What's the difference between jape and tape?

Jape


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To jest; to play tricks; to jeer.
  • (v. t.) To mock; to trick.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Impassioned shouty pointy Arsenal man, Romelu Lukaku's hotel japes and Jonathan de Guzman giving Dirk Kuyt a very black eye are all part of this week's Classic YouTube .
  • (2) Mel and Sue, providing jolly japes about buns and so on, are just like Ant'n'Dec for the Guardian reader.
  • (3) Gray drew strongly on his relationship with his brother, 10 years his junior and also a writer and academic, for Japes, his 2001 success.
  • (4) And although we undertook the exercise as a bit of a jape, something else about the results stood out: the greatest talking up of a turnaround was in the rightwing papers.
  • (5) She even had Alexa, an old children's home pal, turn up for some japes.
  • (6) In fact, there was a sinking feeling once the japes of his final show – the tandem trip with Boris, the guest gag with Michael Howard, the signoff weather forecast – took hold.
  • (7) He dressed up as Santa Claus He made both managers wear festive hats He replaced the pre-match coin toss with a Christmas cracker What japes He gave every mascot a mince pie Lionel Messi was born in which city?
  • (8) Actually, the Mill just threw in that last one for japes.
  • (9) Where once there were pub japes, there are now spreadsheets.
  • (10) Farewell to the awful swotters, dirty tinkers and jolly japes: Enid Blyton's language is being dragged out of the 1940s by her publisher in an attempt to give her books greater appeal for today's children.
  • (11) Elise Andrew is "overwhelmed" and "blown away" when she looks at the Facebook page she created as a jape and which has nearly 7 million likes and more than 3 million "talking abouts" and fans including evolutionary biologist and writer Richard Dawkins and TV host Bill Nye, "the science guy".
  • (12) It was to mark the beginning of the final flowering of his career, during which he wrote three of his finest plays, including The Late Middle Classes and, latterly, Japes.
  • (13) Not to mention a fart machine and ­perpetrator of other mad, pointless and preposterous one-time-use pranks, japes and wheezes.
  • (14) Gray confidently and, as it turned out, inaccurately, predicted that Japes would be his last play.
  • (15) But behind the jokes and japes lies an unpleasant party founded on fear, one that exploits the anxiety of older voters and is proving to be a profoundly corrosive influence on British politics.
  • (16) Mulberry had fun with storybooks, English boarding school japes and a pooch on the catwalk wearing the label's most luxurious dog-wear to date, a sheepskin-trimmed and padded parka jacket; Anya Hindmarch themed her collection on Quality Street wrappers, provided a tea trolley and rode a bicycle.
  • (17) asks JUSTIN SPENCER, whose caps lock button appears to have been glued down by a colleague as part of some hilarious office jape.
  • (18) This, though, is the light stuff: university japes, boys being boys.
  • (19) Let's preserve the mystery and say only that what Richard did falls outside the category of jolly japes.
  • (20) When he brought George W Bush to the constituency in 2003 , the US president’s twin black Sikorsky helicopters had to land in a nearby field, before Dubya alighted for the jape of seeing how a British leader lived.

Tape


Definition:

  • (n.) A narrow fillet or band of cotton or linen; a narrow woven fabric used for strings and the like; as, curtains tied with tape.
  • (n.) A tapeline; also, a metallic ribbon so marked as to serve as a tapeline; as, a steel tape.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Although measurements are easily obtained with a tape measure, the validity of these measurements is not known.
  • (2) A combined plot of all results from the four separate papers, which is ordered alphabetically by chemical, is available from L. S. Gold, in printed form or on computer tape or diskette.
  • (3) The fact that the security service was in possession of and retained the copy tape until the early summer of 1985 and did not bring it to the attention of Mr Stalker is wholly reprehensible,” he wrote.
  • (4) Patients' and therapists' discourses can be analysed from tape recordings or from their responses to open-ended questions.
  • (5) I’m very sorry.” Who is Billy Bush: the man egging on Trump in tape about groping women Read more Trump and Bush had been on a bus headed to the set of the soap opera Days of Our Lives, in which Trump was set to make a cameo.
  • (6) His wrists were shown wrapped in tape with “MIKE BROWN” and “MY KIDS MATTER” written on them.
  • (7) In response, Trump used Twitter to falsely claim that the woman in question, Alicia Machado, had made a sex tape.
  • (8) Video tapes have been used extensively in medical education and especially in training for family practice.
  • (9) Foreign investment has been sluggish because of insecurity, red tape and corruption.
  • (10) Hulk Hogan’s status as a public figure, even one who holds forth often and at length about his sex life, may have kept him from getting the kind of sympathy that the subject of the escort story immediately received, but there’s no evidence Bollea intended for anyone to see the tape.
  • (11) This preliminary study involved rating of tape-recorded sessions by psychoanalytically oriented judges.
  • (12) I didn't want to leave but David asked me to because he'd made a tape and said he wanted the world to understand.
  • (13) The computer system was a hybrid of analog devices (tape-recorder, voltage summator, and high-pass filters) and a multipurpose laboratory digital device (PDP-12).
  • (14) On referral to our clinic, his physical examination and tape recording were characterized by harsh inspiratory stridor.
  • (15) A 16-channel EEG tape recorder system having a frequency response of DC-100 Hz for each channel is described.
  • (16) But we shouldn’t forget that Gawker was not just getting sued over the Hulk Hogan sex tape case.
  • (17) Matches on the NDCD tape could be found for 80% of the items in the shelf stock sample and 69.5% of the items in the tape supplied by the wholesaler.
  • (18) However, more careful examination revealed that these actually represented transient speeding of the monitor tape, perhaps secondary to a semiconductor malfunction.
  • (19) Single stage semi-automated radioimmunoassays for total serum thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3) are described which employ an automatic pipetting station, automatic gamma counter, and a programmable calculator with paper tape reader and printing facility.
  • (20) The tape-recorded EEG offers possibilities of more channels and a higher reliability when diagnosing short subclinical seizures, however, only after offline analysis.