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Definition: Duct Tape |
Duct TapeNoun1. A wide silvery adhesive tape intended to seal joints in sheet metal duct work but having many other uses. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Duct Tape |
| Specialty definitions using "duct tape": ASBESTOS REMOVAL WORKER. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
After the war, the housing industry boomed and people started using duct tape for many other purposes. The name 'duct tape' comes from its use on heating and air conditioning ducts, a purpose for which it, ironically, has been deemed ineffective by the state of California and by building codes in most other places in the U.S (which means professionals are restricted from using it in systems they install, but do-it-yourselfers are not).
Duct tape is sometimes referred to as "duck tape" because it was made of cotton duck fabric, for its ability to repel moisture like a duck's back, and for the fact that "t" consonant can sound attached to the second word when spoken incautiously. "Duck Tape" is now a registered trademark.
A medical study announced on major news networks on October 15, 2002, stated that application of duct tape can be used as an effective treatment for warts. The number of uses to which it can be put had already been a source of jokes (some of them collected into books) for years.
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Duct tape."
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I have a full grown, semi-nude man bound with duct tape in my truck and I was trying to get out to the desert to bury him. How do I get to 5 South? (Jackass; writing credit: Donald Spoto; Eric Overmyer) If I had some duct tape, I could fix that. (MacGyver; writing credit: John Gorrie) | |
Clever | You are an engineer if you have used coat hangers and duct tape for something other than hanging coats and taping ducts. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Lies & Duct Tape P-Tex (1994) | |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
duct tape | 685 |
duct tape wart | 194 |
duct tape wallet | 130 |
duct tape bondage | 68 |
duct tape use | 38 |
make a duct tape wallet | 30 |
craft duct tape | 24 |
duct tape gag | 17 |
duct tape purse | 16 |
duct tape mummification | 16 |
colored duct tape | 13 |
clothes duct tape | 12 |
contest duct tape | 11 |
dress duct tape | 11 |
duct tape fashion | 10 |
duct tape product | 9 |
duct tape.com | 9 |
red green duct tape forever | 3 |
bound duct tape | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "duct tape"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Hungarian | szigetelőszalag (insulating tape). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | uctday apetay клейкая лента (adhesive tape, scotch tape). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-p-t-t-u" | |
-2 letters: catted, patted, putted, tauted, teacup, update. | |
-3 letters: acted, acute, adept, cadet, caped, caput, ducat, educt, epact, paced, pated, tacet, taped, taupe, tecta. | |
-4 letters: aced, aped, cade, cape, cate, cued, cute, dace, date, daut, duce, duct, duet, dupe, pace, pact, pate, peat, puce, putt, tace, tact, tape, tate, taut, teat, tepa. | |
-5 letters: ace, act, ape. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-p-t-t-u" | |
+2 letters: catapulted, punctuated. | |
+3 letters: capitulated. | |
+4 letters: unpunctuated. | |
+5 letters: recapitulated, sextuplicated, unanticipated. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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