tape

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Noun

1. Flexible material in a roll with a sticky surface on one or both sides; [[adhesive tape]].
2. Thin and flat paper, plastic or similar flexible material, usually produced in the form of a roll.
3. Finishing tape, stretched across a track to mark the end of a race.
4. Magnetic or optical recording media in a roll; [[videotape]] or [[audio tape]].
5. {{lb|en|informal|by extension}} Any video or audio recording, regardless of the method used to produce it.
6. {{lb|en|informal}} An unthinking, patterned response triggered by a particular stimulus.
7. {{lb|en|trading|from [[ticker tape]]}} The series of prices at which a financial instrument trades.
8. {{lb|en|ice hockey}} The wrapping of the primary puck-handling surface of a hockey stick.
9. {{lb|en|printing|historical}} A strong flexible band rotating on [[pulley]]s for directing the sheets in a printing machine.
10. {{lb|en|possible|obsolete|UK|slang}} [[liquor|Liquor]], [[alcoholic]] drink, especially [[gin]] or brandy. {{q|Especially in prison slang or among domestic servants and women.}}
11. {{clipping of|en|red tape|t=time-consuming bureaucratic procedures}}.

Verb

1. To bind with [[adhesive tape]].
2. To record, originally onto [[magnetic tape]].
3. {{lb|en|informal|passive}} To understand, figure out.

Proper noun

1. a nearly extinct language spoken on [[Vanuatu]]

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