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Tape vs Tapespondent - What's the difference?

tape | tapespondent |

As nouns the difference between tape and tapespondent

is that tape is flexible material in a roll with a sticky surface on one or both sides; adhesive tape while tapespondent is a sort of penfriend who communicated by means of early audio tape recordings sent in the post.

As a verb tape

is to bind with adhesive tape.

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

    * * * ----

    tapespondent

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dated) A sort of penfriend who communicated by means of early audio tape recordings sent in the post.
  • * 1967 , Ken Peters, Modern tape recording and hi-fi
    • The average is probably around three or four, but some tapespondents have more than fifty contacts.
  • * 1969 , High Fidelity (volume 19, issues 7-12)
    • So, while some tapespondents wrap their tapes in aluminum foil...
  • * 2002 , Tom Sherman, Peggy Gale, Before and After the I-Bomb: An Artist in the Information Environment
    • I remember a few particularly valued tapespondents : Don from Riverside, California; Louis from Miami, Florida...

    Derived terms

    * tapesponding