Word Finder - tapes

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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.

The rivers and neighbouring seas seem to be well stocked with fish, and especial mention must be made of the turtles, flying-fish, and brilliant I coral-fish which swarm in the waters warmed by the Kurosiwo current, the gulf-stream of the Pacific. Shell-fish form an important article of diet to both the Chinese and the aborigines along the coast - a species of Cyrena, a species of Tapes, Cytheraea petechiana and Modiola teres being most abundant.

The best known and most frequent forms are the asari (Tapes philippinarum), the hamaguri (Meretrix lusoria), the baka (Mactra sulcataria), the aka-gai (Scapharca inflata), the kaki (oyster), the awabi (Haliotis japonica), the sazae (Turbo cornutus), the hora-gai (Trilonium tritonius), &c. Among the cephalopods several are of great value as articles of food, e.g.

Cloth, drugget, cotton, leather, gloves and tapes are also made.

The sheets were laid in from eight different feed-boards, placed horizontally, and they passed through tapes, when they were seized by another series of tapes and then turned sideways between their corresponding impression and type cylinder, thus obtaining sheets printed on one side only.

The sheets were severed by knives placed on the cylinders, and when cut were carried by grippers and tapes; and delivery was made by means of automatic metal fingers fixed upon endless belts at such distances apart as to seize each sheet in succession as it left the last printing cylinder.

This is performed by carrying them over a series of smaller cylinders or drums by means of tapes.

The sheet is laid to its mark and is conveyed round an entry drum; thence it is carried round the first impression cylinder, and under this, moving at the same speed as the cylinder, is the type bed containing the inner of broad tapes which lie on the laying-on board and are fastened to a small drum underneath it.

This drum has a series of small cogs which move the web or tapes in the same direction.

The sheet is laid to a back mark on the tapes, and is propelled between two rollers s FIG.

The web arrangement consists of a series the high over-feedboard, and the taking-off apparatus is automatic but on a different plan from that of the ordinary Wharfedale, the sheets being carried over tapes with the freshly-printed side uppermost, thus preventing smearing; they are then carried on to the heap or pile by the frame or long arms placed at the end of the machine.

The sheets were severed after printing, brought up by tapes, and carried down to a sheet flyer, which moved backwards and forwards, and the sheets were alternately " flown " into the hands of two boys seated opposite each other on either side of the flyers.

Fred had recently discovered the library rent­ed audio tapes of mystery stories.

Nothing from the original tapes was omitted; one or two quick fades were done to make cuts less abrupt.

Pressure-sensitive adhesives are used on tapes or sheet material, sometimes with a nonstick backing paper.

When we record we use the old analog 24 track tapes and try to keep everything analog.

Heavy duty and anti static aprons are manufactured with eyelets at waist and neck height to take tying tapes (supplied ).

Users with autoloaders or tape libraries can now fully automate backups by creating any number of media pools using barcoded tapes.

Identify the correct order in which the tapes are used to restore backups.

Operations staff will be responsible for taking regular filestore backups and for placing backup tapes in a fire safe.

A full range of accessories is available from roll storage carts to roll bags and straps, floor tapes and ballet barres.

Automated and Customized billing AUTOMATION DBA offers a facility for automated billing which allows bills to be submitted on magnetic tapes or diskettes.

Les has also made TV & radio broadcasts, tapes & CD's.

You can connect an 8mm camcorder to a television to view tapes and you can make copies of your film using a video recorder.

One way is to use analog technology - compact cassette or VHS tapes.

Paper records are shredded beyond practicable reconstruction; tapes are completely degaussed and then disposed of in compliance with local environmental regulations.

We came back with some great tapes which are probably gathering dust on a library shelf.

Erica returns to work and, upon finding out about the confiscated tapes, orders everything returned to the women.

The absence of Hamill meant heat fourteen only had three riders line-up at tapes.

Mads Korneliussen broke the tapes at the first time of asking, incurring a 15-metre handicap.

Normal (or ferric) tapes should be chosen from reputable manufacturers such as BASF, TDK, Maxell or Agfa.

I spent three days listening to the quarter inch master tapes.

Trager writes in the introduction that " unreleased outtakes " and " unreleased material from The Basement Tapes are not included.

He cites a method of baking the tapes in a convection oven for eight hours at 130 degrees Fahrenheit.

And, when you watch the tapes, there are also visual palimpsests.

And the tapes, if they turn out to be unheard material, could be almost priceless.

Recent tapes in my possession of that band in rehearsal bear witness to a newly reborn power and confidence in his playing.

Note that storytelling tapes need truly talented readers and really good stories, not TV spinoffs.

Students who locate audio tapes or CDs of Civil War music may select songs to enhance The Civil War American Civil War.

The means of identification on magnetic tapes is shown in the magnetic tape file specification User Guides.

What follows is a near verbatim transcript of those tapes.

A range of iron and ferrite transformer kits is available as well as tapes and adhesives suitable for use on windings.

Choose from tapes, wire markers, heatshrink tubing & labels.

Stemming from two crusty old turntables, the first remix tapes of his musical ideas were created.

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I'll lie down at once, said Natasha, and began hurriedly undressing, tugging at the tapes of her petticoat.

This was a very serious offense and we 've got to try to reconstitute what was on the tapes.

Sure enough, a cardboard box full of dusty unmarked reel-to-reel tapes were found in a cupboard behind someones desk.

With the rockabilly revival of the 1970s, tiny European reissue labels scoured the United States for master tapes.

This is the first time a complete collection has been on CD and tracks have been remastered from original tapes in the Rev-Ola style !

The artwork had been lovingly restored by original Milkshake Bruce Brand and its also been remastered from the bands original master tapes.