tapen.1
/teɪp/, U.S. /teɪp/ 1.
a. A narrow woven strip of stout linen, cotton, silk, or other textile, used as a string for tying garments, and for other purposes for which flat strings are suited, also for measuring lines, etc.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > of specific size > narrow > tape
tapec1000
c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 107/33 Tenia, tæppan (pl.), uel dolsmeltas.
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Miller's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 55 The tapes of hir white voluper Were of the same sute of hir coler.
c1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 655/15 Hec tenea, tappe.
1519 in W. L. Nash Churchwardens' Acct. Bk. St. Giles, Reading (1851) 5 For tapis for iijo Amys id ob.
1574 J. Baret Aluearie T 49 A Tape, to knitte the apron, &c. about with.
1690 London Gaz. No. 2529/4 Lost.., a black Box..tied about with a white Tape.
1805 Trans. Soc. Arts 23 119 A measuring tape..having inches on one side.
1833 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal II. 225 When the rollers revolve, the motion of the tapes carry the sheet of paper with them, and deliver it over another roller,..where it is taken up by two sets of endless tapes.
1879 J. Grant in Cassell's Techn. Educator IV. 270/1 A partner in the manufactory of inkles and tapes.
b. Without article, as name of the material or substance. Also figurative: see red tape n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > of specific size > narrow > tape > collectively
strip1459
tape1537
tapery1657
1537–8 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 378 Paid for silke tape iijs iiijd.
1546 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 184 For viij yardes and a half of tape.
1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler vii. 158 A convenient quantitie of tape or filiting. View more context for this quotation
1714 J. Gay Shepherd's Week i. 37 This pouch, that's ty'd with tape of reddest hue.
1856 C. Reade It is never too Late II. v. 103 Twenty years gone in tape and circumlocution.
1898 J. Berwick Philos. Romance iv. 46 Reams of blue paper tied with pink tape.
c. A piece of tape suspended across the course at the finishing point in a race, or (formerly) between the goalposts in Association football; in Horse Racing, a tape or set of tapes suspended across the course at the starting-point of a race; also figurative. Also in phrases (literal and figurative): to breast the tape, to reach the finishing-line in a race; on the tape, at the very end of a race.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > [noun] > starting or finishing mark > finishing mark
marklOE
glovec1380
goal1531
winning-post1759
ending-post1760
goalpost1834
tape1867
the line1892
finishing-post1895
finish line1899
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > association football > [noun] > frame or tape of goal
tape1867
woodwork1960
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > American football > [noun] > scoring > field of play > specific part
tape1867
goalpost1882
end zone1916
red zone1972
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > [noun] > starting or finishing mark
base1602
post1642
race post1643
wire1871
tape1903
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > racing on foot > race on foot [verb (intransitive)] > reach finishing line
to breast the tape1903
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > [adverb] > at start or finish
at (the) post1507
on the tape1916
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > racecourse > [noun] > starting-point
starting gate1893
tape1957
1867 Routledge's Handbk. Football 54 Football Association Rules... A goal shall be won when the ball passes between the goal-posts under the tape.
1868 H. F. Wilkinson Mod. Athletics 17–18 The Goal..should consist of a piece of stout white tape tied to the post at one side..and held loosely by the judge across the course, so that when the winner passes the post he may carry the tape away.
1880 Times 12 Nov. 4/5 The ball is shot under the tape or over the bar, and the call of time immediately afterwards proclaims the game at an end.
1903 Punch 11 Feb. 103/1 Though a toughish task remains Before I breast the tape, J. Chamberlain, of Birmingham, Will round (or square) the Cape.
1916 J. B. Cooper Coo-oo-ee xvii. 270 ‘They've got me on the tape!’ he cried; ‘but I'm satisfied.’
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvi. [Eumaeus] 580 Judge of his astonishment when he finelly [sic] did breast the tape and the awful truth dawned upon him anent his better half, wrecked in his affections.
1937 ‘P. Wentworth’ Case is Closed vii. 72 He was running in his school sports, winning the hundred yards again, breasting the tape, hearing the applause break out.
1955 Times 13 Aug. 4/2 Wheeler..regained the ground he had lost and just robbed the Hungarian of victory on the tape.
1957 D. Francis Sport of Queens vi. 122 The six or seven stranded starting tapes familiar in flat racing are not used for National Hunt racing. A single strand across the course is pulled down to a catch at shoulder level, and when this is released..the tape flies up at an oblique angle.
1963 Times 21 Feb. 4/5 They were described by an official observer after the last N.E.D.C. meeting as ‘just coming up to the tapes’.
d. The tape attached to the hammer-butt in the action of an upright piano, which pulls back the hammer after striking.
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1896 A. J. Hipkins Descr. & Hist. Pianoforte 36 The special merit of Wornum's invention is the tape, which is tightened by the rise of the hammer when the key is struck.
e. Army and R.A.F. slang. A chevron indicating rank worn by a non-commissioned officer on the upper part of the coat-sleeve; a stripe (stripe n.3 2).
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society > armed hostility > military organization > insignia > [noun] > chevron or stripe
chevron1813
stripe1827
service stripe1861
hash mark1907
tape1943
rocker1944
1943 J. L. Hunt & A. G. Pringle Service Slang 64 Tapes, the stripes worn by Corporals, Sergeants, and Flight Sergeants in the R.A.F. and by Lance-Corporals or Lance-Bombardiers, Corporals or Bombardiers, and Sergeants in the Army.
1944 Gen 15 Jan. 9/2 That binder's working for his tapes.
1944 R.A.F. Jrnl. Aug. 258 I wouldn't leave this unit for three tapes.
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a. A long, narrow, thin and flexible strip of metal or the like; esp. such a strip of steel used as a measuring line in surveying.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > [noun] > strip of
strike1598
ribbon1763
tape1884
1884 Internat. Health Exhib. Official Catal. 77/2 Solid Copper Tape Lightning Conductor.
1884 Edinb. Rev. July 48 The main stem of the conductor shall consist of a copper rod or tape.
1900 H. M. Wilson Topogr. Surveying xxi. 500 The steel tape is capable of giving a precision indicated by a probable error of one 2,000,000th part of a measured line.
1900 H. M. Wilson Topogr. Surveying xxi. 500 Base measurement with steel tapes.
b. The paper strip or ribbon on which messages are printed in the receiving instrument of a recording telegraph system. Also used in computing and data processing; = paper tape n. at paper n. and adj. Compounds 2.
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society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telegraphy > [noun] > telegraphic message > ticker-tape
tape1884
ticker tape1902
society > computing and information technology > hardware > secondary storage > [noun] > punch card or tape
punched paper1860
punch card1881
punched tape1885
paper tape1890
perforated tape1890
punched card1890
master card1937
tape1945
1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 27 Dec. 5/2 This ‘tape’ is supplied by a telegraphic company, and automatically records in dozens of different offices in the City the variation of prices from hour to hour inside the House.
1888 W. Besant Fifty Years Ago 213 Now we watch the tape, day by day, and hour by hour.
1905 W. H. Preece & J. Sivewright Telegraphy 171 Punching and feeding the tape forward is performed by an electro~magnet.
1905 W. H. Preece & J. Sivewright Telegraphy 172 To produce a type-printed page from the record perforated on the tape.
1945 J. Von Neumann in B. Randell Origins Digital Computers: Sel. Papers (1973) 355 These instructions must be given in some form which the device can sense. Punched into a system of punchcards or on teletype tape, magnetically impressed on steel tape or wire, [etc.].
1948 Math. Tables & Other Aids Computation 3 8 Orders to the machine..are represented on tape by all combinations of three holes out of six.
1960 M. G. Say et al. Analogue & Digital Computers ix. 266 The only problem in fast photoelectric reading arises when the tape has to be set in motion and stopped so rapidly that [etc.].
1978 D. D. Spencer Data Processing v. 105 Data are often hand-sorted before being punched into the tape.
c. = magnetic tape n. at magnetic adj. and n. Compounds. Cf. steel tape n. (b) at steel n.1 Compounds 8.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > [noun] > tape
steel tape1900
tape1932
magnetic tape1937
audiotape1957
leader tape1960
mag tape1960
digital audio tape1978
DAT1982
DCC1990
1932 Radio Times 29 July 239/3 The Blattnerphone is an invention for recording magnetically upon steel tape.
1942 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 46 Abstr. Sci. & Technical Press 68 It consists of recording a sound pattern magnetically on steel tape. The signal is picked up from the tape at frequent split-second intervals.
1953 Newsweek 11 May 28/1 It was recorded on tape and was broadcast later that day.
1964 M. McLuhan Understanding Media xviii. 295 Tape and the l.p. record suddenly made the phonograph a means of access to all the music and speech of the world.
1982 Times 26 Oct. 15/7 Access to specific pieces of information is far faster on a compact, rapidly spinning disk than on a long ribbon of tape.
d. A length or reel of (magnetic or paper) tape; a recording on tape.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > [noun] > tape > length or reel of
tapec1946
digital audio tape2008
c1946 H. H. Goldstine & J. Von Neumann in J. Von Neumann Coll. Wks. (1961) V. 25 Both..machines are controlled by instructions punched into several tapes and they can be ordered to switch from one to the other as desired. They are usually referred to as ‘master routine’ and ‘sub~routine’ tapes.
1952 W. Stevens Let. 13 May (1967) 750 I read at Cambridge a week or two ago and apparently someone in the audience took a tape.
1956 G. A. Montgomerie Digital Calculating Machines x. 213 The instructions are punched in the tapes in a very simple notation.
1966 Listener 25 Aug. 287/2 This production came via a tape from the Holland Festival.
1977 New Yorker 22 Aug. 56/3 Most thefts of computer tapes are probably not reported to the police.
1978 D. D. Spencer Data Processing v. 105 Both the tapes and the tape-producing equipment require less space than punched cards and card-producing equipment.
1983 D. Dunnett Dolly & Bird of Paradise v. 54 Kim-Jim loved telly films... I had brought a lot of tapes with me.
e. Used in names designating (paper, transparent film, etc.) tape coated with adhesive and used for fastening packages, etc. Usually as the second element in compounds; see Scotch tape n., Sellotape n.adhesive, sticky tape: see the first element.
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1966 A. W. Lewis Gloss. Woodworking Terms 99 Tape, gummed paper strip used to hold the edges of veneer together while the glue dries.
3. slang. Spirituous liquor, esp. gin ( white tape); red tape, brandy. Cf. ribbon n. 4b.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > [noun]
water of life?c1450
burning watera1475
watera1475
aqua vitae1542
spirit1559
strong water1615
hot waters1616
spirituous liquor1659
spirit1663
fire1707
tape1725
strunt1786
hard stuff1789
firewater1799
fool's water1815
fool water1837
spirituous liquor1842
timber-doodle1842
lightning1858
1725 New Canting Dict. Tape, Red or White, Geneva, Aniseed, Clove-Water, &c. so called by Canters and Villains, and the Renters of the Tap..in Newgate, and other Prisons.
1755 Connoisseur No. 53. ⁋4 Every night-cellar [will] furnish you with Holland Tape, three yards a penny.
1830 E. Bulwer-Lytton Paul Clifford I. x. 222 Red tape those as likes it may drain.
1843 W. M. Thackeray Ravenswing vi, in Fraser's Mag. Aug. 205/2 Gin.., under the name of ‘tape’ used to be measured out pretty liberally in what was..her Majesty's prison of the Fleet.
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C1. General attributive. See also tape recorder n.
a. (In sense 1.)
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tape-length n.
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1900 H. M. Wilson Topogr. Surveying xxiii. 533 Both tapemen keep a record of the number of tape-lengths between stations.
tape-maker n.
tape-making n.
tape-moulding n.
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1863 Archaeologia Cantiana 5 14 A portion of the old tape moulding or parallel band.
tape-purl n. See purl n.1 2.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > ornamental textiles > ornamental trimmings > [noun] > bordering or edging > purl or picot
pearl1542
purl1564
picot1623
tape-purla1652
pearl-edge1824
a1652 R. Brome Queen & Concubine iv. i. 76 in Five New Playes (1659) Lol. Can you handle the Bobbins well, good Woman? Make statute-Lace? you shall have my Daughter. Pogg. And mine, to make Tape-Purles.
tape-ribbon n.
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1703 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion II. viii. 409 He commanded every Man to tye a white tape Ribban, or Handkerchief above the Elbow of their right Arme.
tape-seller n.
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1835 N. P. Willis Pencillings I. ii. 20 The Marseilles tapeseller.
tape-string n.
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1871 Figure Training 57 The ladies..prohibit all restriction of the waist except by the aid of a broad band and tape-strings.
tape-stripe n.
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1865 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia VI. xx. v. 109 These long lanes, or tape-stripes of the Torgau Forest.
tape-weaver n.
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1725 London Gaz. No. 6380/12 Robert Johnson,..Tape-weaver.
tape-work n.
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1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 208 The paper supports itself all through the machine, and the tapework is reduced to a minimum.
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tape-like adj.
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1880 R. Barwell Aneurism 6 Broad, tape-like ligatures were used.
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 838 The passage of pipe-like or tape-like motions is..due merely to the action of the sphincter.
tape-slashing adj.
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1882 Standard 7 Sept. 2/3 The enormous tape-slashing machines,..followed.
b. (In sense 2b, ‘of, or recorded by, the telegraphic tape’.)
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tape boy n.
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1969 Listener 2 Jan. 12/1 I was in the Newsroom:..where..tape boys..bore in huge foaming trays of paper strip to the duty editors.
tape-price n.
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1889 Hints to Speculators (Galba Gregory & Co.) (ed. 5) 20 Deal at tape prices.
1895 Daily News 14 June 5/2 The machines set up in the offices record the prices on the familiar strips of paper from which the name of ‘tape prices’ is taken.
1903 Q. Rev. Jan. 106 Tape-prices do not represent actual transactions.
tape-report n.
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1901 Westm. Gaz. 20 June 6/3 The ‘tape’ report..said there was no opposition to the Charing Cross, Euston, and Hampstead Railway scheme.
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tape-system n.
(b)
tape-printing adj.
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1903 Westm. Gaz. 25 Aug. 2/3 The fee charged for maintaining and superintending the tape-printing telegraph machine which supplies the Peers with news in the Prince's Chamber.
c. (In senses 2c, 1e.)
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tape editing n. and adj.
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1961 Times 17 Apr. 3/1 Knowledge of radio-production and tape-editing.
1973 G. Talbot Ten Seconds from Now xix. 239 A wonderland of recording rooms and tape-editing suites.
tape editor n.
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1959 ‘F. Newton’ Jazz Scene x. 169 Recording supervisors, sound engineers and tape editors.
tape eraser n.
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1958 Oxf. Mail 27 Aug. (Suppl.) 4/6 (advt.) The..tape eraser will erase the contents of a spool of tape of any size up to ten inches at one operation.
tape head n. [head n.1 16f(b)]
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1960 Pract. Wireless 36 401/2 (advt.) Luxury model with press-button inputs to suit any pick-up or tuner and most tape-heads.
1980 Sunday Times 24 Aug. 14/7 Magnetic patterns on the tape are translated by a tape-head into electrical impulses.
tape speed n.
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1954 Gramophone Record Rev. Jan. 139/1 With a tape speed of 7½ ins. per second the capstan thus makes about 80 revolutions per second.
tape splicing adj.
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1956 Language 32 281 These experiments served as a test for two tape-splicing techniques.
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tape-controlled adj.
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1962 Gloss. Terms Automatic Data Processing (B.S.I.) 98 Tape-controlled carriage.
tape-playing adj.
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1962 Times 5 July 15/6 Tape-playing equipment to the value of some £160 altogether was being used.
d. (In sense 2e.)
tape dispenser n.
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1975 New Yorker 10 Mar. 31/1 An automatic tape dispenser.
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tape-bound adj. bound with tape; = tape-tied adj.
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society > authority > office > [adjective] > bureaucratic
functionary1668
bureaucratic1800
tape-tying1832
bureaucrat1849
red-tapish1850
red-tapey1860
tape-bound1900
tape-tied1900
striped-trouser(ed)1934
the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [adjective] > inflexible
ironOE
stour1303
strange1338
unmovablea1382
inflexible1398
stoutc1410
unpliablea1425
intreatable1509
stiff1526
stiff-necked1526
unpliant1547
stout-hearted1552
inexorable1553
obstinate1559
strait-laced1560
impersuasible1576
unflexiblea1586
hard-edged1589
adamantive1594
unyielding1594
adder-deaf1597
steeled1600
irrefragable1601
rigid1606
unpersuadable1607
imployable1613
unswayablea1616
uncompellable1623
inflexive?1624
over-rigid1632
unlimbera1639
seta1640
incomplying1640
uncomplying1643
stiff-girt1659
impersuadable1680
unbendinga1688
impracticable1713
unblendable1716
stiff-rumped1728
unconvinciblea1747
uncompounding1782
unplastic1787
unbending1796
adamant1816
uneasy1819
uncompromising1828
cast iron1829
hard-hitting1831
rigoristic1844
ramrod1850
pincé1858
anchylosed1860
unbendable1884
tape-bound1900
tape-tied1900
hard line1903
tough1905
absolutist1907
hard-arsed1942
go-for-broke1946
hardcore1951
hard-arse1966
hard-ass1967
hardball1974
1900 Westm. Gaz. 5 July 5/2 Should the tape-bound authorities in Pall Mall blankly refuse to equip..the 320 extra men.
tape-carrier n. a frame in which a tape sprinkled with powdered corundum is mounted as a cutting or filing instrument.
tape cartridge n. = tape cassette n. (see also quot. 1983).
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > [noun] > tape > closed container of
cartridge1960
cassette1960
tape cartridge1961
audio cassette1971
tape cassette1972
digital compact cassette1983
1961 High Fidelity Trade News Sept. 55/3 Foley Electronics offers..an automatic tape cartridge playback unit employing the endless loop principle.
1972 Observer 22 Oct. (Colour Suppl.) 53/2 Tape cartridges are plentiful, even if cassette material is strangely lagging.
1983 D. H. Sandars Computers Today vi. 159 (caption) Magnetic tape cartridges are used in minicomputers and data entry stations. This tape is ¼ inch wide and varies from 140 to 450 feet in length... Magnetic tape cassettes are used in microcomputers and data entry stations. This tape is either 150 or 300 feet long.
tape cassette n. = cassette n. d.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > [noun] > tape > closed container of
cartridge1960
cassette1960
tape cartridge1961
audio cassette1971
tape cassette1972
digital compact cassette1983
1972 G. V. Higgins Friends Eddie Coyle xv. 88 He opened the glove compartment and removed a tape cassette.
1983Tape cassette [see tape cartridge n.]. tape-check n. Music in an upright pianoforte, a type of check (check n.1 10d) developed by Robert Wornum (1780–1852) and incorporating a tape; also attributive in tape-check action.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > stringed keyboards > [noun] > pianoforte > hammer > device for holding it after striking
key-check1855
check1879
tape-check1929
1929 Evening News 18 Nov. 2/6 Pianette... Iron frame. Tape check action.
1954 Grove's Dict. Music (ed. 5) VI. 739/1 We must now turn our attention to an action known as the ‘tape-check’.
1966 W. L. Sumner Pianoforte iii. 66 A later model anticipated the tape-check action, which prevented the hammer from giving unwanted repetition.
tape deck n. (see deck n.1 3f).
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > sound recording or reproducing equipment > [noun] > using tape > part of
recording head1889
pinch wheel1898
capstan1948
deck1949
pinch roller1949
tape deck1949
pinch roll1953
stacked head1954
tape transport1954
1949 Electronic Engin. 21 149/3 At present the ‘Tapedeck’ recorder is available to manufacturers only who will fit the recorder into their own amplifying equipment.
1967 Oxf. Computer Explained 7 A new configuration..consisting of twelve 30 kc tape decks, a high speed printer, a paper-tape reader, and a monitor printer.
1977 ‘E. Crispin’ Glimpses of Moon xii. 242 His stereo tape-deck only a few seconds away from the enormous climax of Also Sprach Zarathustra.
tape-delay n. the use of a tape recorder to introduce an interval between recording and playing back or transmitting (cf. delay n. 3).
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > [noun] > use of tape recorder to introduce interval
tape-delay1968
1968 Listener 12 Dec. 802/3 The music dissolves again, surmounted by quiet seagull sounds produced by high squeaks of feed back multiplied by means of tape-delay.
1982 Listener 18 Aug. 27/1 The catalyst which sets Clocks and Clouds in motion is the gradual de-synchronisation of identical melodic patterns—the classic ‘tape-delay’ device of electronic music.
tape drive n. a tape transport or tape deck for use in computing.
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society > computing and information technology > hardware > secondary storage > [noun] > magnetic > tape drive
tape drive1952
microdrive1982
1952 Proc. Electronic Computer Symp., Los Angeles (IRE Prof. Group Electronic Computers) 4 (heading) Survey of tape drive systems.
1978 J. McNeil Consultant x. 114 The computers..showed little signs of life beyond the occasional twitch from the tape drives.
1983 D. H. Sandars Computers Today vi. 163 Before the data on a magnetic tape can be processed by a computer, the tape must be placed in a machine called a tape drive or tape transport.
tape-fish n. an eel-like fish having a flat elongated body, a ribbonfish.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > [noun] > order Lampridiformes > member of genus Cepola (ribbon-fish)
shelp1553
swathe-fish1668
riband fish1751
serpent-fish1753
snake-fish1796
ribbonfish1798
red snakefish1823
red bandfish1828
band-fish1836
red ribbon fish1838
onion-fish1854
red ribbon1858
tape-fish1885
the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > [noun] > order Lampridiformes > member of family Regalecidae (oar-fish)
shelp1553
swathe-fish1668
riband fish1751
ribbonfish1798
sea-serpent1851
oarfish1860
tape-fish1885
paddlefish1953
1885 C. F. Holder Marvels Animal Life 101 The band or tape-fishes, from their snake-like appearance, are first worthy of notice.
tape-fuse n. a ribbon-like fuse, very rapid in action.
tape-grass n. an aquatic herb, Vallisneria spiralis, with narrow grass-like leaves.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > reedy or aquatic grasses > [noun] > other aquatic grasses
reed-grass1597
marram1640
reed meadow grass1772
eel-grass1790
buttongrass1814
cutting grass1831
sea hard-grass1843
sea sand-reed1856
tape-grass1857
spinifex1877
surf-grass1923
1857 A. Gray First Lessons Bot. (1866) 167 This may be..seen..in the leaves of the Freshwater Tape-Grass (Vallisneria), under a good microscope.
tape guipure n. Lace-making (see quots. 1865, 1881).
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > consisting of loops or looped stitches > lace > other types of
masclea1425
pomet1582
loop-lace1632
colbertinea1685
coxcomb1693
trolly-lolly1693
trolly1699
piece lace1702
mignonette1751
web lace1795
guard-lace1804
Antwerp lace1811
warp-lace1812
cardinal lace1842
guipure1843
run lace1843
Shetland lace1848
lacis1865
pot lace1865
reticella1865
tape guipure1865
quadrille1884
reticello1895
tambour-lace1899
rosaline1900
ring net1901
tracing-lace1901
shadow lace1914
1865 F. B. Palliser Hist. Lace iii. 35 In that class called by the lace-makers ‘tape guipure’, the outline of the flowers is formed by a pillow or hand-made braid about the eighth of an inch in width, the middle filled in with the needle.
1881 C. C. Harrison Woman's Handiwork Mod. Homes i. 94 Tape-guipure, made of linen tape twisted and folded into a pattern, held together with bars and then filled in and enriched with needlework.
1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward Dict. Needlework 246/2 An embroidery worked in imitation of the Tape Guipure Laces.
tape hiss n. extraneous high-frequency background noise during the playing of a tape recording.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > sibilant sound > [noun] > on recording
scratch1908
surface noise1914
swish1949
sibilance1960
tape hiss1962
1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio ii. 38 There may be tape hiss due to setting the gain too low.
1977 Gramophone Oct. 638/2 The tape hiss seems now to be higher too.
tape-line n. a line of tape; spec. a strip of linen or steel marked with subdivisions of the foot or metre, sometimes coiling in a cylindrical case with a winch or spring.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measuring instrument > [noun] > for measuring length > measuring tape
measuring tape1805
tape-line1847
tape measure1873
inch-tape1884
steel tape1900
1847 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Tapeline.
1858 in P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products
1893 F. C. Selous Trav. S.-E. Afr. 91 A few measurements..taken on the spot with a tape-line.
tape loop n. = loop n.1 4k.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > [noun] > tape > length or reel of > with joined ends
tape loop1962
1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio 258 A tape loop may be used (a) to provide a repeated sound structure or rhythm (in radiophonics), (b) for an ‘atmosphere’ track where this is regular in quality, (c) in tape delay techniques.
1976 W. H. Canaway Willow-pattern War xx. 199 The signal would be going out from a tape-loop.
tape-machine n. (a) the receiving instrument of a recording telegraph system, in which the message is printed on a paper tape; (b) = tape-sizing machine ( Cent. Dict., Supp. 1909).
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society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telegraphy > telegraph > [noun] > types of > recording telegraphs
telegraph register1845
Morse1867
recorder1867
nicker1871
ink-writer1876
inker1882
ticker1883
news ticker1887
tape-machine1891
synchronograph1897
tape-ticker1904
undulator1910
reperforator1913
1891 Daily News 9 Apr. 7/1 Some twenty or thirty men, who were crowding round a ‘tape machine’..waiting for the result of the second race of the day to come through.
tape-man n. in Surveying, each of the two men who measure with the tape-line.
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the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > surveying > [noun] > surveyor > using specific instruments
leveller1834
scaler1840
transit man1857
plane-tabler1878
tape-man1900
1900 H. M. Wilson Topogr. Surveying xxiv. 532 The tapemen measure the distance with the steel tape, which is stretched by a twenty-pound tension on the front end by the fore tapeman with a spring-balance.
tape measure n. a measuring line of prepared tape, marked with feet and inches, etc., esp. one of five or six feet long used by tailors, dressmakers, etc.; also as v. transitive, to measure with a tape measure.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measuring instrument > [noun] > for measuring length > measuring tape
measuring tape1805
tape-line1847
tape measure1873
inch-tape1884
steel tape1900
the world > relative properties > measurement > measuring instrument > measure by or as an instrument [verb (transitive)] > measure by means of instruments > using a tape measure
tape measure1873
1873 Young Englishwoman Mar. 151/2 Pin your tape-measure down on one of the fronts.
1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Tape-measure.
1907 Westm. Gaz. 20 Mar. 10/1 As tested by the tape-measure..the..giantess might make an excellent claim to be the ‘greatest’ woman who has ever lived.
1962 L. Deighton Ipcress File xxv. 158 Birth marks..were photographed and tape measured.
1971 R. Laver & B. Collins Educ. Tennis Player i. 19 Dave Anderson..tape-measured me..and reported that my left forearm is twelve inches around.
tape measurement n.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > [noun] > measurement by tape
tape measurement1922
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 502 Tape measurements will be taken next your skin.
tape-needle n. an eyed bodkin for inserting tape.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > [noun] > trimming > inserting > bodkin for
bodkin1714
tape-needle1852
1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin (U.K. ed.) xv I'll look your box over.—Thimble, wax,..scissors, knife, tape-needle; all right.
1880 L. S. Floyer Plain Hints Examiners Needlework 68 Tape-needle is generally used in the North of England instead of this word [bodkin]—and..would be better if more generally used, to describe what it really is, a needle to run a piece of tape into a hem, or caseing.
tape player n. a machine for playing (cassette) tape recordings; cf. record player n.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > sound recording or reproducing equipment > [noun] > cassette-player
tape player1961
cassette player1968
radio cassette1972
Walkman1980
1961 High Fidelity Trade News Sept. 55/3 (heading) Foley presents ‘endless loop’ tape player.
1977 New Yorker 24 Oct. 112/3 Such misdeeds as..having a tape player on too loud.
tape-primer n. an obsolete primer for firearms, consisting of a flexible paper or other band containing small fulminating charges at equal distances.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > equipment for use with firearms > [noun] > touch-paper or tape-primer
touchpaper1724
tape-primer1877
1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. 2495/2 The tape-primer required a peculiar lock, having a recess for containing the tape and mechanism for advancing each primer successively to the nipple.
tape punch n. Computing a device which punches holes in paper tape in patterns that represent coded information.
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society > computing and information technology > hardware > secondary storage > [noun] > punch card or tape > punching device
hand punch1803
keypunch1903
summary punch1934
tape punch1947
keypuncher1965
1947Tape punch [see tape reader n.].
1967 A. Battersby Network Anal. (ed. 2) viii. 134 The sheets are then passed to a tape-punch operator who converts the information on them into a punched tape.
tape-punching n.
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society > computing and information technology > hardware > secondary storage > [noun] > punch card or tape > punching of holes in
field1903
keypunching1913
summary punching1935
tape-punching1951
over-punching1958
1951 M. V. Wilkes et al. Prepar. Programs for Electronic Digital Computer i. vi. 42 (heading) Tape punching and editing facilities.
tape reader n. Computing a device for sensing information recorded by sequences of holes or magnetized areas on computer tape (see reader n. 8).
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society > computing and information technology > hardware > secondary storage > [noun] > punch card or tape > processing device
reproducer1885
sorter1917
interpreter1936
verifier1940
card reader1946
reader1946
tape reader1947
collator1949
tape reproducer1961
stacker1962
tabulator1970
1947 Math. Tables & Other Aids Computation 2 355 In addition to these parts there are..a drum commutator for operating the relays, a tape reader and a tape punch.
1964 C. Dent Quantity Surv. by Computer iii. 26 The program is all ready to be read by the input tape-reader at 300 characters per second.
1972 M. Woodhouse Mama Doll x. 143 It's frequency-coded for a tape-reader.
tape reading n.
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society > computing and information technology > data > database > data entry > [noun] > types of
mark sensing1946
tape reading1970
1970 O. Dopping Computers & Data Processing xv. 237 Tape reading and tape writing can go on partly simultaneously, if the design of the computer allows it.
tape reproducer n. a machine that plays or reads tapes but does not record or punch them.
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society > computing and information technology > hardware > secondary storage > [noun] > punch card or tape > processing device
reproducer1885
sorter1917
interpreter1936
verifier1940
card reader1946
reader1946
tape reader1947
collator1949
tape reproducer1961
stacker1962
tabulator1970
1961 G. A. Briggs A to Z in Audio 169 The console includes a tape reproducer with 7½″, 15″ and 30″ speeds.
1962 Gloss. Terms Automatic Data Processing (B.S.I.) 97 Tape reproducer, a machine used to copy and edit paper tape.
1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio 246 Control cubicle (BBC), the soundproof room equipped with control desk, gramophone and tape reproducers and high quality loudspeaker.
tapescript n. [after transcript, typescript, etc.] a tape recording of the spoken word, esp. in the form of a lesson, interview, etc.; a transcript or text of this.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > a sound recording > [noun] > tape
taping1886
tape record1905
tape recording1940
audiotape1959
tapescript1961
demo tape1963
musicassette1966
DAT1982
1961 J. S. Holton et al. Sound Lang. Teaching 248 Tapescript, term used to describe the written program (exercises and instructions) that the teacher has prepared for recording a language laboratory lesson.
1969 John Edwards Mem. Foundation Q. 5 1. 10 These tapescripts..are resumés of interviews of artists.
1983 Financial Times 16 Apr. 14 It is telly docu-drama at its most truth-honouring; based on real tapescripts, speeches and official records.
tape-sizer n. a man in charge of the machine ( tape-sizing machine or tape-machine) for sizing the cotton warp threads to be used in weaving; = taper n.3
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving > other people involved with weaving
pattern-maker1787
reader1839
pattern reader1858
tackler1864
healder?1881
loomer1881
setter-up?1881
taper?1881
tuner1885
tape-sizer1891
intaker1921
1891 Labour Commission Gloss. The machine used by the taper is called the tape-sizing machine.
1897 S. Webb & B. Webb Industr. Democracy II. ii. x. 478 Tape-sizers.
tape-stretcher n. a contrivance to maintain a uniform tension of the measuring line in surveying.
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1900 H. M. Wilson Topogr. Surveying xxi. 501 Tape-stretchers.
tape-ticker n. = tape-machine n.
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society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telegraphy > telegraph > [noun] > types of > recording telegraphs
telegraph register1845
Morse1867
recorder1867
nicker1871
ink-writer1876
inker1882
ticker1883
news ticker1887
tape-machine1891
synchronograph1897
tape-ticker1904
undulator1910
reperforator1913
1904 Daily News 6 July 7 Mr. Francis E. Macmahon, inventor of the tape ticker, died very suddenly at Newmarket yesterday morning.
tape-tied adj. tied with tape; also figurative, bound by ‘red-tape’, restricted by officialism.
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society > authority > office > [adjective] > bureaucratic
functionary1668
bureaucratic1800
tape-tying1832
bureaucrat1849
red-tapish1850
red-tapey1860
tape-bound1900
tape-tied1900
striped-trouser(ed)1934
the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [adjective] > inflexible
ironOE
stour1303
strange1338
unmovablea1382
inflexible1398
stoutc1410
unpliablea1425
intreatable1509
stiff1526
stiff-necked1526
unpliant1547
stout-hearted1552
inexorable1553
obstinate1559
strait-laced1560
impersuasible1576
unflexiblea1586
hard-edged1589
adamantive1594
unyielding1594
adder-deaf1597
steeled1600
irrefragable1601
rigid1606
unpersuadable1607
imployable1613
unswayablea1616
uncompellable1623
inflexive?1624
over-rigid1632
unlimbera1639
seta1640
incomplying1640
uncomplying1643
stiff-girt1659
impersuadable1680
unbendinga1688
impracticable1713
unblendable1716
stiff-rumped1728
unconvinciblea1747
uncompounding1782
unplastic1787
unbending1796
adamant1816
uneasy1819
uncompromising1828
cast iron1829
hard-hitting1831
rigoristic1844
ramrod1850
pincé1858
anchylosed1860
unbendable1884
tape-bound1900
tape-tied1900
hard line1903
tough1905
absolutist1907
hard-arsed1942
go-for-broke1946
hardcore1951
hard-arse1966
hard-ass1967
hardball1974
1733 A. Pope Of Use of Riches 15 A flockbed..With tape-ty'd curtains, never meant to draw.
1748 J. Thomson Castle of Indolence i. 502 Whose desk and table make a solemn show, With tape-tied trash.
1900 Daily News 1 Aug. 3/1 Good scouts..of more importance to an army in the field than all the tape-tied intelligence officers out of Hades.
tape transport n. a mechanism which controls the movement of recording tape past a stationary head; also, a tape deck.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > sound recording or reproducing equipment > [noun] > using tape > part of
recording head1889
pinch wheel1898
capstan1948
deck1949
pinch roller1949
tape deck1949
pinch roll1953
stacked head1954
tape transport1954
1954 Trans. IRE Audio 2 23/1 The overall design of a tape transport for a professional tape recording system is very complex.
1981 Hi-Fi Answers Nov. 117/1 The tape transport is press button controlled, and operation appears to be achieved by a combination of mechanical and electrical means.
1983Tape transport [see tape drive n.]. tape-tying adj.
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society > authority > office > [adjective] > bureaucratic
functionary1668
bureaucratic1800
tape-tying1832
bureaucrat1849
red-tapish1850
red-tapey1860
tape-bound1900
tape-tied1900
striped-trouser(ed)1934
1832 Fraser's Mag. Oct. 382 The tape-tying crew who had wriggled themselves into office.
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Tennis. The protective covering that runs along the top of the length of the net.
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1883 County Gentleman 1 Sept. 1073/3 The eighth game..was also remarkable for an extraordinary performance on the part of the ball, which, returned by Stewart, struck the tape hard, and, after balancing upon it, ran along for quite four feet, finally falling on Grinstead's side.
1926 Times 3 July 8/4 The ball grazed the tape at a terrific pace and pitched just inside the forehand line.
1982 N.Y. Times 1 Sept. b 7/3 Vilas timed his return perfectly and drilled a forehand return that skipped off the tape for a winner.
1989 B. F. Berkey Keys Tulsa (1991) 141 One [winner] was lucky, a forehand that hit the tape and dribbled over.
2016 Guardian (Nexis) 19 Jan. An Istomin backhand clipped the tape and sat up to be put away.
Draft additions 1993
tape streamer n. Computing a streaming tape drive (see streaming adj. Additions 7).
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society > computing and information technology > hardware > secondary storage > [noun] > magnetic > tape drive > tape streamer
streamer1980
tape streamer1981
1981 Electronics 17 Nov. 188/1 (caption) 125-in./s tape streamer has capstan and tensioner for 45-in./s start-stop operation.
1985 Which Computer? Apr. 66/1 Connections can be made to..an external tapestreamer.
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tapen.2
/teɪp/, U.S. /teɪp/ dialect.
The mole.
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1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II. 850/2 Tape, a mole. South.
1881 H. Smith & C. R. Smith Isle of Wight Words Tape, or Teype, a mole, or want. Tape-taker, a mole-catcher.
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tapev.
/teɪp/, U.S. /teɪp/ 1.
a. transitive. To attach a tape or tapes to; to supply with a tape; to fit with tapes; to tie up, fasten, bind, or wind with tape (also figurative); spec. in Bookbinding, to join the sections of (a book) with tape. Also, to affix or fasten (up) with adhesive tape.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > tailor or make clothes [verb (transitive)] > furnish with strip(s) of material
stripe1471
welt1489
vein1502
band1530
tape1609
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > bind or tie [verb (transitive)] > fasten with tape
tape1854
society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with other materials > work with other materials [verb (transitive)] > fix or fasten with adhesive
glue13..
lute1489
paste1561
gum1592
starch1602
solution1891
seccotine1903
Scotch-tape1947
tape1956
sellotape1960
epoxy1974
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > attachment > attach or affix [verb (transitive)] > adhere to > cause to adhere > with adhesive tape
tape1956
1609 T. Cocks Diary (1901) 85 Given nursse for tapinge & starchinge my cuffes ijd.
1854 H. Miller Schools & Schoolmasters (1857) xv. 347 Of that accessible store-house in which the memories of past events lie arranged and taped up.
1854 E. Mayhew Dogs (1861) 241 [He] first, by way of precaution, tapes the animal; that is, he forms a temporary muzzle, by binding a piece of tape thrice firmly round the creature's mouth.
1859 W. M. Thackeray Virginians lxxxiv Every scrap of paper which we ever wrote, our thrifty parent..taped and docketed and put away.
1894 S. R. Bottone Electr. Instr. Making (ed. 6) 115 The armature must also be most carefully taped and varnished. No part of the iron, where the wire has to be wound, should be left uncovered.
1956 A. H. Compton Atomic Quest iv. 259 Alvarez taped three copies of this note to instrument boxes.
1972 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 18 Jan. 17/1 Every girl..should clip it out and tape it to her bedroom mirror.
1979 R. Jaffe Class Reunion (1980) i. i. 36 Daphne had taped up small museum reproductions of famous paintings and prints.
b. spec. to bind or gag (a victim, etc.) with adhesive tape. Also with up.
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society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > binding or fettering > bind, fetter, or shackle [verb (transitive)] > specific with tape
tape1932
1932 ‘Spindrift’ Yankee Slang 60 Tape a guy, gag a victim with adhesive plaster.
1950 ‘P. Quentin’ Follower xix. 135 Once they'd taped his wrists, all hope would be gone.
1962 ‘H. Howard’ Double Finesse vi. 69 It shouldn't take Alan longer than that to tape the night-watchman's mouth.
1977 D. Anthony Stud Game xiv. 84 He knocks you out..tapes you up neatly, and calls us to come and get you.
1981 P. Mallory Killing Matter xv. 157 Tie her and tape her.
2.
a. transitive. To measure with a tape-line.
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1886 [see taping n. and adj. at Derivatives].
b. Gunnery. To get the range of (a position), by means of a tape-line used in conjunction with a range-finder; hence, to hit and silence (a target).See also sense 5 below.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > management of artillery > operate (artillery) [verb (transitive)] > range (a target)
tape1917
bracket1957
1917 A. G. Empey From Fire Step xi. 65 Our artillery had taped or silenced them [sc. the trench mortars].
1917 A. G. Empey From Fire Step xxi. 146 The German artillery..had us taped (ranged) for fair; it was worth your life to expose yourself for an instant.
1919 J. B. Morton Barber of Putney iii. 45 There's a sniper got that corner taped.
1919 G. K. Rose 2/4th Oxf. & Bucks Light Infantry 36 The Pozières ridge, whose crest was well ‘taped’ by the German guns.
1927 E. Thompson These Men thy Friends iii. 70 ‘He tried them at sixteen hundred yards, and got nowhere near them—lengthened the range a thousand, and was still short. But Johnny [Turk] had us taped’ he added. ‘No bothering about mirage for him. He knew the land and the distance of every blotch and pimple on it.’
3. intransitive. To appear (of such a size) on measurement with a tape; to measure (so much).
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1895 J. G. Millais Breath from Veldt vii. 159 A good Mashonaland head seldom tapes more than 12 inches.
4. transitive. Scottish. To measure out in tape-lengths; to deal out slowly or sparingly; to use sparingly.
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the mind > possession > retaining > sparingness or frugality > use sparingly or frugally [verb (transitive)]
sparec1000
spelec1175
to spare for14..
inch out1636
tape1721
to spin out1726
scrimpa1752
1721 A. Ramsay Epist. to R. H. B. vii Then let us grip our Bliss mair sicker, And tape our Heal and sprightly Liquor.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xi, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 328 Ye sall hae a' my skill and knowledge to gar the siller gang far—I'll tape it out weel.
5. Colloquial phrase to get or have (someone or something) taped: to size up, ascertain, or understand fully (someone or something).The development of this phrase is unclear. It may have arisen as a figurative use of sense 1 with the idea of ‘tying up, having under control or in order’ (cf. quot. 18542 at sense 1a) or of sense 2 with the idea of ‘measuring, assessing’.
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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > sharpness, shrewdness, insight > achieve understanding [phrase]
to see, etc. through (also into) a (brick, mud, stone) wall1598
to read someone like an open book1827
there are no flies on1848
to get under the skin of1862
to get or have (someone or something) taped1914
1914 J. Joyce Dubliners 210 I never saw such an eye in a man's head. It was at much as to say: I have you properly taped, my lad. He had an eye like a hawk.
1919 War Slang in Athenæum 18 July 632/2 ‘I got you taped,’ an N.C.O. may say to a man, meaning ‘I know what you are up to.’
1929 J. B. Priestley Good Compan. i. iv. 114 We've made a 'ell of a bad break if we tell 'er oo we are and then there's nothing doin'. Got us taped then.
1944 A. E. Coppard in Wine & Food xliii. 153 I want to get off the land. Can you find a boat? Not a motor~boat, that's noisy and they've got the harbour taped for sure.
1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 13 Mar. 142/4 The main part of the book, with its cold effort to get Mencken ‘taped’.
1977 Evening Post (Nottingham) 27 Jan. 6/5 And so say all of us. Let's hope Portland have illiteracy ‘taped’.
6. To record on (magnetic) tape; to make a tape recording of. Also absol.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > make recording [verb (transitive)]
phonograph1878
gramophone1908
press1918
to put on wax1932
wax1935
cut1937
tape1950
tape-record1950
audiotape1961
to lay down1967
over-record1977
1950 Senior Scholastic 1 Mar. 25 t (heading) We tape it. Recorders produce a transformation in the classroom.
1958 S. Ellin Eighth Circle (1959) ii. ii. 41 He's being taped Sunday, so have one of the girls make a transcript of the tape.
1960 Guardian 9 Nov. 11/1 One [teenager] with a tape recorder can tape a pile of ‘pop’ records.
1966 ‘E. McGirr’ Funeral was in Spain 40 Okay, men, let's hear his verbal run through. I understand you didn't tape.
1975 R. H. Rimmer Premar Exper. (1976) i. 130 I've tried taping sober, high on alcohol, and stoned on grass.
1978 R. Nixon Mem. 501 I was not comfortable with the idea of taping people without their knowledge.
Derivatives
taped adj. also with out, measured or sized up; fully ascertained (cf. senses 2b, 5).
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > knowledge, what is known > [adjective] > known
couthOE
kitheOE
kent1513
bekenda1522
kenneda1525
understooda1616
taped1892
society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > [adjective] > recorded by specific system
taped1892
phonographed1897
acoustic1926
acoustical1926
stereophonic1927
monaural1931
multitracked1931
binaural1933
multitrack1935
tape-recorded1951
telediphoned1952
stereo1954
multi-taped1955
monophonic1958
pretaped1958
mono1960
audiotaped1962
multichannel1962
quarter-track1962
Dolby1966
quadraphonic1968
tetraphonic1969
periphonic1970
quad1970
quadrasonic1970
Dolbyized1971
QS1972
Dolbyed1973
premix1977
quadro1977
1892 Daily News 13 Oct. 7/2 Two large taped frames in the centre.
1929 Papers Michigan Acad. Sci., Arts & Lett. 10 329/1 Taped out, an expression applied to a strip of land upon which the German gunners had accurately registered distances.
1933 Wodehouse in Sat. Evening Post 30 Dec. 58/2 Didn't I tell you that I had everything taped out?
1953 F. Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth Space Merchants (1955) v. 55 What..have you got to back that statement up with? Letters? Memos? Taped calls?
1960 Daily Mirror 23 Apr. 18/3 Bobby Darin..left behind a taped Saturday Spectacular... This will be shown on ITV tonight.
1972 R. P. Jhabvala New Dominion i. 58 He kept turning on the taped music and the concealed lighting.
ˈtaping n. and adj.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measuring instrument > [adjective] > measuring with a tape
taping1886
society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > a sound recording > [noun] > tape
taping1886
tape record1905
tape recording1940
audiotape1959
tapescript1961
demo tape1963
musicassette1966
DAT1982
1886 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 337 Temporary taping-boys [employed on Ordnance Survey].
1955 I. A. Richards Speculative Instruments x. 122 The study of language, even in the most elementary stages, has to be a dependant of that highest generic taping which may be called ethics.
1968 H. Waugh Con Game xii. 109 A few of the people connected with the show had got together after the taping.
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