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Tape vs Rubberband - What's the difference?

tape | rubberband |

As nouns the difference between tape and rubberband

is that tape is stone while rubberband is .

As a verb rubberband is

(lb).

tape

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Flexible material in a roll with a sticky surface on one or both sides; adhesive tape.
    • Hand me some tape . I need to fix a tear in this paper.
  • Thin and flat paper, plastic or similar flexible material, usually produced in the form of a roll.
    • After the party there was tape all over the place.
  • Finishing tape, stretched across a track to mark the end of a race.
    • Jones broke the tape in 47.77 seconds, a new world record.
  • Magnetic or optical recording media in a roll; videotape or audio tape.
    • Did you get that on tape ?
  • Unthinking, patterned response triggered by a particular stimulus
    • Old couples sometimes will play tapes at each other during a fight.
  • (trading , from ticker tape) The series of prices at which a financial instrument trades.
    • Don’t fight the tape .
  • (ice hockey) The wrapping of the primary puck-handling surface of a hockey stick
    • 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 tape

    Verb

  • To bind with adhesive tape.
    • Can you tape that together, please?
  • To record, particularly onto magnetic tape.
    • You shouldn’t have said that. The microphone was on and we were taping.
  • (informal, passive) To understand, figure out.
    • I've finally got this thing taped.

    Related terms

    * roll tape * tape off

    Anagrams

    * * * ----

    rubberband

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1998 , Natural Hair Care and Braiding (ISBN 1562533169), page 114:
    • Once the hair is sewn onto the foundation, use the proper styling aids to blend all natural hair that is not in rubberbands into the commercial hair, if necessary.
  • * 1999 , Jennifer Overend Prior, ?Janet A. Hale, Bats (ISBN 1576903761), page 39:
    • Provide each child, or pair of children, with a shoebox (shoebox lid is not needed) and different sizes and thicknesses of rubberbands'. The children are to stretch several different sizes of ' rubberbands around the entire shoebox's girth.
  • * 2008 , Susan E. Harris, Grooming To Win (ISBN 0470285125), page 203:
    • Braiding with rubberbands is quicker than sewing in yarn or thread but it is not acceptable for high-level competition, and it will break off hairs and damage the mane.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (lb)
  • * 2001 , Braiding: Easy Styles for Everyone (ISBN 0766837645), page 71:
    • Rubberband them together.
  • * 2013 , Phil Rickman, The Fabric of Sin (ISBN 1623652839):
    • Long red-gray hair in a rubberbanded ponytail,
  • * 2014 , Steve Hullfish, Avid Uncut (ISBN 1134070632):
    • Editors are very set in their ways of whether they prefer doing level changes within a clip by rubberbanding or by breaking the clip into pieces and adjusting the levels of each piece.