Word Finder - tape

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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.

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To bind with adhesive tape.

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Be sure to tape your parcel securely before posting it.

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To record, particularly onto magnetic tape.

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You shouldn’t have said that. The microphone was on and we were taping.

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(passive) To understand, figure out.

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I've finally got this thing taped.

I have a tape of the entire debate.

By the time the tape stopped both Martha and Betsy were in tears.

I had him tied up pretty good—with the tape recording and all.

Place a tape recorder approximately where a patient would sit and run through a hypnotic induction and suggestions.

A tape was used to close the goal during the first internationals before a crossbar replaced it in 1875.

An Austrian retailer used the name Walkman for portable tape recorders not produced by Sony.

I use a tape recorder much more to record lectures.

The CD sounds like a tape recording made many decades ago.

A stereo pair of analog tape inputs (RCA pin jacks) is also provided.

Plug a tape recorder into the headphone jack of the computer with a double plug cord.

At the moment, such archives are created on tape, or huge, expensive optical jukeboxes.

The lost tape contained the names of 887 children, the majority of whom will be entering kindergarten.

Perversely in 1988 I didn't choose to buy or even scrounge a tape of the widely lauded Daydream Nation album.

If several files with the same name are on the tape, the last one overwrites all ear- lier ones.

Prepare the ' looped ' tape of three pieces of music (see below) and the pictures for the sound lotto.

This recording was mixed from the original 16-track master tape in 2004 and appears as a bonus track on this expanded CD release.

An estimation of the bulk of the calf muscle was made using a tape measure.

Measuring Instructions For an accurate measurement please use a metal tape measure and take measurements in centimeters to the nearest 0.1cm.

Some of the beds appear to be carefully crafted miniatures; others are blocky objects made from cardboard and masking tape.

They advised the purchase of a few sanitary napkins to tape to your knees and were handing out gloves to anyone who wanted them.

It is backed up nightly, and can be restored from tape on request.

Lateral - with the tape pulling the patella to the lateral side of the knee.

The first group got highly agitated in response to tape playback.

For those students who do not possess a tape playback machine there are several freely available in the learning resource room.

A low cost, short term to double glazing in the winter is to tape polythene across window frames.

All we ' ad for secondary storage was a paper tape puncher left over from the Crimean war.

On the way out, I was given a tape of the thing being manipulated by a professional movie puppeteer.

Then after the tape has been stolen Jenna gives us some hardcore gangster rap, at which point we vacate the lab.

Poor Mini Circa late 1960s - Portable reel to reel tape recorder.

A simple voice activated tape recorder like the one above can be purchased from any high street retailer for less than £ 25.00.

Keith had just bought an antiquated portable reel-to-reel tape recorder to make recordings of the events he attended.

Farmers suffer too, exploited by supermarkets, overwhelmed by red tape and fighting unfair competition from abroad.

Business is bound and gagged by red tape, increasingly unable to compete with international rivals.

Politicians are always promising to cut red tape, without ever getting specific.

In the words of Stephen Byers, this was to help British businesses avoid unnecessary expenditure and to reduce red tape.

In the News 18 March 2002 The British Chamber of Commerce says that red tape costs businesses more than £ 15bn since 1997.

Business trips will be more productive than trying to fight the red tape facing you.

The retention of the escrow account signals continued delays and bureaucratic red tape that will hamper the functioning of the economy.

So the vision of the UK saying No to Europe would lead to new costs and extra red tape.

However, I fear that the burden of too much red tape might force our universities into constructing more limited programs.

Copy the tape immediately, cleaning heads, capstan and pinch rollers of the tape machine after each copy.

Marks are made on hemp ropes with tape which correspond to a known height of a flown item.

Make badges by sticking safety pins to the back of the cut-outs with sticky tape Decorate your windows, doors, or room generally!

Eliminate tape noise when mixing from multitrack, or to cut out noise from digital samplers and keyboards.

But these pubs are under threat from the twin scourges of red tape and rising costs.

Adding a bead of clear silicone sealant on the top edge of the tape would add braces to the belt.

The bag should be sealed, using tape or heat sealer.

To hear snippets from each tape, click on the title image.

The backup video player pondered it and then spewed bits of tape about and gave up even more finally.

Once they'd recorded those we made tape loops of certain sections, then spliced the whole thing together.