tap

Pronunciation

• IPA: /tæp/, [tʰæp]
• (South Wales) IPA: /tɐːp/

Noun

tap (plural taps)

1. A tapering cylindrical pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask.
   • Synonyms: spigot, spile
2. A device used to dispense liquids.
   • Synonyms: faucet, handle, spigot, spout
   • We don't have bottled water; you'll have to get it from the tap.
3. Liquor drawn through a tap; hence, a certain kind or quality of liquor.
   • a liquor of the same tap
4. A place where liquor is drawn for drinking.
   • Synonyms: taproom, bar
5. (mechanics) A device used to cut an internal screw thread. (External screw threads are cut with a die.)
   • We drilled a hole and then cut the threads with the proper tap to match the valve's thread.
6. A connection made to an electrical or fluid conductor without breaking it.
   • The system was barely keeping pressure due to all of the ill-advised taps along its length.
7. An interception of communication by authority.
8. A device used to listen in secretly on telephone calls.
9. (medicine, informal) A procedure that removes fluid from a body cavity.
   • Synonym: paracentesis
   • abdominal tap
   • pleural tap
   • spinal tap
10. (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.
    • tap issue; a bond tap

Verb

tap (third-person singular simple present taps, present participle tapping, simple past and past participle tapped)

1. To furnish with taps.
   • If we tap the maple trees, we can get maple syrup!
2. To draw off liquid from a vessel.
   • He tapped a new barrel of beer.
3. To deplete, especially of a liquid via a tap; to tap out.
4. To exploit.
   • Businesses are trying to tap the youth market.
5. To place a listening or recording device on a telephone or wired connection.
   • They can't tap the phone without a warrant.
6. To intercept a communication without authority.
   • Synonym: eavesdrop
   • He was known to tap cable television.
7. (mechanical) To cut an internal screw thread.
   • Tap an M3 thread all the way through the hole.
8. (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).
9. (informal) To cadge, borrow or beg.
   • I tried to tap a cigarette off him, but he wouldn't give me one.
10. (medicine, informal) To drain off fluid by paracentesis.
11. To advance someone for a post or job, or for membership of a club.
    • Trump interviewed Mueller for FBI job day before he was tapped for special counsel.

Verb

tap (third-person singular simple present taps, present participle tapping, simple past and past participle tapped)

1. To strike lightly.
   • She tapped him on the shoulder to get his attention.
2. To touch one's finger, foot, or other body parts on a surface (usually) repeatedly.
   • Synonyms: hit, patter, pound, rap, strike; see also hit
   • He was so nervous he began to tap his fingers on the table.
   • She tapped her companion on the back to indicate that she was ready to go.
   • Lydia tapped Jim on the shoulder to get his attention.
3. To make a sharp noise.
   • Synonyms: hit, bang, ping, rap
   • The tree, swaying in the breeze, began to tap on the window pane.
4. (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.
   • Coordinate term: click
5. To designate for some duty or for membership, as in 'a tap on the shoulder'.
6. (slang, vulgar, transitive) To have sexual intercourse with.
   • Synonyms: go to bed with, hit, sleep with, wap; see also copulate with
   • I would tap that hot girl over there.
   • I'd tap that.
7. (combat sports) To submit to an opponent by tapping one's hand repeatedly.
   • Synonym: tap out
8. (combat sports, transitive) To force (an opponent) to submit.
   • Synonym: tap out
9. To put a new sole or heel on.
   • to tap shoes

Noun

tap (plural taps)

1. A gentle or slight blow; a light rap; a pat.
   • When Steve felt a tap on his shoulder, he turned around.
2. (dance) Ellipsis of tap dance.
3. (computing, graphical user interface) The act of touching a touch screen.
   • Coordinate term: click
4. A piece of leather fastened upon the bottom of a boot or shoe in repairing or renewing the sole or heel.
   • Synonym: heeltap
5. (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.
6. (phonetics) A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound [ɾ] in the standard American English pronunciation of body.
   • Synonym: flap
7. Short for tap of work.

Noun

tap

1. An Indian malarial fever.

Anagrams

• APT, ATP, PAT, PTA, Pat, TPA, ap't, apt, apt., pat

Noun

tap

1. struck, hit

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA: /ˈtap/

Noun

tap m (plural taps)

1. tap, spigot, plug
2. (castells) A casteller inserted into an empty space in a pinya to make it more compact

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈtap/, [ˈtˢɑb̥]

Noun

tap c (singular definite tappen, plural indefinite tappe or tapper)

1. (mechanics) protruding component of a device
2. (anatomy) cone cell
3. (informal) penis
4. (erotic literature) clitoris

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈtap/, [ˈtˢɑb̥]

Noun

tap c (singular definite tap'en, plural indefinite tap'er)

1. member of technical and administrative staff

Verb

tap

1. imperative of tappe

Pronunciation

• IPA: /tɑp/
• Hyphenation: tap

Noun

tap m (plural tappen, diminutive tapje n)

1. tap

Pronunciation

• IPA: /tʰaːp/

Noun

tap n (genitive singular taps, nominative plural töp)

1. loss, damage
   • Búðin er rekin með tapi.

     • The store is run at a loss.

Noun

tap

1. (Classical K'iche') crab

Pronunciation

• IPA: /tap/

Verb

tap

1. to make something burn
2. to make something stick

Noun

tap anim (plural tapiyik/tapihik, possessed 'tahtapiyil/'tahtapimol/'tapiyil, locative tapik/tapiyik, diminutive tapossis)

1. bow

Verb

tap

1. Alternative form of tappen (“to touch gently”)

Pronunciation

• IPA: /tɑːp/

Noun

tap n (definite singular tapet, indefinite plural tap, definite plural tapa or tapene)

1. (a) loss

Pronunciation

• IPA: /tɑːp/

Noun

tap n (definite singular tapet, indefinite plural tap, definite plural tapa)

1. (a) loss, defeat

Pronunciation

• IPA: /tap/

Adverb

tap (Perso-Arabic spelling تپ)

1. Co-lexicalized intensifier

Verb

tap

1. to bury

Noun

tap m (uncountable)

1. tap, tap dancing