japed English
Verb
(head)
(jape)
jape English
Noun
( en noun)
A joke or quip.
* , "The Pardoner's Tale" in The Canterbury Tales :
- "Thou bel ami, thou Pardoner," he said,
- "Tell us some mirth of japes right anon."
* 1920 , , The Geste of Duke Jocelyn , Fytte 9:
- [H]e clapped hand to thigh, and laughed and laughed until the air rang again.
- "Oho, a jape'—a ' jape indeed!" he roared.
Synonyms
* See
Derived terms
* (l)
Verb
( jap)
To jest; play tricks; joke.
* 1886 , , "To Sir John Manndeville" in Letters to Dead Authors :
- Now the Lond of Egypt longeth to the Soudan, yet the Soudan longeth not to the Lond of Egypt. And when I say this, I do jape with words, and may hap ye understond me not.
To mock; deride; gibe; trick; befool.
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taped English
Verb
(head)
(tape)
Anagrams
* adept
* pated
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
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