tape [teɪp]
noun
1 (made of cloth) cinta; (f) (adhesive tape) cinta adhesiva; (f) Scotch;™ (m) (Dep) meta; (f) (ceremonial) cinta simbólica; (f)(also tape measure) cinta métrica; (f) metro; (m) I need a tape to measure this room Jean-Louis Bianco, the French transport minister, cut a tape to open a motorway interchange use the tapes that are sewn inside the tent flap to tie it back
2 (for recording) (magnetic strip) cinta (magnetofónica); (f) tape is expensive and loses sound quality every time it is copied he was interviewed on tape
(cassette, recording) cinta; (f) why don't you put a tape on she still listens to the tapes I gave her
I'll do you a tape of it te lo grabaré (en cinta); a blank tape una cinta virgen; on tape grabado (en cinta)
verb:transitive
1 (record) grabar (en cinta) did you tape that film on TV last night? she's just taped an interview
2 (seal) (also tape up) cerrar con cinta; poner una cinta a put the bottles into boxes and tape them up shopkeepers were taping up their windows the envelope has been taped shut
3 (fasten) to tape sth to sth pegar algo a algo con cinta adhesiva
a series of electrodes were taped to his head I taped the base of the feather onto the velvet there are notes from years ago taped to the walls
4 to have sth/sb taped (informal) I've got him taped ya le tengo calado; (informal) I've got it taped ya le he cogido el tranquillo; (informal) we've got it all taped lo tenemos todo organizado; todo funciona perfectamente
modifier
tape deck (n) pletina; (f) unidad de cinta; (f)
tape drive (n) (Comput) accionador de cinta; (m)
tape machine (n) casete; (m) magnetofón; (m)
tape measure (n) cinta métrica; (f) metro; (m)
tape recorder (n) casete; (m) (Esp) grabadora; (f) especially (LAm) (reel-to-reel) magnetofón; (m) magnetófono; (m)
tape recording (n) grabación (en cinta); (f)
tape streamer (n) (Comput) dispositivo de copia de seguridad; (m) The entire set of scanned drawings is occupying approximately 140 mbytes of storage in compressed form enabling entire back-up copies to be made on two tape streamer tapes
