Definition of tape

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Tape (n.) A tapeline; also, a metallic ribbon so marked as to serve as a tapeline; as, a steel tape..

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Surge :: Surge (n.) The tapered part of a windlass barrel or a capstan, upon which the cable surges, or slips..
Taperness :: Taperness (n.) The quality or state of being taper; tapering form; taper.
Tape :: Tape (n.) A tapeline; also, a metallic ribbon so marked as to serve as a tapeline; as, a steel tape..
Spiss :: Spiry (a.) Of or pertaining to a spire; like a spire, tall, slender, and tapering; abounding in spires; as, spiry turrets..
Extrastapedial :: Extrastapedial (n.) The extrastapedial part of columella.
Taper :: Taper (v. t.) To make or cause to taper.
Club :: Club (n.) A heavy staff of wood, usually tapering, and wielded the hand; a weapon; a cudgel..
Torchwort :: Torchwort (n.) The common mullein, the stalks of which, dipped in suet, anciently served for torches. Called also torch, and hig-taper..
Measles :: Measles (n.) A disease of cattle and swine in which the flesh is filled with the embryos of different varieties of the tapeworm.
Amphora :: Amphora (n.) Among the ancients, a two-handled vessel, tapering at the bottom, used for holding wine, oil, etc..
Metapeptone :: Metapeptone (n.) An intermediate product formed in the gastric digestion of albuminous matter.
Spire :: Spire (n.) A tapering body that shoots up or out to a point in a conical or pyramidal form. Specifically (Arch.), the roof of a tower when of a pyramidal form and high in proportion to its width; also, the pyramidal or aspiring termination of a tower which can not be said to have a roof, such as that of Strasburg cathedral; the tapering part of a steeple, or the steeple itself..
Toilet :: Toilet (n.) A covering of linen, silk, or tapestry, spread over a table in a chamber or a dressing room..
Cone :: Cone (n.) A solid of the form described by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of the sides adjacent to the right angle; -- called also a right cone. More generally, any solid having a vertical point and bounded by a surface which is described by a straight line always passing through that vertical point; a solid having a circle for its base and tapering to a point or vertex..
Toggle :: Toggle (n.) A wooden pin tapering toward both ends with a groove around its middle, fixed transversely in the eye of a rope to be secured to any other loop or bight or ring; a kind of button or frog capable of being readily engaged and disengaged for temporary purposes..
Spinet :: Spinescent (a.) Becoming hard and thorny; tapering gradually to a rigid, leafless point; armed with spines..
Tier :: Tier (n.) A chold's apron covering the upper part of the body, and tied with tape or cord; a pinafore..
Witch :: Witch (n.) A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other fat, and used as a taper..
Knout :: Knout (n.) A kind of whip for flogging criminals, formerly much used in Russia. The last is a tapering bundle of leather thongs twisted with wire and hardened, so that it mangles the flesh..
Yard :: Yard (v. i.) A long piece of timber, nearly cylindrical, tapering toward the ends, and designed to support and extend a square sail. A yard is usually hung by the center to the mast. See Illust. of Ship..
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