duct tape

English

Duct tape

Etymology

Possibly a corruption of duck tape (“thick, canvas-like tape”), due to the relative obscurity of the term duck (“woven fabric, canvas”), influenced by the use of the tape to join heating and air conditioning duct work. See also the etymology at duck tape.

Noun

duct tape (countable and uncountable, plural duct tapes)

A generally gray waterproof adhesive tape used for many purposes.
Son, it's time you learned to use the family duct tape.

Translations

multipurpose waterproof tape

Arabic: شَرِيط لَاصِق‎ m (šarīṭ lāṣiq)
Hijazi Arabic: شَطَرْطون‎ m (šaṭarṭōn)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 牛皮膠紙, 牛皮胶纸 (ngau⁴pei⁴ gaau¹zi²)

Mandarin: 不透明膠帶, 不透明胶带 (bútòumíng jiāodài), 塑膠膠帶, 塑胶胶带 (sùjiāo jiāodài), 布基膠帶, 布基胶带 (bùjī jiāodài)
Danish: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: ilmastointiteippi (fi)

French: duct tape (fr) m
German: Panzerband n
Italian: nastro adesivo m
Portuguese: silver tape f
Russian: скотч (ru) m (skotch)
Spanish: cinta americana f, cinta plateada f
Swedish: vävtejp c, silvertejp c

Verb

duct tape

(transitive) To use duct tape in order to tape one object to another.
The government tells us we can protect against a chemical attack by duct taping the windows.

Translations

use duct tape

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Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

Finnish: teipata (ilmastointiteipillä)
German: please add this translation if you can
Russian: please add this translation if you can

References

duct tape on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
duct tape at OneLook Dictionary Search

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