Flexible material in a roll with a sticky surface on one or both sides; adhesive tape.

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

Finishing tape, stretched across a track to mark the end of a race.

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

(informal, by extension) Any video or audio recording, regardless of the method used to produce it.

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

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

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

(printing, historical) A strong flexible band rotating on pulleys for directing the sheets in a printing machine.

Clipping of red tape (“time-consuming bureaucratic procedures”).

To bind with adhesive tape.

To record, originally onto magnetic tape.

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