Definitions for Tape

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Tape tape

Spelling: [teyp]

IPA: /teɪp/

Tape is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 38 anagrams from letters in Tape (aept).

Definitions for Tape

noun

1. a long, narrow strip of linen, cotton, or the like, used for tying garments, binding seams or carpets, etc.
2. a long, narrow strip of paper, metal, etc.
3. a strip of cloth, paper, or plastic with an adhesive surface, used for sealing, binding, or attaching items together; adhesive tape or masking tape.
4. tape measure.
5. a string stretched across the finishing line in a race and broken by the winning contestant on crossing the line.
6. ticker tape.
7. magnetic tape.
8. a magnetic tape carrying prerecorded sound:

verb (used with object)

1. to furnish with a tape or tapes.
2. to tie up, bind, or attach with tape.
3. to measure with or as if with a tape measure.
4. to record or prerecord on magnetic tape.

verb (used without object)

1. to record something on magnetic tape.

Origin of Tape

before 1000; Middle English; unexplained variant of tappe, Old English tæppe strip (of cloth), literally, part torn off; akin to Middle Low German teppen to tear, pluck

Examples for Tape

My agent at the time sent that tape to SNL and then they asked me to come in for an audition.

Well, because casinos have cameras everywhere, turns out there was indeed a tape.

I watched Garner die on tape and wondered why I was crying so hard when I am not that much of a cryer at all.

The tape is first folded and creased by rubbing over an edge.

Roll the meat up as tight as possible, and bind it round with a cloth and tape; then boil it gently for seven or eight hours.

When Roger first heard what happened and saw the tape he was shocked, truly shocked, and outraged.

I stood with a tape recorder, listening to men denounce the liberal media controlled by Jews.

Roll the meat of the feet up in the pork, tie it up in a cloth with tape round it, and boil it till it becomes very tender.

When quite tender take off the tape, lay the meat on a dish, strain the gravy over it, and serve it up with currant jelly.

But it was not around their uncle that the tape measure went, it was around Bob!