tape
English
/teɪ̯p/
noun
Definitions
- Flexible material in a roll with a sticky surface on one or both sides; adhesive tape.
- Thin and flat paper, plastic or similar flexible material, usually produced in the form of a roll.
- Finishing tape, stretched across a track to mark the end of a race.
- Magnetic or optical recording media in a roll; videotape or audio tape.
- (informal) Any video or audio recording, regardless of the method used to produce it.
- (informal) An unthinking, patterned response triggered by a particular stimulus.
- (trading) The series of prices at which a financial instrument trades.
- (ice hockey) The wrapping of the primary puck-handling surface of a hockey stick
- (printing) A strong flexible band rotating on pulleys for directing the sheets in a printing machine.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English tape inherited from Old English tæppa (stopper).
Origin
Old English
tæppa
Gloss
stopper
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- audio English
- audiotape English
- ball English
- cellophane English
- corresponding English
- cover English
- covertape English
- duck English
- duck tape English
- fish English
- fish tape English
- fuck English
- fucktape English
- grass English
- holotape English
- line English
- microtape English
- mix English
- mixtape English
- name English
- nametape English
- nontape English
- pretape English
- retape English
- screw English
- screwtape English
- script English
- sellotape English
- tail English
- tape ball English
- tape tree English
- tapeable English
- tapegrass English
- tapeless English
- tapelike English
- tapeline English
- tapescript English
- tapespondent English
- tapesponding English
- tapetail English
- tapeworm English
- tapezine English
- tapist English
- tree English
- untape English
- video English
- videotape English
- videotaper English
- worm English
- zine English
- videotape Italian
- geluidstape Dutch, Flemish
- tape Dutch, Flemish
- tape Norwegian Bokmål
- teip Norwegian Bokmål
- teipe Norwegian Bokmål
- *dab- Proto-Germanic
- *tappô Proto-Germanic
- eltejp Swedish
- tejp Swedish
- セロハンテープ Japanese
- テープ Japanese
- ビデオテープ Japanese
- tape Norwegian Nynorsk
- teip Norwegian Nynorsk
- tæppa Old English
- tæppere Old English
- tæppestre Old English
- tæppian Old English
- tape Middle English
- tapp Middle English
- tappe Middle English
- buntéip Irish
- clostéip Irish
- fístéip Irish
- teilitéip Irish
- téip Irish
- tape Danish
- เทป Thai
- selotip Indonesian
- tâp Welsh
- tâp selo Welsh
- tappen Middle Low German
- tepe Swahili
- 비디오테이프 Korean
- 테이프 Korean
- *tappōn Frankish
- ཊེབ Tibetan
- ཊེབ་ཐག Tibetan
- tef Hausa
- mix
- tree
- zine
- worm
- name
- fuck
- tail
- duck
- ball
- fish
- line
- grass
- screw
- video
- audio
- cover
- script
- retape
- untape
- tapist
- pretape
- mixtape
- nontape
- tapeline
- fucktape
- tapeless
- tapelike
- tapeworm
- tapetail
- nametape
- tapezine
- tapeable
- holotape
- audiotape
- fish tape
- tape ball
- duck tape
- screwtape
- tapegrass
- sellotape
- videotape
- tape tree
- covertape
- microtape
- videotaper
- cellophane
- tapescript
- tapespondent
- tapesponding
- corresponding