tape-record

[ teyp-ri-kawrd ]

verb (used with object)

1. to record (speech, music, etc.) on magnetic tape.

tape-record

verb

1. to make a tape recording (of)

Word History and Origins

Origin of tape-record¹

First recorded in 1945–50

Example Sentences

Because he found little traditional music around his home at the time, he would hitchhike or take a bus over the River Shannon to County Clare, where he would tape-record local folk singers and musicians and copy them at home.

From Washington Post

With Beckett, she was forbidden to tape-record or take notes on their conversations; not so with Beauvoir, who evidently felt her every word was destined for posterity.

From New York Times

Knowing of threats to his life, Milk sat down in the back room of his Castro Street camera store just 10 days after he was elected in 1977 to tape-record his will.

From Los Angeles Times

I would hitchhike up and down College Avenue and then I would tape-record people inside the car, what they thought of me, what it was like living there.

From The New Yorker

But according to historian Tim Naftali, a former director of the Nixon Presidential Library, he did tape-record those conversations—like Kennedy and Johnson, without the other party knowing it—and those tapes have been declassified.

From Slate

Related Words

• copy
• document
• file
• list
• log
• mark
• post
• register
• report
• videotape