"tape out" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tapes out",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taping out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taped out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taped out",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "tape out (third-person singular simple present tapes out, present participle taping out, simple past and past participle taped out)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Artillery",
          "orig": "en:Artillery",
          "parents": [
            "Weapons",
            "Hunting",
            "Military",
            "Tools",
            "Human activity",
            "Society",
            "Technology",
            "Human behaviour",
            "All topics",
            "Human",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "62 38",
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "63 37",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (out)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "_dis1": "70 30",
          "tags": [
            "noun"
          ],
          "word": "tapeout"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1918, Philip Gibbs, From Bapaume to Passchendaele, on the western front, 1917, G.H. Doran Co., page 25",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To measure out (a piece of land) so as to be able to accurately fire upon it."
      ],
      "id": "en-tape_out-en-verb-gHBi0ieu",
      "links": [
        [
          "weaponry",
          "weaponry"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(weaponry) To measure out (a piece of land) so as to be able to accurately fire upon it."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "engineering",
        "government",
        "military",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "politics",
        "tools",
        "war",
        "weaponry"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Electronics",
          "orig": "en:Electronics",
          "parents": [
            "Technology",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To complete the design of an integrated circuit so that the photomask can be sent out for fabrication."
      ],
      "id": "en-tape_out-en-verb-Df~v1rEt",
      "links": [
        [
          "electronics",
          "electronics"
        ],
        [
          "integrated circuit",
          "integrated circuit"
        ],
        [
          "photomask",
          "photomask"
        ],
        [
          "fabrication",
          "fabrication"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(electronics) To complete the design of an integrated circuit so that the photomask can be sent out for fabrication."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "electrical-engineering",
        "electricity",
        "electromagnetism",
        "electronics",
        "energy",
        "engineering",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "physics"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tape out"
}

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    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs with particle (out)",
    "English verbs"
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  "derived": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "noun"
      ],
      "word": "tapeout"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tapes out",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taping out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taped out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taped out",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "tape out (third-person singular simple present tapes out, present participle taping out, simple past and past participle taped out)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Artillery"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1918, Philip Gibbs, From Bapaume to Passchendaele, on the western front, 1917, G.H. Doran Co., page 25",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To measure out (a piece of land) so as to be able to accurately fire upon it."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "weaponry",
          "weaponry"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(weaponry) To measure out (a piece of land) so as to be able to accurately fire upon it."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "engineering",
        "government",
        "military",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "politics",
        "tools",
        "war",
        "weaponry"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Electronics"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To complete the design of an integrated circuit so that the photomask can be sent out for fabrication."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "electronics",
          "electronics"
        ],
        [
          "integrated circuit",
          "integrated circuit"
        ],
        [
          "photomask",
          "photomask"
        ],
        [
          "fabrication",
          "fabrication"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(electronics) To complete the design of an integrated circuit so that the photomask can be sent out for fabrication."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "electrical-engineering",
        "electricity",
        "electromagnetism",
        "electronics",
        "energy",
        "engineering",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "physics"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tape out"
}