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/tˈeɪpɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Tape v. t. (past & past part. taped; pres. part. taping)

To furnish with tape; to fasten, tie, bind, or the like, with tape; specif. (Elec.), To cover (a wire) with insulating tape.

To record on audio tape or video tape; either directly, at the scene of the action tape, or indirectly, as from a broadcast of the action. "I was busy when that episode was on TV, but I taped it and watched it later."

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Etymology of 'Taping'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Taping" Quotes from Famous Books

... take either of two forms: The making of copies: by photocopying, making micro-form reproductions, videotaping, or any other method of duplicating visually-perceptible material; and The making of phonorecords: by duplicating sound recordings, taping off the air, or any other ...

— Reproduction of Copyrighted Works By Educators and Librarians • Library of Congress. Copyright Office.

... of mind, the taping took away all authority from the voices. Jill, in particular, sounded as she might have if torture had been used to break her will and force her to say what her captors wished. She could not put any warning into ...

— Operation Terror • William Fitzgerald Jenkins

... Bugis type. They are an industrious agricultural people, and supply the town with vegetables. They make a good deal of bark cloth, similar to the tapa of the Polynesians, by cutting down the proper trees and taping off large cylinders of bark, which is beaten with mallets till it separates from the wood. It is then soaked, and so continuously and regularly beaten out that it becomes as thin and as tough as parchment. In this foam it is much used ...

— The Malay Archipelago - Volume II. (of II.) • Alfred Russel Wallace

... her," Maurice said—"because she had nearly secured a roving English peer who had enjoyed 'cushy' jobs during the war, and had been recruiting from the fatigues of red-taping at Deauville—and now, with this whisper of a spoiled skin, he had transferred his attentions to Coralie—and there was trouble among the graces!"—Alice's plaintiveness had actually caught a very rich neutral who was forwarding philanthropic ...

— Man and Maid • Elinor Glyn