tape
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Old English tæppe.
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
tape (plural tapes)
- 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.
- Magnetic or optical recording media in a roll, video tape or audio tape.
- Did you get that on tape?
- Unthinking, patterned response triggered by a particular stimulus
- Old couples sometimes will play tapes at each other during a fight.
- 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.
- (trading, from ticker tape) The series of prices at which a financial instrument trades.
- Don’t fight the tape.
- (ice hockey) The wrapping of the primary puck-handling surface of hockey stick
- His pass was right on the tape.
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Verb [edit]
tape (third-person singular simple present tapes, present participle taping, simple past and past participle taped)
- To bind with adhesive tape.
- Can you tape that together, please?
- To record, particularly onto magnetic tape.
- You shouldn’t have said that. The microphone was on and we were taping.
- (informal, passive) To understand, figure out.
- I've finally got this thing taped.
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Danish [edit]
Etymology 1 [edit]
From English tape (“adhesive tape”).
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /tɛjp/, [tˢɛjb̥]
Noun [edit]
tape c (singular definite tapen, not used in plural form)
Usage notes [edit]
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.
Synonyms [edit]
External links [edit]
Tape on the Danish Wikipedia.da.Wikipedia
Etymology 2 [edit]
From English tape (“to bind with adhesive tape”).
Pronunciation [edit]
Verb [edit]
tape (imperative tape, infinitive at tape, present tense taper, past tense tapede, past participle er/har tapet)
- tape (to bind with adhesive tape) [from 1965]
Dutch [edit]
Noun [edit]
tape m (plural tapes, diminutive tapeje)
French [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
tape f (plural tapes)
Anagrams [edit]
Guaraní [edit]
Noun [edit]
tape
Norwegian Bokmål [edit]
Etymology 1 [edit]
Borrowed from English tape.
Noun [edit]
tape m (definite singular tapen; indefinite plural taper; definite plural tapene)
- Alternative form of teip.
Verb [edit]
tape (present tense taper; past tense and past participle tapa or tapet)
- Alternative form of teipe.
Etymology 2 [edit]
From Old Norse tapa. Cognate with Danish tabe, Swedish tappa and Faroese tapa.
Verb [edit]
tape (present tense taper; past tense tapte; past participle tapt)
Norwegian Nynorsk [edit]
Etymology 1 [edit]
Borrowed from English tape.
Noun [edit]
tape m (definite singular tapen; indefinite plural tapar; definite plural tapane)
- Alternative form of teip.
Verb [edit]
tape (present tense tapar; past tense tapa; past participle tapa; passive infinitive tapast; present participle tapande; imperative tap/tape)
- Alternative form of teipa.
Etymology 2 [edit]
Verb [edit]
tape (present tense tapar/taper; past tense tape/tapte; past participle tape/tapt; passive infinitive tapast; present participle tapande; imperative tap/tape)
- Alternative form of tapa.
Spanish [edit]
Verb [edit]
tape (infinitive tapar)
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of tapar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of tapar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of tapar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of tapar.
Noun [edit]
tape m (plural tapes)
- Scotch tape, tape
- English terms derived from Old English
- English nouns
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- English verbs
- English informal terms
- Danish terms derived from English
- Danish nouns
- Danish verbs
- Dutch nouns
- French nouns
- French feminine nouns
- French countable nouns
- Guaraní nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from English
- Norwegian Bokmål nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål alternative forms
- Norwegian Bokmål verbs
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Old Norse
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from English
- Norwegian Nynorsk nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk alternative forms
- Norwegian Nynorsk verbs
- Spanish verb forms
- Spanish verb imperative forms
- Spanish verb singular forms
- Spanish verb second-person forms
- Spanish verb formal forms
- Spanish forms of verbs ending in -ar
- Spanish verb subjunctive forms
- Spanish verb first-person forms
- Spanish verb present forms
- Spanish verb third-person forms
- Spanish nouns
