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Scotch Tape

Definitions: Scotch Tape

Scotch Tape

Noun

1. Transparent or semitransparent adhesive tape (trade names Scotch Tape and Sellotape) used for sealing or attaching or mending.

Verb

1. Fasten or attach with sellotape; "The hotel manager scotch taped a note to the guest's door".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Synonym: Scotch Tape

Synonym: cellulose tape (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Scotch Tape

English words defined with "Scotch Tape": cellulose tapeSellotape. (references)

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Modern Usage: Scotch Tape

DomainUsage

Screenplays

It better not! We have you patched together with scotch tape and bailing wire as it is. (Knight Rider; writing credit: Cory Applebaum; Bob Benedetto)

This is where they make Scotch tape, ya know. (Inspector Gadget; writing credit: Nezihe Araz)

Clever

You work for a defense contractor if your badge company name is applied with scotch tape. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

Scotch Tape (1963)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Scotch Tape

DomainTitle

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Scotch Tape

Computer Images:
Scotch Tape

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Scotch Tape

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

scotch tape

108

3m scotch tape

12

scotch tape dispenser

5

history scotch tape

3

inventor scotch tape

3

inventeur scotch tape

2

scotch tape video

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Scotch Tape

Language Translations for "Scotch Tape"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

shirit ngjitës (adhesive bandage). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

скоч (adhesive tape, sellotape), тиксо (sellotape), прозрачни лепенки. (various references)

   

Czech

  

lepicí páska (sticky label). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

cellux (cello tape, cellophane tape, sellotape). (various references)

   

Italian

  

scotch (scotch, sellotape). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

スケ番 (bar, energy, free-standing bar, grandstand play, grandstanding, leader of a female gang, road reflector, scoop, scope, scoping, scopophilia, score, scoreboard, scorebook, scorecard, scorer, scoring position, Scotch, Scotch egg, Scotch terrier, Scotch tweed, Scotch whiskey, Scotland, Scotland Yard, scotophobin, Scott, shovel, Skopolamin, skunk, spade, squall, squawker, stability, stabilizer, staccato, stack, stacking permanent wave, stack-object, stack-pointer, stackware, stadium, stadium jumper, staff, stag film, stag party, stagflation, Stalinism, stamina, stamp, stamp collection, stance, stand, standard, standard number, standards, standby, standby passenger, stand-in, standing start, standing wave, standoff, standpoint, stand-up collar, Stanford, stanza, star, star guide, star king, star player, star sapphire, star system, Star Trek, Star Wars, Star Watching, starch, stardom, stardust, staring lineup, starlet, starlight, Stars and Stripes, start, start dash, start line, starter, starting block, starting member, starting pitcher, static, statistics, statue, Sterling block, Sterling engine, stout, stub, studio, studless tire, study, stuff, stuffed egg, stun, stun gun, stunt car, stunt man, style, style file, stylebook, styling, stylish, stylist, stylus, stymie), セル付 (10^-2, a center, bottle cap, celery, cellophane tape, center, centering, centi-, centimeter, centre, ceremony, facility providing funeral services, good sense, select, selection, selector, selenium, sensation, sensational, sensor, serenade, stopper, with a self-starter). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

スコッチテープ , セロハンテープ (cellophane tape). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otchscay apetay

   

Russian 

  

склеивающая лента. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

selotejp. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

cinta adhesiva (adhesive tape, isolating tape, sellotape, sticky tape, tape). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

selobant, kâğıt bantı, bant (band, binding, braid, court plaster, cushion, fascia, fillet, recording, ribbon, strap, strapping, strip, tape, welt). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Scotch Tape

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-h-o-p-s-t-t"

-1 letter: cachepots.

-2 letters: cachepot, cathects, postheat.

-3 letters: accepts, cachets, capotes, catches, cathect, cheapos, coaches, costate, hepcats, patches, poaches, shoepac, teapots, teashop, toccate, toecaps.

-4 letters: accept, accost, aptest, aspect, caches, cachet, capote, chapes, chaste, cheapo, cheaps, cheats, chotts, coacts, coapts, costae, cottae, cottas, epacts, epochs, hepcat, octets, pathos, potash, sachet, sapote, scathe, scotch, spathe, stacte, taches, teapot, thetas, toecap, tophes.

-5 letters: aches, ascot, cache, capes, caphs, capos, caste, catch, cates, cesta, chaos, chape, chaps, chapt, chase, chats, cheap, cheat, chest, chops, chose, chott, coach, coact, coapt, coast, coats, cocas, copes, copse, cosec, coset, costa, cotes, cotta, echos, epact, ephas, epoch, escot, estop, ethos, haets, haste, hates, heaps, heats, hopes, hosta, oaths, octet, opahs, paces, pacts, paseo, paste, patch, pates, paths, peach, peats, pechs, pesto, petto, phase, phots, poach, poets, psoae, scape, scatt, scope, secco, septa, shape, shoat, shote, shott, space, spate, staph, state, stoae, stoat, stope, stopt, taces, tacet, tache, tachs, tacos, tacts, tapes, taste, tates, teach, teats, tecta, tepas, testa, teths, theca, theta, those, toast, toeas, topes, tophe, tophs, totes.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-h-o-p-s-t-t"
 

+3 letters: tachistoscope.

 

+4 letters: ecocatastrophe, tachistoscopes.

 

+5 letters: ecocatastrophes.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Scotch Tape


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 63 6F 74 63 68      54 61 70 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01100011 01101111 01110100 01100011 01101000 00100000 01010100 01100001 01110000 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#99 &#111 &#116 &#99 &#104 &#32 &#84 &#97 &#112 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0063 006F 0074 0063 0068      0054 0061 0070 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

536981866974254678271

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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