Tape vs Mend - What's the difference?
tape | mend |
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.
A place, as in clothing, which has been repaired by mending.
The act of repairing.
To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement; to patch up; to put in shape or order again; to re-create; as, to mend a garment or a machine.
To alter for the better; to set right; to reform; hence, to quicken; as, to mend one's manners or pace.
* Sir W. Temple
To help, to advance, to further; to add to.
* Mortimer
* Shakespeare
To grow better; to advance to a better state; to become improved.
As a noun tape
is stone.As a verb mend is
to feed.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
* * * ----mend
English
Noun
(en noun)- My trousers have a big rip in them and need a mend .
Derived terms
* on the mendVerb
(en verb)- My trousers have a big rip in them and need mending .
- When your car breaks down, you can take it to the garage to have it mended .
- Her stutter was mended by a speech therapist.
- My broken heart was mended .
- The best service they could do the state was to mend the lives of the persons who composed it.
- Though in some lands the grass is but short, yet it mends garden herbs and fruit.
- You mend the jewel by wearing it.