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noun

ˈtāp How to pronounce tape (audio)
Definition of tapenext
as in videotape
a recording (as of a movie) for playback on a TV the rival campaign leaked a tape of the senator angrily reprimanding a little boy for stepping on his foot

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tape

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verb

as in to rope

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Recent Examples of tape
Noun
Yellow police tape and flashing emergency lights were visible on the closed Wyandotte County street. — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 21 Sep. 2026 When playwright Marco Ramirez was growing up in Hialeah, music from Cuba’s great orchestras could be heard through his grandfather’s small Sony boombox on cassette tapes at family gatherings, from Nochebuena celebrations to weddings. — Michelle F. Solomon, Miami Herald, 21 Sep. 2026
Verb
Staff quietly hurried to tape falling signage to the walls, troubleshoot the jumbotron and cook burgers and hot dogs as rain seeped through the grated ceilings of the exterior walkways. — Jaclyn Licht, NPR, 8 Aug. 2026 The reunion itself will tape on Monday, August 10 in two parts. — Carolyn Burt, Daily News, 28 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for tape
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tape
  1. videotape
  2. rope
  3. video
  4. cord
  5. wire
  6. bandage
  7. loop
  8. chain
Noun
  • Or the fact that the Magician has recorded the group ritual through which the demon was transported into the little girl’s body on videotape.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026
  • The Pontiac, Michigan show – which was filmed on two-inch videotape and has never been previously released – has a very similar setlist.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of videotape
Verb
  • Local authorities would rope together timber logs for a makeshift bridge, but in the rainy season, the logs would grow slippery and floods would wash them away.
    — Fatma Tanis, NPR, 29 Aug. 2026
  • Climbers who rope up together learn from one another, with no strict hierarchy.
    — William Finnegan, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
Definition of rope
Noun
  • Explore the interactive map above to watch a custom video following Vinny’s journey through the Northeast.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Killings along Indian Creek A combination of surveillance video and other physical evidence led police to Scott.
    — Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of video
Verb
  • Settings and controls Many electric or corded heating pads come with some type of temperature control, either through a remote or on the pad.
    — BestReviews, Mercury News, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Electric snow blowers are corded and good for clearing light to moderate snow off patios, porches, walkways, and small-to-medium-size driveways.
    — Christina Cush, Architectural Digest, 20 Feb. 2026
Definition of cord
Verb
  • Carr and Konkoly would wire everyone up with EEG, perform their lucid-dreaming protocol, and let people drift off.
    — Veronique Greenwood, Time, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Have your closing costs and down payment ready to wire in advance.
    — Sharon Wu, USA Today, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of wire
Verb
  • On a recent morning in the city center, Spanish police were kicking out young boys who had slept overnight on cardboard slabs, some of them bruised and bandaged.
    — Colette Davidson, Christian Science Monitor, 13 Sep. 2026
  • The video also shows officers bandaging the woman's wound after she was shot in the parking lot.
    — Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of bandage
Verb
  • The open center gives hand towels or bath sheets somewhere to loop through, rather than inevitably slipping onto the floor, and the handmade stoneware can hold up to 10 pounds.
    — Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 11 Sep. 2026
  • While hunting for his missing wife, Marissa, Hale is dragged through an escalating nightmare of environments that loop, warp and rebuild themselves from his own memories and trauma.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of loop
Verb
  • The Democrats wrote in a summary of the allegations that immigrants sleep while restrained with handcuffs, leg irons and belly chains, and even elderly people have been chained for 16 hours a day.
    — Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Apple is keeping up by enabling M5 Pro Mac minis to be chained together via Thunderbolt 5 to share their computational resources for larger AI models.
    — Joe Osborne, PC Magazine, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of chain

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“Tape.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tape. Accessed 29 Sep. 2026.

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