Étape /(?)/

É·tape

Étape

n.
  1. A public storehouse.
  2. Supplies issued to troops on the march; (Mil.)
  3. In Russia, a prison or stockade for the confinement of prisoners in transit.

Tape

n.
  1. A narrow fillet or band of cotton or linen; a narrow woven fabric used for strings and the like; as, curtains tied with tape.
  2. A tapeline; also, a metallic ribbon so marked as to serve as a tapeline; as, a steel tape.

Phrases & Compounds
Red tape
See under Red.
Tape grass
a plant (Vallisneria spiralis) with long ribbonlike leaves, growing in fresh or brackish water; -- called also fresh-water eelgrass, and, in Maryland, wild celery.
Tape needle
See Bodkin, n., 4.

Tape

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Taped; p. pr. & vb. n. Taping

  1. To furnish with tape; to fasten, tie, bind, or the like, with tape; (Elec.)
  2. 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.