Tape vs Hose - What's the difference?
tape | hose |
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.
(countable) A flexible tube conveying water or other fluid.
(uncountable) A stocking-like garment worn on the legs; pantyhose, women's tights.
(obsolete) Close-fitting trousers or breeches, reaching to the knee.
* Bible, Daniel iii. 21
* Shakespeare
To water or spray with a hose.
* {{quote-book
, year=1995
, author=Vivian Russell
, title=Monet's Garden: Through the Seasons at Giverny
To provide with hose (garment)
* {{quote-magazine
, year=1834
, author=Pierce Pungent
, title=Men and Manners
, date=July to December
, volume=X
, page=416
, magazine=Fraser's magazine for town and country
Who dwell in towns where he pursued the chase;
The men degenerate shirted, cloaked, and hosed -
Nose and eyes only to the day exposed}} To attack and kill somebody, usually using a firearm.
* {{quote-book
, year=2003
, author=John R. Bruning
, title=Jungle ace
, publisher=Brassey's
To trick or deceive.
* {{quote-book
, year=1995
, author=Keath Fraser
, title=Popular anatomy
, publisher=The Porcupine's Quill
(computing) To break a computer so everything needs to be reinstalled; to wipe all files.
* {{quote-magazine
, year=2006
, date=Spring 2006
, author=Joel Durham Jr.
, title=Pimp Out Win XP with TweakUI
, page=63
, magazine=Maximum PC
, publisher=Future US, Inc.
, issn=1522-4279
As nouns the difference between tape and hose
is that tape is flexible material in a roll with a sticky surface on one or both sides; adhesive tape while hose is a flexible tube conveying water or other fluid.As verbs the difference between tape and hose
is that tape is to bind with adhesive tape while hose is to water or spray with a hose.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.
Anagrams
* * * ----hose
English
(wikipedia hose)Noun
- These men were bound in their coats, their hosen , and their hats, and their other garments.
- His youthful hose , well saved, a world too wide / For his shrunk shank.
Usage notes
* (garment covering legs ) Formerly a male garment covering the lower body, with the upper body covered by a doublet. By the 16th century hose had separated into two garments, stocken and breeches. Since the 1920's, hose refers mostly to women's stockings or pantyhoseDerived terms
* hose clamp * hose clipVerb
(hos)citation, isbn=9780711209886 , page=83 , passage=Only days before the garden opens, the concrete is hosed down with a high-pressure jet and scrubbed.}}
citation, passage=The mighty mass of many a mingled race,
Who dwell in towns where he pursued the chase;
The men degenerate shirted, cloaked, and hosed -
Nose and eyes only to the day exposed}}
citation, isbn=9781574886948 , page=136 , passage=His guns hosed down the vessel's decks, sweeping them clear of sailors, blowing holes in the bulkheads, and smashing gun positions.}}
citation, isbn=9780889841499 , page=458 , passage=Bartlett elaborated on what had happened at the warehouse, saying he thought Chandar was supposed to have advised, not hosed him.}}
citation, passage=There aren't any tricky hexadecimal calculations to snare your brain, nor is there a need to worry about hosing the registry for all eternity.}}
