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say it: tayp
tape is a noun and verb meaning "a long thin piece of cloth or paper as used for binding or fastening". It is pronounced /ˈteɪp/ — tayp. It carries 8 recorded senses.
a long thin piece of cloth or paper as used for binding or fastening
“he used a piece of tape for a belt”
“he wrapped a tape around the package”
a recording made on magnetic tape
“the several recordings were combined on a master tape”
measuring instrument consisting of a narrow strip (cloth or metal) marked in inches or centimeters and used for measuring lengths
“the carpenter should have used his tape measure”
memory device consisting of a long thin plastic strip coated with iron oxide; used to record audio or video signals or to store computer information
“he took along a dozen tapes to record the interview”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for tape come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.