noun.
A measuring-tape which has one or more flexible wires woven into its length so that stretching may be prevented when the tape is used out of doors in wet weather. The steel tape has replaced this.
noun.
A mole.
To furnish with tape or tapes; attach tape to; tie up with tape; in bookbinding, to join the sections of (a book) by bands of tape.
To draw out as tape; extend.
noun.
A band of linen; an ornamental fillet or piece.
noun.
A narrow strip of linen or of cotton, white or dyed of different colors, used as string for tying up papers, etc., or sewed to articles of apparel, to keep them in position, give strength, etc.
noun.
A narrow, flexible band of any strong fabric, rotating on pulleys, which presses and guides the movement of sheets in a printing-machine or paper-folding machine.
noun.
In telegraphy, the strip of paper used in a printing telegraph-instrument.
noun.
A tape-line; a tape-measure.
noun.
A long narrow fillet or band of metal or mineral: as, a corundum tape.
noun.
Red tape. See the phrase below.
noun.
A tapeworm.
noun.
Spirituous or fermented drink.
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Hence— The transaction of public business as if it consisted essentially in the making, indorsing, taping, and filing of papers in regular routine; excessive attention to formality and routine without regard to the right of the government or of the parties concerned to a reasonably speedy conclusion of the case.