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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

tape out en · VERB

Meanings

  1. To measure out (a piece of land) so as to be able to accurately fire upon it.
    • Tracks made of wooden slabs fastened together were the only roads by which men and pack-mules could cross this quagmire, and each of these ways became taped out by the enemy's artillery, and very perilous. 1918, Philip Gibbs, From Bapaume to Passchendaele, on the western front, 1917, G.H. Doran Co., page 25:
  2. To complete the design of an integrated circuit so that the photomask can be sent out for fabrication.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
tapes out Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
taping out Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
taped out Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
taped out Tense=Past lexicographic

Deriveds

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