caulking vs tape

caulking

noun
  • A sealing material used to seal joints between heterogeneous materials in many kinds of construction and manufacture. 

tape

noun
  • Flexible material in a roll with a sticky surface on one or both sides; adhesive tape. 

  • Finishing tape, stretched across a track to mark the end of a race. 

  • Thin and flat paper, plastic or similar flexible material, usually produced in the form of a roll. 

  • The series of prices at which a financial instrument trades. 

  • Any video or audio recording, regardless of the method used to produce it. 

  • An unthinking, patterned response triggered by a particular stimulus. 

  • Magnetic or optical recording media in a roll; videotape or audio tape. 

  • The wrapping of the primary puck-handling surface of a hockey stick 

  • A strong flexible band rotating on pulleys for directing the sheets in a printing machine. 

verb
  • To record, originally onto magnetic tape. 

  • To bind with adhesive tape. 

  • To understand, figure out. 

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