## Meanings
1. A thin strip of material with a sticky surface, used for fixing or sticking things together.
2. A long thin band on which sound or pictures can be recorded.
3. A long thin strip of cloth or metal marked with measurements, used to measure length.
4. To fix or attach something using tape.

## Examples
- Hand me some tape so I can fix this torn page.
- He still has old tapes of his favourite songs.
- The carpenter used a tape to measure the width of the door.
- She taped the address label to the box before posting it.

## Derived Forms
- audiotape
- braintape
- nametape
- sellotape
- sticky-tape
- tape-record
- tape-recorded
- tape-worm
- tapeworm
- time-tape
- videotape

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: tape
- Root: tæppa

## Etymology
From Middle English tape, tappe, from Old English tæppa, tæppe (“ribbon, tape”); further origin unclear. Probably akin to Old Frisian tapia (“to pull, rip, tear”), Middle Low German tappen, tāpen (“to grab, pull, rip, tear, snatch”), Middle High German zāfen, zāven (“to pull, tear”).

## AI Etymology
Tape is from Middle English tape, tappe, from Old English tæppa, tæppe (“ribbon, tape”); further origin unclear. Probably akin to Old Frisian tapia (“to pull, rip, tear”), Middle Low German tappen, tāpen (“to grab, pull, rip, tear, snatch”), Middle High German zāfen, zāven (“to pull, tear”). In present-day use, it can mean a thin strip of material with a sticky surface, used for fixing or sticking things together, or a long thin band on which sound or pictures can be recorded.

## Topics
- Mathematics & Measurement
- Materials & Substances

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