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Flexible material in a roll with a sticky surface on one or both sides; adhesive tape.
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Hand me some tape. I need to fix a tear in this paper.
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Thin and flat paper, plastic or similar flexible material, usually produced in the form of a roll.
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After the party there was tape all over the place.
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Finishing tape, stretched across a track to mark the end of a race.
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Jones broke the tape in 47.77 seconds, a new world record.
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Magnetic or optical recording media in a roll; videotape or audio tape.
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Did you get that on tape?
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(by extension) Any video or audio recording, regardless of the method used to produce it.
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An unthinking, patterned response triggered by a particular stimulus.
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Old couples will sometimes play tapes at each other during a fight.
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(from ticker tape) The series of prices at which a financial instrument trades.
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Don’t fight the tape.
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The wrapping of the primary puck-handling surface of a hockey stick
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His pass was right on the tape.
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A strong flexible band rotating on pulleys for directing the sheets in a printing machine.