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Forms

1.Thin and flat paper, plastic or similar flexible material, usually produced in the form of a roll.
- We made some decorative flowers out of the tape we bought.
2.Flexible material in a roll with a sticky surface on one or both sides; adhesive tape.
- I sealed up the box with clear shipping tape.
- Hand me some tape. I need to fix a tear in this paper.
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.
- So we went around the corner, looked in the garbage, and, boom, there's about 16 of the tapes he didn't like!
- Did you get that on tape?

1.To understand, figure out.(informal)
- I've finally got this thing taped.
2.To bind with adhesive tape.
- Be sure to tape your parcel securely before posting it.
- The agent had to dead-drop the locker key to the PGU by some simple means, such as by taping it underneath a predesignated park bench, where it could be retrieved unobtrusively, usually by an officer under illegal cover.
3.To record, originally onto magnetic tape.
- You shouldn’t have said that. The microphone was on and we were taping.

Common· #1884

From Middle English tape, tappe, from Old English tæppa, tæppe (“ribbon, tape”); further origin unclear.