Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word TAP
TAP
Definitions of TAP
- A tapering cylindrical pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask.
- A device used to dispense liquids.
- Liquor drawn through a tap; hence, a certain kind or quality of liquor.
- A place where liquor is drawn for drinking.
- A connection made to an electrical or fluid conductor without breaking it.
- An interception of communication by authority.
- To make a sharp noise.
- To put a new sole or heel on.
- A gentle or slight blow; a light rap; a pat.
- A piece of leather fastened upon the bottom of a boot or shoe in repairing or renewing the sole or heel.
- An Indian malarial fever.
- (transitive) To furnish with taps.
- (transitive) To draw off liquid from a vessel.
- (mechanics) A device used to cut an internal screw thread. (External screw threads are cut with a die.)
- A device used to listen in secretly on telephone calls. [from 20th c.]
- (medicine, informal) A procedure that removes fluid from a body cavity.
- (finance) The situation where a borrowing government authority issues bonds over a period of time, usually at a fixed price, with volumes sold on a particular day dependent on market conditions.
- (medicine, informal) To drain off fluid by paracentesis.
- To designate for some duty or for membership, as in 'a tap on the shoulder'. [from mid-20th c.]
- (slang, vulgar, transitive) To have sexual intercourse with.
- (combat sports) To submit to an opponent by tapping one's hand repeatedly.
- (transitive) To deplete, especially of a liquid via a tap; to tap out.
- (combat sports, transitive) To force (an opponent) to submit.
- (dance) Ellipsis of tap dance.
- (computing, graphical user interface) The act of touching a touch screen.
- (military) A signal, by drum or trumpet, for extinguishing all lights in soldiers' quarters and retiring to bed; usually given about a quarter of an hour after tattoo.
- (phonetics) A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound [
- Short for tap of work.
- Initialism of talk aloud protocol.
- Initialism of think aloud protocol.
- (advertising) Initialism of total audience package: an offering that includes ads broadcast during every part of the schedule.
- (software) Initialism of The Ada Project.
- (transitive) To exploit.
- (transitive) To place a listening or recording device on a telephone or wired connection. [from 19th c.]
- (transitive) To intercept a communication without authority.
- (transitive, mechanical) To cut an internal screw thread.
- (transitive, card games, board games) To turn or flip a card or playing piece to remind players that it has already been used that turn (by analogy to "tapping," in the sense of drawing on to the point of temporary exhaustion, the resources or abilities represented by the card).
- (transitive, informal) To cadge, borrow or beg.
- (transitive) To advance someone for a post or job, or for membership of a club.
- (transitive, slang) To arrest.
- (transitive) To strike lightly. [from early 13th c.]
- (transitive) To touch one's finger, foot, or other body parts on a surface (usually) repeatedly.
- (transitive, graphical user interface) To operate an electronic device (e.g. a mobile phone) by tapping a specific place on its (capacitive or other) touch screen.
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Examples of Using TAP in a Sentence
- He wrote and acted in the rock satire This Is Spinal Tap (1984), and later directed a string of satirical mockumentary films such as Waiting for Guffman (1996), Best in Show (2000), A Mighty Wind (2003), For Your Consideration (2006), and Mascots (2016).
- Center tap, a wire that is connected halfway along one of the windings of a transformer, inductor or a resistor.
- Tap dancing can also be a cappella, with no musical accompaniment; the sound of the taps is its own music.
- It became a fast kicking step, kicking the feet, both forward and backward and later done with a tap.
- Top Hat is a 1935 American musical screwball comedy film in which Fred Astaire plays an American tap dancer named Jerry Travers, who comes to London to star in a show produced by Horace Hardwick (Edward Everett Horton).
- He drew influences from many sources, including tap, classical dance, and the elevated style of Vernon and Irene Castle.
- A burette (also spelled as buret) is a graduated glass tube with a tap at one end, for delivering known volumes of a liquid, especially in titrations.
- The term originated in the 1960s but was popularized in the mid-1990s when This Is Spinal Tap director Rob Reiner used it in interviews to describe that film.
- This Is Spinal Tap (also known as This Is Spın̈al Tap: A Rockumentary by Martin Di Bergi) is a 1984 American mockumentary comedy film co-written and directed by Rob Reiner (in his feature directorial debut).
- He is also known for having collaborated with Christopher Guest acting in his films such as This Is Spinal Tap (1984), Best in Show (2000), A Mighty Wind (2003), and For Your Consideration (2006).
- While most of the towns in the surrounding San Fernando Valley agreed to annexation by Los Angeles in the 1910s, eager to tap the bountiful water supply provided by the newly opened Los Angeles Aqueduct, San Fernando's abundant groundwater supplies allowed it to remain a separate city.
- In December 2023, Osceola City Administrator Ty Wheeler urged residents to switch from using tap water to bottled water as extreme drought affected West Lake.
- Southampton was rated having the best tasting tap water in the country in 2008 by the National Rural Water Association.
- They were mostly farmers and in the beginning stages deprived of amenities such as electricity or tap water.
- Later drilling technology was employed by settlers to tap into the spring sources, and by 1900, 203 springs were flowing, some of which were tapped for carbon dioxide extraction, as well as mineral water.
- In 1951, the famed tap dancer Peg Leg Bates became the first African-American resort owner in the Catskills when he opened the Peg Leg Bates Country Club in Palentown, a hamlet in the northern end of the Kerhonkson Zip Code.
- It was incorporated on April 28, 1871, and in 1875, the state legislature granted investors the right to operate a rail line from Waxahachie Tap Railroad to Garrett, Texas, which greatly increased the population of Waxahachie.
- The settlement was first known as Big Sandy Switch because a stretch of the Texas and Pacific Railroad was built through the area and eventually intersected with a narrow-gauge railroad called the Tyler Tap.
- In June 2017, San Diego–based brewery Ballast Point opened their East Coast facility and Tap Room in the Botetourt Center at Greenfield.
- Bonney Lake was incorporated as a town on February 28, 1949, after the establishment of a co-op venture to bring electricity and tap water service to local residents.
- Sinks have a tap (faucet) that supplies hot and cold water and may include a spray feature to be used for faster rinsing.
- Salt built neat stone houses for his workers (much better than the slums of Bradford), wash-houses with tap water, bath-houses, a hospital and an institute for recreation and education, with a library, a reading room, a concert hall, billiard room, science laboratory and a gymnasium.
- It cooperated with Sabena on the route; the flight stopped in Brussels, and TAP allocated a certain number of seats to the airline on the segment between Brussels and Macau.
- Throughout elementary school, his mother enrolled him in children's community theaters and he performed in many community theater productions of top musicals, among them "Sound Of Music," "Showboat" and "Camelot" and got him in singing/voice and acting lessons by putting him in a performing arts academy where he also took dance lessons in classical ballet, tap, and jazz.
- Masanobu Fukuoka started his pioneering research work in this domain in 1938, and began publishing in the 1970s his Fukuokan philosophy of "do-nothing farming" or natural farming, which is now acknowledged by some as the tap root of the permaculture movement.
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