Measuring tape

Definition

tape /teÇp/ n ၁။ [C, U] ႀကိဳးျပား။ တိပ္ႀကိဳး။ a metre of linen tape ❍ The seat covers are held in place by tapes. ❍ a name tape (ie sewn into a garment and showing the owner's name). ၂။ (က) [U] အသံသြင္းတိပ္။ အသံသြင္းႀကိဳးေခြ။ recording tape ❍ I've got all the Beethoven symphonies on tape. See also MAGNETIC TAPE, VIDEOTAPE (ခ) [C] တိပ္ေခြ။ The police seized various books and tapes. ❍ Shall I put on a tape? ❍ a blank tape (ie one on which nothing has been recorded). ၃။ [U] ဆယ္လိုတိပ္။ adhesive tape ❍ fix a notice to a wall with tape. See also INSULATING TAPE, MASKING TAPE, SCOTCH TAPE ၄။ [C] ပန္းတာႀကိဳး။ ပန္းဝင္ႀကိဳး။ He broke the tape (ie finished the race) half a second ahead of his rival. ၅။ [C] = RED TAPE, TAPE-MEASURE, TICKER-TAPE v ၁။ (က) ႀကိဳးျပားျဖင့္ခ်ည္သည္၊ တုပ္သည္။ tape (up) a bundle. (ခ) တိပ္ျဖင့္ကပ္သည္။ tape the flap of an envelope down ❍ tape a message onto a door. ၂။ တိပ္ေခြျဖင့္ ဖမ္းသည္။ တိပ္ေခြသြင္းသည္။ tape a concert (off/from the radio) ❍ taped music/messages. ❏ have (got) sb/sth taped [ IDM ] ( infml esp Brit ) ေကာင္းေကာင္းသေဘာေပါက္သည္။ It took me a while to learn the rules of the game but I think I've got them taped now. ❏ tape deck n အသံဖမ္းစက္။ ❏ tape-measure (also tape, measuring tape ) n ေပႀကိဳး။ ❏ tape-record v တိပ္ျဖင့္ဖမ္းထားသည္။ tape- recorded interviews. ❏ tape recorder n (တိပ္ေခြသံုး) အသံဖမ္းစက္။ ❏ tape recording n (တိပ္ေခြျဖင့္) အသံသြင္းျခင္း။ အသံသြင္း လုပ္ငန္း။

Examples

1. [on tape] : We’ve got the concert on tape.
2. This is a great tape – have you heard it?
3. [a blank tape] : We need a blank tape so that we can record the film.
4. Police roped off the area with yellow tape after the incident.