tape

  1. Noun.  Flexible material in a roll with a sticky surface on one or both sides, adhesive tape.
  2. Noun.  Magnetic or optical recording media in a roll, video tape or audio tape.
  3. Noun.  Unthinking, patterned response triggered by a particular stimulus.
  4. Noun.  Thin and flat paper, plastic or similar flexible material, usually produced in the form of a roll.
  5. Noun.  (''trading'', from ticker tape) The series of prices at which a financial instrument trades.
  6. Noun.  (ice hockey) The wrapping of the primary puck-handling surface of hockey stick.
  7. Verb.  To bind with adhesive tape.
  8. Verb.  To record, particularly onto magnetic tape.
  9. Verb.  (informal, passive) To understand, figure out.

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