a tape playback/recorder
  transport; tape drive.
  

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• noun submerged aquatic plant with ribbonlike leaves; Old World and Australia
  Vallisneria spiralis; eelgrass; wild celery.
  

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• (Bot.), a plant (Vallisneria spiralis) with long ribbonlike leaves, growing in fresh or brackish water; called also fresh-water eelgrass, and, in Maryland, wild celery.

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• noun a magnetic recorder using magnetic tape
  tape machine.
  

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• noun measuring instrument consisting of a narrow strip (cloth or metal) marked in inches or centimeters and used for measuring lengths
  tape; tapeline.
  
  • the carpenter should have used his tape measure

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• . See Bodkin, n., 4.

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• noun electronic equipment for playing back magnetic tapes
  

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• verb record with a tape recorder
  tape record.
  

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• noun a magnetic recorder using magnetic tape
  tape machine.
  

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• noun a recording made on magnetic tape
  tape; taping.
  
  • the several recordings were combined on a master tape
• verb record with a tape recorder
  tape record.
  

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• noun a mechanism that transports magnetic tape across the read/write heads of a tape playback/recorder
  transport; tape drive.
  

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• adjective satellite recorded on tape
  taped.
  

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• noun a continuous thin ribbon of paper on which stock quotes are written
  

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• Tape from or designed to be used in a stock ticker, usu. of paper and being narrow but long.

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• A parade to honor a person, held in New York City, during which people in the tall buildings of Manhattan throw large quantities of paper, confetti, paper ribbons, or the like onto the parading group. The name comes form the ticker tape originally thrown onto the parade when it passed stockbrokers' offices in lower Manhattan, before stock tickers became obsolete.

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