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Definition tap
Etymology 1
From Middle English tappe, from Old English tæppa, from Proto-Germanic *tappô. The verb is from Middle English tappen, from Old English tæppian, from Proto-Germanic *tapp?n?, from the noun.
Noun
tap (plural taps)
- A tapering cylindrical pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask; a spigot.
- 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 taproom; a bar.
- (mechanics) A device used to cut an internal screw thread. (External screw threads are cut with a die.)
- A connection made to an electrical or fluid conductor without breaking it.
- An interception of communication by authority.
- A device used to listen in secretly on telephone calls. [from 20th c.]
- (medicine, informal) A procedure that removes fluid from a body cavity; paracentesis.
Verb
tap (third-person singular simple present taps, present participle tapping, simple past and past participle tapped)
- To furnish with taps.
- To draw off liquid from a vessel.
- To deplete, especially of a liquid via a tap; to tap out.
- To exploit.
- To place a listening or recording device on a telephone or wired connection. [from 19th c.]
- To intercept a communication without authority.
- (mechanical) To cut an internal screw thread.
- (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).
- (informal) To cadge, borrow or beg.
- (medicine, informal) To drain off fluid by paracentesis.
Etymology 2
From Middle English tappen, teppen, from Old French tapper, taper (“to tap”), of Germanic origin, from Old Frankish *tapp?n, *dabb?n (“to strike”) or from Middle Low German tappen, tapen ("to tap, rap, strike"); both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *dab- (“to strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?Ab?- (“to beat, strike, stun, be speechless”). Related to German tappen (“to grope, fumble”), Icelandic tappa, tapsa, tæpta (“to tap”). Related to dab.
Verb
tap (third-person singular simple present taps, present participle tapping, simple past and past participle tapped)
- To strike lightly. [from early 13th c.]
- To touch one's finger, foot, or other body parts on a surface (usually) repeatedly.
- To make a sharp noise.
- To operate an electronic device (e.g. a mobile phone) by tapping a specific place on its (capacitive or other) touch screen.
- 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.
- (combat sports, transitive) To force (an opponent) to submit.
- To put a new sole or heel on.
Noun
tap (plural taps)
- A gentle or slight blow; a light rap; a pat.
- tap dance
- (computing) The act of touching a touch screen.
- A piece of leather fastened upon the bottom of a boot or shoe in repairing or renewing the sole or heel; a heeltap.
- (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 [?] in the standard American English pronunciation of body.
Etymology 3
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