tapes

noun

Flexible material in a roll with a sticky surface on one or both sides; adhesive tape.

Magnetic or optical recording media in a roll; videotape or audio tape.

(informal, by extension) Any video or audio recording, regardless of the method used to produce it.

Thin and flat paper, plastic or similar flexible material, usually produced in the form of a roll.

Finishing tape, stretched across a track to mark the end of a race.

(trading, from ticker tape) The series of prices at which a financial instrument trades.

(ice hockey) The wrapping of the primary puck-handling surface of a hockey stick.

(informal) An unthinking, patterned response triggered by a particular stimulus.

Clipping of red tape (“time-consuming bureaucratic procedures”). [The binding tape once used for holding important documents together.]

(printing, historical) A strong flexible band rotating on pulleys for directing the sheets in a printing machine.

(possible, obsolete, UK, slang) Liquor, alcoholic drink, especially gin or brandy. (Especially in prison slang or among domestic servants and women.)

verb

To bind with adhesive tape.

To record, originally onto magnetic tape.

(informal, passive voice) To understand, figure out.

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