Tale vs Tape - What's the difference?
tale | tape |
(obsolete) Number.
(obsolete) Account; estimation; regard; heed.
(obsolete) Speech; language.
(obsolete) A speech; a statement; talk; conversation; discourse.
(legal, obsolete) A count; declaration.
(rare, or, archaic) Numbering; enumeration; reckoning; account; count.
* (John Dryden)
(rare, or, archaic) A number of things considered as an aggregate; sum.
(rare, or, archaic) A report of any matter; a relation; a version.
An account of an asserted fact or circumstance; a rumour; a report, especially an idle or malicious story; a piece of gossip or slander; a lie.
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, title= A rehearsal of what has occurred; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story.
A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration.
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* Milton
* Carew
* 1843 (Thomas Carlyle), '', book 2, ch. 5, ''Twelfth Century
(slang) The fraudulent opportunity presented by a confidence man to the mark (sense 3.3) of a confidence game.
(dialectal, or, obsolete) To speak; discourse; tell tales.
(dialectal, chiefly, Scotland) To reckon; consider (someone) to have something.
Flexible material in a roll with a sticky surface on one or both sides; adhesive tape.
Thin and flat paper, plastic or similar flexible material, usually produced in the form of a roll.
Finishing tape, stretched across a track to mark the end of a race.
Magnetic or optical recording media in a roll; videotape or audio tape.
Unthinking, patterned response triggered by a particular stimulus
(trading , from ticker tape) The series of prices at which a financial instrument trades.
(ice hockey) The wrapping of the primary puck-handling surface of a hockey stick
To bind with adhesive tape.
To record, particularly onto magnetic tape.
(informal, passive) To understand, figure out.
As nouns the difference between tale and tape
is that tale is (de-form-noun) while tape is stone.tale
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) . Related to tell, talk.Noun
(en noun)- Both number twice a day the milky dams; And once she takes the tale of all the lambs.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“A very welcome, kind, useful present, that means to the parish. By the way, Hopkins, let this go no further. We don't want the tale running round that a rich person has arrived. Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing. […]”}}
- the ignorant, who measure by tale , and not by weight
- And every shepherd tells his tale , / Under the hawthorn in the dale.
- In packing, they keep a just tale of the number.
- They proceeded with some rigour, these Custodiars; took written inventories, clapt-on seals, exacted everywhere strict tale and measure
Derived terms
* fairy tale / fairytale * folk tale / folktale * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * tall tale * telltale * tell tales * tell tales out of schoolEtymology 2
From (etyl) talen, from (etyl) .Verb
(tal)Etymology 3
Anagrams
* ----tape
English
Noun
(en noun)- Hand me some tape . I need to fix a tear in this paper.
- After the party there was tape all over the place.
- Jones broke the tape in 47.77 seconds, a new world record.
- Did you get that on tape ?
- Old couples sometimes will play tapes at each other during a fight.
- Don’t fight the tape .
- His pass was right on the tape .
Derived terms
(Derived terms) * adhesive tape * cassette tape * cut red tape * double-sided tape * duck tape * duck tape * duct tape * gaffer tape * gray tape * magnetic tape * masking tape * on tape * police tape * red tape * scotch tape * Sellotape * sex tape * tale of the tape * tapeworm * tape measure * tape recorder * ticker tape * sticky tape * video tapeVerb
- Can you tape that together, please?
- You shouldn’t have said that. The microphone was on and we were taping.
- I've finally got this thing taped.