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Definition: Tape |
TapeNoun1. A long thin piece of cloth or paper as used for binding or fastening; "he used a piece of tape for a belt"; "he wrapped a tape around the package". 2. A recording made on magnetic tape; "the several recordings were combined on a master tape". 3. The finishing line for a foot race; "he broke the tape in record time". 4. Measuring instrument consisting of a narrow strip (cloth or metal) marked in inches or centimeters and used for measuring lengths; "the carpenter should have used his tape measure". 5. Memory device consisting of a long thin plastic strip coated with iron oxide; used to record audio or video signals or to store computer information; "he took along a dozen tapes to record the interview". Verb1. Fasten or attach with tape; "tape the shipping label to the box". 2. Record on videotape. 3. Register electronically. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tape" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1611. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Tape 1. magnetic tape. 2. paper tape. (1996-05-25). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Chemical Industry | A ribbon, generally of paper or cloth and coated with adhesive, that is used to hold sheets of veneer(and also splits therein)together, for convenience in handling during the gluing operation. Source: European Union. (references) |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of tape, denotes your work will be wearisome and unprofitable. For a woman to buy it, foretells she will find misfortune laying oppression upon her. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Industry | Through the center of the lower part of the frame there is usually a long drum 8 or 10 inches in diameter, from which small rope bands or tapes run to drive the spindle. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A woven narrow fabric, generally plain-weave, used in non-load-bearing applications and the reinforcing of fabrics to resist wear and deformation. Cotton tapes are produced in widths up to and including 54 mm and in weights not exceeding the equivalent of 420 g per 100 m of 25 mm width. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mechanical Engineering | Machine component for providing the rolling motion of the pitch block. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A continuous ribbon or strip of steel, invar, dimensionally stable alloys, specially made cloth, or other suitable material, having a constant cross section and marked with linear graduations, used by surveyors in place ofa chain for the measurement of lengths or distances. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | TAPE. Red tape; brandy. Blue or white tape; gin. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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For the meaning of cassette in genetics, see cassette (genetics).The compact audio cassette audio storage medium, sometimes known as the musicassette, was introduced by Philips in 1963. It consists of a length of magnetic tape inside a protective plastic shell. 4 tracks are available on the tape, giving 2 stereo tracks - one for playing with the cassette inserted with its 'A' side up, and the other with the 'B' side up, thus mimicking gramophone records.
On the grounds of convenience, this was a massive step forward from reel-to-reel recording, though the limitations of the cassette's size and speed compared poorly in quality. Unlike the open reel format, the two stereo tracks lie adjacent to each other rather than a 1/3 and 2/4 arrangement. The tape is 3.175 mm wide (an eighth of an inch) and moves at 47.625 mm/s (1 7/8 inch).
The mass production of compact audio cassettes began in 1965 in Hannover, Germany. Commercial sales of pre-recorded music began in 1965.
Tape length was usually measured in minutes total playing time, and the most popular varieties were C60 (30 minutes per side), C90, and C120 (usually thinner tape, more likely to be destroyed in use - especially the C120). Some vendors were more generous than others, providing 132 m or 135 m rather than 129 m for a C90 cassette. C180 and even C240 tapes were available at one time - these were extremely thin and fragile, and suffered from effects such as print-through which made them unsuitable for high fidelity use. However, their fragility meant that a good quality deck was nevertheless needed to use them without breakages, so they quickly disappeared from sale.
Originally intended for use only in dictation machines it quickly became a medium for distributing pre-recorded music with an option for home recording use. Most cassettes were sold blank and used for recording the owner's records (to protect from wear or to make compilations), their friends' records, or music from the radio. This practice was sometimes condemned by the music industry with such slogans as "home taping is killing music". However, many opined that the medium was ideal for spreading new music and quite likely increased sales, and strongly defended at least their right to copy their own records onto tape. Cassettes were also a boon to people wishing to make 'bootlegs' for sale - unauthorised concert recordings.
Cassettes were also used for reputable purposes including journalism, field history, meeting transcripts and so on. Many home computers of the 1980s used cassettes as an inexpensive alternative to floppy disks as a storage medium for programs and data.
The original magnetic material was based on ferrite (Fe2O3), but then chromium dioxide (CrO2) and more exotic materials were used in order to improve sound quality to try to match those of vinyl records. These had different bias requirements, requiring more complicated equipment. Also used were a variety of noise reduction schemes, of which Dolby was the most pervasive. By the late 1980s, sound fidelity on equipment by manufacturers such as Nakamichi and Tandberg far surpassed the levels expected of the medium by early detractors and on suitable audio equipment can challenge the sound quality of the compact disc.
Technical development of this medium effectively ceased when digital recordable media such as DAT and MiniDisc were introduced. Since the rise of cheap CD-R discs, the phenomenon of "home taping" effectively switched to compact disc.
See Also
- Cassette Culture
- Digital Compact Cassette
- Elcaset
- List of audio formats
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Compact audio cassette."
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Magnetic tape is an information storage medium consisting of a magnetisable oxide coating on a thin plastic strip. Nearly all recording tape is of this type, whether used for video with a video cassette recorder, audio storage (reel-to-reel tape, compact audio cassette, digital audio tape (DAT) and other formats including 8-track cartridges) or general purpose digital data storage using a computer (specialized tape formats, as well as the above-mentioned compact audio cassette, used with home computers of the 1980s, and DAT,used for backup in workstation installations of the 1990s).
Magnetic Tape Audio Storage
From the late 1940s through the 1970s, (analog) magnetic tape was the predominant and the highest quality sound recording techology available.
Magnetic recording had been demonstrated in principle as early as 1898 by Valdemar Poulsen in his telegraphone. With electronic amplification, the telegraphone evolved into wire recorders which were popular for voice recording and dictation during the 1940s and into the 1950s. The reproduction quality of wire recorders was low, however—significantly lower than that achievable with phonograph disk recording technology. Wire recorders could not prevent the wire from undergoing axial twisting, and hence could not insure that the wire was oriented the same way during recording and playback. When oriented the wrong way, high frequencies were reduced and the sound was muffled. The hysteresis of the steel material resulted in nonlinear transfer characteristics, manifesting as distortion. There were other practical difficulties, such as the tendency of the wire to become tangled or snarled. Splicing could be performed by knotting together the cut wire ends, but the results were not very satisfactory.
Magnetic tape recording as we know it today was developed in Germany during the late 1930s by the C. Lorenz company. In 1938, S. J. Begun left Germany and joined Brush Development Company in the United States, where work continued but attracted little attention. During the war, the Allies became aware of radio broadcasts that seemed to be transcriptions, but whose audio quality was indistinguishable from that of a live broadcast. After the war, the Allied capture of a number of German Magnetophon recorders from Radio Luxembourg aroused great interest. These recorders incorporated all of the key technological features of analog magnetic recording, particular the use of high-frequency "bias."
Development of magnetic tape recorders in the late 1940s and early 1950s is associated with the Brush Development Corporation and its licensee, Ampex; the equally important development of magnetic tape media itself was led by Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing corporation (now known as 3M).
The use of magnetic tape recorders in broadcasting got a significant boost from Bing Crosby, who refused to perform on radio unless his shows could be prerecorded.
7-1/2" reel of 1/4" recording tape
Typical of audiophile/consumer/educational use 1950s/60sThe typical professional tape recorder of the early 1950s used 1/4" wide tape on 10-1/2" reels, with a capacity of 2400'. Typical speeds were initially 15 inches per second (ips) yielding 30 minutes' recording time on a 2400' reel. 30 ips was used for the highest quality work.
Standard tape speeds varied by factors of two. 30 and 15 ips were used for professional audio recording; 7-1/2 ips for home audiophile prerecorded tapes; 7-1/2 and 3-3/4 ips for audiophile and consumer recordings (typically on 7" reels). 1-7/8 ips and occasionally even 15/16 ips were used for voice, dictation, and applications where very long recording times were needed (such as logging police and fire department calls).
The key electronic invention that made high-quality audio tape recording possible was the development of so-called "bias." Bias is a high-frequency signal, typically in the range of 50 to 150 kHz, which is added to the signal to be recorded before being applied to the recording head. Bias enables a linear transfer function to be obtained from the highly nonlinear magnetic recording medium. In effect, the bias causes the magnetization to be performed at levels that are in the most nearly linear portion of the medium's transfer function. As the tape leaves the head, the bias current partially demagnetizes the tape and the remaining net induction is essentially the difference between the positive and negative half-cycles of the previously recorded. This differencing operation further cancels some of the nonlinearity.
Magnetic audio tape can be easily and inaudibly spliced, a fact which revolutionized audio recording. Multiple tracks could easily be recorded simultaneously (on a wide tape), and played back with perfect synchronization; this, too was revolutionary. It became common studio recording practice to record on multiple tracks, and mix down afterwards. The convenience of tape editing and multitrack recording led to the rapid adoption of magnetic tape as the primary technology for commercial musical recordings. Although 33-1/2 rpm and 45 rpm vinyl phonograph disks were the dominant consumer format, recordings were customarily made first on tape, then transferred to disk.
Analog magnetic tape recording introduces noise, usually called "hiss", caused by the finite size of the magnetic particles in the tape. There is a direct tradeoff between noise and economics. Signal-to-noise ratio is reduced at higher speeds and with wider tracks, increased at lower speeds and with narrower tracks.
By the late 1960s, disk reproducing equipment became so good that audiophiles soon became aware that some of the noise audible on recordings was not surface noise or deficiencies in their equipment, but reproduced tape hiss. A few companies starting making "direct to disk" specialty recordings, made by feeding microphone signals directly to a disk cutter (after amplification and mixing). These recordings never became popular, but they dramatically demonstrated the magnitude and importance of the tape hiss problem.
In the 1970s, advances in solid-state electronics were making the design and marketing of more sophisticated analog circuitry economically feasible. This led to a number of attempts to reduce tape hiss through the use of various forms of volume compression and expansion, the most notable and commercially successful being several systems developed by Dolby Laboratories. These systems divided the frequency spectrum into multiple bands and applied volume compression/expansion independently to each band. The Dolby systems were very successful at increasing the effective dynamic range and signal-to-noise ratio of analog audio recording; to all intents and purposes, audible tape hiss could be eliminated.
In the 1980s, digital recording methods were introduced, and analog tape recording was gradually displaced.
Magnetic Tape Video Storage
Magnetic Tape Data Storage
half-inch reel tapeMagnetic tape was first used to record data in 1951 on the Mauchly-Eckert Univac. The recording medium was a thin band of solid steel. Recording density was 128 characters per inch at a linear speed of 100 ips, yielding a data rate of 12800 characters per second.
IBM computers of the late 1950s used oxide-coated tape similar to that used in audio recording, and IBM's technology soon became the de facto industry standard. Magnetic tape was half an inch wide and wound on removable reels 10.5 inches in diameter. Different lengths were available with 2400 feet and 4800 feet being common.
IBM's drives were mechanically sophisticated floor-standing drives that used vacuum columns to buffer long loops of tape. Powerful reel motors activated the reels as necessary to maintain the length of the tape loop in each column within set limits. The two reels thus spun in rapid, uneven and unsynchronized bursts of motion which were eye-catching and dramatic. Stock shots of vacuum-column tape drives came to symbolize "the computer" in movies and television.
LINCtape (and its derivative, DECtape) were variations on this "round tape." They were essentially a personal storage medium. They featured a fixed formatting track which, unlike standard tape, made it feasible to read and rewrite blocks repeatedly in place. LINCtapes and DECtapes had similar capacity and data transfer rate to the diskettes that displaced them, but their "seek times" were on the order of thirty seconds to a minute.
Most modern magnetic tape systems use reels that are reels are much smaller and are fixed inside a cartridge to protect the tape and facilitate handling. Cartridge formats include QIC, DAT, and Exabyte.
cartridge tapes in drivesTape is read and written on a tape drive (or "deck") which winds the tape from one reel to the other causing it to move past a read/write head. Early tape had seven parallel tracks of data along the length of the tape allowing six bit characters plus parity written across the tape. A typical recording density was 556 characters per inch. The tape had reflective marks near its end which signaled beginning of tape (BOT) and end of tape (EOT) to the hardware.
Data is typically written to tape in blocks with inter-block gaps between them. Each block is typically written in a single operation with the tape running continuously during the write. There is a complex tradeoff between block size, the size of the data buffer in the record/playback deck, the percentage of tape lost on inter-block gaps, and read/write throughput.
Tape has quite a long data latency for random accesses since the deck must wind an average of 1/3 the tape length to move from one arbitrary data block to another. Tape remains a viable alternative to disk due to its higher bit density and cost per bit. Tape has historically offered enough advantage in these two areas above disk stroage to make it a viable product. The recent vigorous innovation in disk storage density and price, coupled with less-vigorous innovation in tape storage, has reduced the viability of tape storage products.
Most tape systems attempt to alleviate the intrinsic long latency using eitheer indexing, whereby a separate lookup table is maintained which gives the physical tape location for a given data block number, or marking, whereby a tape mark that can be detected while winding the tape at high speed.
Most tape drives now include some kind of data compression. There are several algorithms which provide similar results: LZ (Most), IDRC (Exabyte), ALDC (IBM, QIC) and DLZ1 (DLT). The actual compression algorithms used are not the most effective known today, and better results can usually be obtained by turning off the compression built into the device and using a software compression program instead.
see also: cut a tape, flap, Group code recording, spool, macrotape, microtape, Non Return to Zero Inverted, Phase encoded, Tape Drive, Error Correction, Helical scan, print-through
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- Duct tape
- Magnetic tape
- Punched tape
- Tape drive
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
TAPE | English | Tape automatic preparation equipment | N/A |
| TAB | English | Tape automated bonding | Electrical Engineering |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: TapeSynonyms: mag tape (n), magnetic tape (n), tape measure (n), tape recording (n), tapeline (n), taping (n), record (v), videotape (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: erase (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Filament | Wire, string, thread, packthread, cotton, sewing silk, twine, twist, whipcord, tape, ribbon, cord, rope, yarn, hemp, oakum, jute. |
Record | Recording, tape recording, videotape. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | He will be in cahoots with the Columbia Record and Tape Company guy who's been after my ass for years (Reality Bites; writing credit: Ben Stiller, written by Helen Childress.) And after he signs the bill, release the tape anyway (Tomorrow Never Dies; writing credit: Bruce Feirstein) Sometimes. Wouldn't hold out much hope for the tape deck though (The Big Lebowski; writing credit: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen) Brick Top's way of doing business is with a stun gun, a plastic bag, a roll of tape, and a pack of hungry pigs (Snatch.; writing credit: Guy Ritchie) Your honor, how they prove that the voice on that tape is not Mr. Cole himself (Liar Liar; writing credit: Paul Guay; Stephen Mazur) | |
Lyrics | Gave you a tape full of dope beats (Forgot About Dre; performing artist: Dr. dre) Grabbed the tape from out the deck and offed it out the window (Murder Murder (Remix) *; performing artist: Eminem) Get the CD, twelve inch vinyl, get the tape (Guilty Until Proven Innocent; performing artist: Jay-Z) Or a tape to learn ("U Can't Touch This"; performing artist: M.C. Hammer) Yeah what, Rob do the mix, tape to JL (Freakin It; performing artist: Will Smith) | |
Clever | Red Tape Holds Up New Bridge (references; author: unknown) You work for a defense contractor if your badge company name is applied with scotch tape. (references; author: unknown) I am so glad God sees the whole video tape of my life and not just a snapshot of where I am now. (references; author: unknown) How to act insane: Put mosquito netting around your work area. Play a tape of jungle sounds all day. (references; author: unknown) Adult Education Topic: Health watch: Bringing her flowers is not harmful to your health. Graphics and audio tape. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Krapp's Last Tape (1972) Scotch Tape (1963) The Blood Red Tape of Charity (1912) Our Very First Sex Tape (2003) Outrageous Celebrity Look-Alike Behavior Caught on Tape (2003) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Data tape storage room, NCHS. Credit: CDC. |  | Automatic Digital Recording (ADR) tide gauge Punched aluminum backed paper tape every 6 minutes with stage of tide. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Traverse work on Florida's West Coast Traverse crew off of HYDROGRAPHER Circular reel contains invar measuring tape. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Andy Allen measuring distance from mark on tide staff to location on pier top. K. Fuhs is diver in water helping keep the tape vertical. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Digital tape system for recording data. Credit: Flying With NOAA. |  | During the early 1980s, NSSL and University of Oklahoma researchers place TOTO (TOtable Tornado Observatory) in the path of an on-coming tornado. It would measure temperature, pressure, relative humidity etc. It would record the data on tape inside the 55 gallon drum. TOTO was hit by a small tornado only once in April, 1985. Credit: National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL). |
 | Underwater tape recorders were used to record the number and size of each fish species on a set transect. A conversion table was used to convert estimated length of fish to estimated weight. Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |  | A diver equipped with underwater tape recorder, wetsuit, watch for determining dive time. Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |
 | Scientist Frank Porto at the tape drives of the then new National Environmental Satellite Service (NESS) mass data storage system, the SDC TBMII. This system was used to archive all of the TIROS-N and NOAA-6 digital data on standard two- inch video tape. Credit: NOAA in Space. |  | President Lyndon Johnson listens to a tape recording from his son-in-law Capt. Charles Robb, who was a Marine Corps company commander in Vietnam. By Jack Kightlinger, Washington, DC, July 31, 1968. Credit: Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, National Archives and Records Administration. |
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| "Tape 1" by Gilles Van Leeuwen Commentary: "Photo of a DV tape." | "Tape recorder 1" by Dennis Maij Commentary: "This is my 40 years old tape recorder." |
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| Play | Caption |
 | Brief sound of an audio tape being rewound. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Bhagavad Gita | Sages speak of the immutable Tree of Life, with its tape root above and its branches below. |
Thomas Carlyle | Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | A piece of broad tape attached to a bell hung at the right of the grated opening |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The city dump had been visited for wire, every tool box had contributed friction tape. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Or use a tape recorder instead of notes. (references) | |
Take notes from the tape after the visit is finished. (references) | ||
You may want to ask if you can use a tape recorder during your visit. (references) | ||
Business | China is a large producer of magnetic tape, floppy discs, and magnetic powder. (references) | |
CPPIA now has more than 700 members nationwide making plastic films, plates, sheets, pipes, rods, tape, flame-retardant plastic conveyer belts and other laminated or composite plastic products. (references) | ||
Foreign firms interested in entering the Portuguese market should consider the possibility of joint venture agreements with Portuguese companies in order to avoid bureaucratic red tape. Private companies, already established in the market, are good possible distributors, representatives and/or joint venture partners. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Haiti | Police confiscated his tape recorder and hit him with fists and batons. (references) |
Cote d'Ivoire | During the incident, Tape Koulou was in France covering the visit of President Gbagbo. (references) | |
Ghana | In July the Government resumed an investigation into the substance of a tape publicized in October 1999 that appeared to implicate President Rawlings in several infamous extralegal actions of the predemocratic era. (references) | |
Economic History | Qatar | Normally, such a delay is attributed to bureaucratic red tape. (references) |
Guyana | Attempts at reform of bureaucratic procedures have not succeeded in limiting red tape. (references) | |
Lebanon | Foreign investment in industrial projects has been limited due to red tape and restrictions. (references) | |
Human Rights | Central African Republic | On September 19, the station broadcast the tape. (references) |
Italy | Magistrates' interrogations of persons in custody must be recorded on audio tape or videotape to be admissible in judicial proceedings. (references) | |
Belarus | Initially KGB officials claimed that the man on the tape was not Uglyanitsa and that they had investigated the alleged burial site and found nothing. (references) | |
Political Economy | AUSTRIA | In past years, the government has cut red tape to make Austria more attractive for investors. (references) |
BELGIUM | National treatment standards were introduced in the blank tape levy provisions of the new law. (references) | |
Sudan | Police took a camera, a file of newspaper cuttings, five boxes of slides, a corrector tape, three floppy disks, and a bottle of whiskey. (references) | |
Trade | Oman | Stick on tape printed production and expiration dates are not acceptable. (references) |
Nigeria | Observers note little success to date in reducing red tape and corruption. (references) | |
Argentina | Domestic taxes (i.e., excise taxes) are levied on tobacco, alcoholic beverages, soft drinks, syrups, extracts and concentrates, television sets, tape recorders, record players, microwave appliances, among other products. (references) | |
Travel | Yemen | Corruption and red tape within the government is endemic. (references) |
Cote D'ivoire | In general, barring the red tape, large shipments can be accommodated within and external to Côte d'Ivoire. (references) | |
China | Other items such as cameras, televisions, stereo equipment, computers, and tape recorders must be declared and may be assessed a duty depending upon the item's value. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | Hey, if I wanted to read a book, I'd buy one on tape. |
Fred Trujillo | If I viewed the tape a second or third time, and, again, I don't know vehicles, but someone who knows vehicles could certainly tell you what kind of car it was. |
Lynne Cheney | Well, when we were in private life, I think I liked that better. And I was a bit taken aback when Dick decided to run for vice president. In fact, we came on your show and I've since watched that tape. And I look like I was shellshocked. |
Paul Burrell | I saw the tape. I knew of the tape's existence. It was mentioned in my trial. I knew that the tape was what it was purported to be because the princess told me. |
Rush Limbaugh | You can't show up at a city council meeting and applaud, use a tape recorder, or react verbally in any way. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | We are wasting literally millions of working hours costing billions of taxpayers' and consumers' dollars because of bureaucratic red tape. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | The Department has made strides to cut red tape and paperwork and thereby to make the flow of Federal dollars to school districts and institutions of higher education more efficient. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Reducing unneeded red tape and regulations, and deregulating the energy, transportation, and financial industries have unleashed new competition, giving consumers more choices, better services, and lower prices. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | Not, not more bureaucracy, not more red tape, but the certainty that here at home, and especially in our dealings with other nations, environmental issues have the status they deserve. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | I challenge every community, school and state to adopt national standards of excellence, measure whether schools are meeting those standards, cut red tape so that schools have more flexibility for grassroots reform, and hold them accountable for results. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Tape" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.94% of the time. "Tape" is used about 4,451 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 93.94% | 4,182 | 2,357 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 4.53% | 202 | 21,454 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.48% | 66 | 41,290 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.04% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4,451 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "tape" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Tape | Last name | 200 | 39,048 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| Indonesia | Ekadharma Tape Industries Tbk. P.T. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "tape": adhesive tape ♦ advanced Intelligent Tape ♦ archival tape peripheral ♦ binding tape ♦ blank tape ♦ breast the tape ♦ bureaucratic red tape ♦ cassette tape ♦ cassette tape holder ♦ cellulose tape ♦ chad tape ♦ chadless tape ♦ cut a tape ♦ DAS tape ♦ data tape ♦ demo tape ♦ digital Audio Tape ♦ digital Linear Tape ♦ duct tape ♦ Dutch tape ♦ end of tape ♦ fish tape ♦ friction tape ♦ furnish with tape ♦ furnished with tape ♦ government red tape ♦ gummed tape ♦ hard tape errors ♦ inclusion of gummed tape ♦ insulating tape ♦ log tape ♦ mag tape ♦ magnetic tape ♦ magnetic tape cartridge ♦ magnetic tape cassette ♦ magnetic tape deck ♦ magnetic tape drive ♦ magnetic tape leader ♦ magnetic tape recording ♦ magnetic tape reel ♦ magnetic tape trailer ♦ magnetic tape transport mechanism ♦ magnetic tape unit ♦ manual tape relay ♦ masking tape ♦ master tape ♦ measuring tape ♦ name tape ♦ paper tape ♦ perforated tape ♦ pilot tape ♦ plastic tape ♦ polymer tape ♦ punch tape ♦ punch tape code ♦ punched paper tape ♦ punched tape ♦ punched tape code ♦ recording tape ♦ red tape ♦ round tape ♦ scotch tape ♦ sealing tape ♦ square tape ♦ steel tape ♦ sticky tape ♦ streaming tape drive ♦ surveyor's tape ♦ tape address register ♦ tape archive ♦ tape automated bonding ♦ tape back ♦ tape cartridge ♦ tape certification ♦ tape certifier ♦ tape dancing ♦ tape deck ♦ tape down ♦ tape drive ♦ tape feed ♦ tape feed sequence ♦ tape grass ♦ tape head ♦ tape library ♦ tape line ♦ tape machine ♦ tape magazine ♦ tape measure ♦ tape monkey ♦ Tape needle ♦ tape on ♦ tape Operating System ♦ tape player ♦ tape printer ♦ tape punch pin ♦ tape record ♦ tape recorder ♦ tape recording ♦ tape relay ♦ tape reset ♦ tape row. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "tape": tape-based, tape-bonded, tape-counter, tape-deck, tape-driven, tape-editing, tape-grass, tape-journal, tape-loop, tape-machine, tape-measure, tape-measures, tape-memory, tape-monitor, tape-number, tape-outs, tape-path, tape-player, tape-record, tape-recorded, tape-recorded message, tape-recorder, tape-recorders, tape-recording, tape-recordings, tape-running, tape-slide, tape-slides, tape-tastic, tape-to-tape, tape-up. | |
Ending with "tape": audio-tape, ticker-tape, video-tape. | |
Containing "tape": ticker-tape parade, ticker-tape reception. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
tape | 991 | and 1 mix tape | 168 |
book on tape | 963 | vhs tape | 160 |
tape worm | 942 | masking tape | 157 |
tape drive | 817 | tape duck | 149 |
duct tape | 685 | 3m tape | 147 |
r kelly sex tape | 513 | fish tape | 144 |
video tape | 488 | reflective tape | 137 |
caught on tape | 431 | r kelly tape | 136 |
tape recorder | 354 | duct tape wallet | 130 |
tape backup | 326 | exercise tape | 125 |
autopsy coroner laci peterson tape | 289 | cassette tape | 120 |
mini dv tape | 255 | dlt tape | 118 |
tape measure | 217 | measuring tape | 109 |
mix tape | 215 | scotch tape | 108 |
1 mix tape tour | 210 | tape library | 105 |
audio tape | 201 | double sided tape | 102 |
duct tape wart | 194 | tape dispenser | 100 |
barricade tape | 185 | blank video tape | 98 |
adhesive tape | 182 | dat tape | 97 |
caution tape | 178 | subliminal tape | 93 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "tape"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | band (binding, strip, tire, tyre). (various references) | |
Albanian | shirit (band, bandage, bar, braid, cleat, colors, colours, edging, fillet, ribbon, sash, scarf, strap, stria, stripe, Taenia, tapeworm), rrip (band, bandeau, belt, cincture, cleat, girdle, leash, riband, ribbon, slat, spline, strap, streak, strip, thong, trace, waist belt), lidh me rrip (band, belt, fillet, strap), kordele (snood, tag), gajtan (bar, braid, cord, galloon, lace, lacing, piping, purl, stay-lace). (various references) | |
Arabic | قاس (austere, callous, concrete, cruel, cutthroat, drastic, firm, gauge, hard, hard-hearted, harsh, inclement, inflexible, measure, merciless, pitiless, relentless, rigid, rigorous, rough, rugged, ruthless, scale, severe, solid, standardize, stark, stern, stiff, strict, stringent, tough, try on, unfeeling, unkind, unyielding), سجل على شريط (tape record), سجل شريط في المسجل, عصابة (bandage, gang, herd, pack, ring, robbers, set, shower, swathe), الشريط المغنطيسي, ربط بشريط, شريط فديو, شريط قياس للخياطة, شريط تسجيل, شريط المنتهى, شريط الزينة, شريط الربط, شريط (band, bar, ribbon, streak, strip, stripe). (various references) | |
Asturian | cinta. (various references) | |
Bemba | icipimo. (various references) | |
Blackfoot | iihtáókspainnakio'p. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | рулетка (roulette, tape line, tape measure), телеграфна лента, ширит (edging, galloon, gimp, lace, piping, string), връзвам с лента, магнетофонна лента, записвам на магнетофонна лента, лента на финала, лента (band, bar, decoration, riband, ribbon, strap, string, strip), пристягам с лента, пристягам с лепенки, подшивам (hem, line, overcast, oversew, stitch up), подлепям (glue, overlay, paste), измервам с рулетка, измервам с метър. (various references) | |
Cebuano | teyp. (various references) | |
Chinese | 膠帶 , 磁带, 捲帶 . (various references) | |
Czech | tkanice (lace, string), tkaloun (galloon), zalepit (glue up, gum up, paste up, seal up, stick up, wafer), videokazeta (video cassette, videocassette, videotape), svázat páskou, slepit (cobble together, gum, gum down, gum up, paste, paste together, put together), páska (armlet, blindfold), nahrát (record), leukoplast (adhesive plaster, Band aid, elastoplast, plaster), kazeta (box, cartridge, casket, cassette), izolepa, cílová páska. (various references) | |
Danish | tape (adhesive tape, isolating tape, polymer tape), spindelsnor (rope band, spinning band), spindebånd (rope band, sliver, spinning band), smalt vævet bånd, rulleslæde (generating slide, roll band), papirstrimmel (overlay, paper tape, perforated tape, punch tape, punched paper tape, punched tape), papirstriber, papirhulstrimmel (paper tape, perforated tape, punch tape, punched paper tape, punched tape), magnetbånd (magnetic tape), måleband (measuring tape), hulstrimmel (paper tape, perforated tape, punch tape, punched paper tape, punched tape), hulbånd (paper tape, perforated tape, punch tape, punched paper tape, punched tape). (various references) | |
Dutch | met een band omgeven, band (band, binding, bond, border, braid, brim, brink, cover, edge, edging, fillet, fringe, ligament, orchestra, ray, ribbon, rim, string, strip, stripe, tie, tire, tyre, volume). (various references) | |
Esperanto | bendo (binding, strip), bendi. (various references) | |
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