Tame vs Tape - What's the difference?
tame | tape |
Not or no longer wild; domesticated
(chiefly, of animals) Mild and well-behaved; accustomed to human contact
Not exciting
Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
* Roscommon
(mathematics, of a knot) Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
to make something
to become
(obsolete, UK, dialect) To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.
* Fuller
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 tame and tape
is that tame is water-source while tape is stone.tame
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Adjective
(er)- They have a tame wildcat.
- The lion was quite tame .
- This party is too tame for me.
- For a thriller, that film was really tame .
- tame slaves of the laborious plough
Quotations
* (English Citations of "tame")Synonyms
* (not exciting) dull, insipidAntonyms
* (not wild) wild * (mild and well-behaved) gentle * (not exciting) exciting * (mathematics) wildDerived terms
* tamely * tamenessVerb
- He tamed the wild horse.
Derived terms
* tamerExternal links
* ("tame" on Wikipedia)Etymology 2
Compare (etyl) .Verb
(tam)- In the time of famine he is the Joseph of the country, and keeps the poor from starving. Then he tameth his stacks of corn, which not his covetousness, but providence, hath reserved for time of need.
Anagrams
* * * * English ergative verbs ----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.
