tapeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA^(key): /teɪ̯p/, [tʰeɪ̯p]
• 韻: -eɪp

名詞

tape (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 tapes)

1. 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.

2. Thin and flat paper, plastic or similar flexible material, usually produced in the form of a roll.

   We made some decorative flowers out of the tape we bought.

3. 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.

4. Magnetic or optical recording media in a roll; videotape or audio tape.

   Did you get that on tape?

5. (informal, by extension) Any video or audio recording, regardless of the method used to produce it.
   • 2018 August 18, Susan Edelman, New York Post:

     “It was one of the most severe beatings they’ve seen on tape,” an FDNY insider said, recalling the reaction by brass who viewed video of the bloody fisticuffs.

6. (informal) An unthinking, patterned response triggered by a particular stimulus.

   Old couples will sometimes play tapes at each other during a fight.

7. (trading, from ticker tape) The series of prices at which a financial instrument trades.

   Don’t fight the tape.

8. (ice hockey) The wrapping of the primary puck-handling surface of a hockey stick

   His pass was right on the tape.

9. (printing, historical) A strong flexible band rotating on pulleys for directing the sheets in a printing machine.
10. (possible, obsolete, UK, slang) Liquor, alcoholic drink, especially gin or brandy. (Especially in prison slang or among domestic servants かつ women.)

    white tape, Holland tape, blue tape (gin); red tape (brandy または wine)

    • 1827 (originally 1755?), Connoisseur, page=223:

      Madam Gin has been christened by as many names as a German princess : every petty chandler's shop will sell you Sky-blue, and every night-cellar furnish you with Holland tape, three yards a penny. Nor can I see the difference […]

    • 1817, The White Dwarf: A London Weekly Publication, page 222:

      […] who is now puffing his pipe and sipping his grog, as unconcerned as a Dutch fiddler at a merry-making, has no business here selling his cheese and candles in the day-time, and his yards of tape in the evening: […] and now then for the tape-shop. […]

    • '1830, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Paul Clifford, published 1854:

      A tumbler of blue ruin fill, fill for me! / Red tape those as likes it may drain, / But whatever the lush, it a bumper must be.
      […]
      Oh! those jovial days are ne'er forgot! But the tape lags—When I be's dead, you'll drink one put To poor old Bags!

11. Clipping of red tape (“time-consuming bureaucratic procedures”).
    • 1923, Henry C. Clark, Departmental Practice, Admission of Attorneys, Etc, page 7:

      [When dealing with the] Federal Government, "red tape" is unavoidable. Perseverance, good humor and thoroughness will almost invariably cut through the "tape” or lead to the proper official where courteous and attentive treatment will be received.

    • 1953, United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary, Hearings, page 53:

      He was going to cut through the tape and ship this Army stuff straight to France.

    • 1988, United States Senate Select Committee on Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaraguan Opposition, Iran-Contra Investigation: [...] One Hundredth Congress, First Session, page 26:

      Mr. Cheney: […] to move in the direction of deciding that the only way to get anything done, to cut through the red tape, to be able to move aggressively, is to have it done, in effect, inside the boundary of the White House. […] Mr. North: […] there are certainly times when one has to cut through the tape.

    • 2011 March 1, Simon Maier, Jeremy Kourdi, The 100: Insights and lessons from 100 of the greatest speakers and speeches ever delivered, Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd, →ISBN, page 295:

      As Treasurer and Governor of Texas, she had an ability to cut through the tape and conventions to get stuff done and make things better. She modernized systems, made government more transparent and accountable and […]

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動詞

tape (三人称単数 現在形 tapes, 現在分詞 taping, 過去形および過去分詞形 taped)

1. To bind with adhesive tape.

   Be sure to tape your parcel securely before posting it.

2. To record, originally onto magnetic tape.

   You shouldn’t have said that. The microphone was on and we were taping.

3. (informal, passive) To understand, figure out.

   I've finally got this thing taped.

関連する語

• roll tape
• tape off

派生した語

• → Danish: tape
• → Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tape, teipe

  Nynorsk: tape, teipa

アナグラム

• PETA, Paet, Pate, Peat, Peta, epta-, pate, peat, peta-, pâté, tepa