Definition of "tape" in Anglais

noun

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.
- I sealed up the box with clear shipping tape.
Thin and flat paper, plastic or similar flexible material, usually produced in the form of a roll.
- We made some decorative flowers out of the tape we bought.
Finishing tape, stretched across a track to mark the end of a race.
- Jones broke the tape in 47.77 seconds, a new world record.
Magnetic or optical recording media in a roll; videotape or audio tape.
- Did you get that on tape?
(informal, by extension) Any video or audio recording, regardless of the method used to produce it.
(informal) An unthinking, patterned response triggered by a particular stimulus.
- Old couples will sometimes play tapes at each other during a fight.
(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 a hockey stick.
- His pass was right on the tape.
(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.)
- white tape, Holland tape, blue tape (gin); red tape (brandy or wine)
- Madam Gin has been christened by as many names as a German princess : every petty chandler's shop will sell you Sky-blue, and every night-cellar furnish you with Holland tape, three yards a penny. Nor can I see the difference […]
Clipping of red tape (“time-consuming bureaucratic procedures”).

verb

To bind with adhesive tape.
- Be sure to tape your parcel securely before posting it.
To record, originally onto magnetic tape.
- You shouldn’t have said that. The microphone was on and we were taping.
(informal, passive voice) To understand, figure out.
- I've finally got this thing taped.