(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.
Tope
Definition:
(n.) A moundlike Buddhist sepulcher, or memorial monument, often erected over a Buddhist relic.
(n.) A grove or clump of trees; as, a toddy tope.
(n.) A small shark or dogfish (Galeorhinus, / Galeus, galeus), native of Europe, but found also on the coasts of California and Tasmania; -- called also toper, oil shark, miller's dog, and penny dog.
(n.) The wren.
(v. i.) To drink hard or frequently; to drink strong or spiritous liquors to excess.
Example Sentences:
(1) Chair of the judges Gus Casely-Hayford praised the story, saying: "Tope Folarin's 'Miracle' is another superb Caine prize winner – a delightful and beautifully-paced narrative, that is exquisitely observed and utterly compelling."
(2) Previous winners include Nigeria’s Tope Folarin in 2013 and Zimbabwe’s NoViolet Bulawayo in 2011.
(3) In 1987 the tope 1 percent of spenders accounted for 30 percent of health spending, up from 26 percent in 1970 and 29 percent in 1980.
(4) "Our doctors are worried about the danger it poses to their lives and the need to be reassured," said Tope Ojo, Lagos chairman of the Nigerian Medical Association.
(5) Nigerian writer Tope Folarin has scooped the Caine Prize for African Writing for his "utterly compelling" short story Miracle [PDF], set among Nigerian expatriates living in the US.