A Tape

1. Flexible material in a roll with a sticky surface on one or both sides; adhesive tape.
2. Thin and flat paper, plastic or similar flexible material, usually produced in the form of a roll.
3. Finishing tape, stretched across a track to mark the end of a race
4. Magnetic or optical recording media in a roll; videotape or audio tape.*
5. (informal, by extension) Any video or audio recording, regardless of the method used to produce it.
6. (informal) An unthinking, patterned response triggered by a particular stimulus.
7. (trading, from ticker tape) The series of prices at which a financial instrument trades.
8. (ice hockey) The wrapping of the primary puck-handling surface of a hockey stick
9. (printing, historical) A strong flexible band rotating on pulleys for directing the sheets in a printing machine.