English
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
  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#Noun|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. [from 20th c.]
  9. (medicine, informal) A procedure that removes fluid from a body cavity.
    Synonyms: paracentesis
    abdominal tap
    pleural tap
    spinal tap
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  • Russian: прослушивание
Verb

tap (taps, present participle tapping; 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. [from 19th c.]
    They can't tap the phone without a warrant.
  6. To intercept a communication without authority.
    Synonyms: 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.
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tap (taps, present participle tapping; past and past participle tapped)

  1. To strike lightly. [from early 13th c.]
    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, Thesaurus: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.
    cot en
  5. To designate for some duty or for membership, as in 'a tap on the shoulder'. [from mid-20th c.]
  6. (slang, vulgar, transitive) To have sexual intercourse with.
    Synonyms: go to bed with, hit, sleep with, wap, Thesaurus: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.
    Synonyms: tap out
  8. (combat sports, transitive) To force (an opponent) to submit.
    Synonyms: tap out
  9. To put a new sole or heel on.
    to tap shoes
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  • Portuguese: bater
  • Spanish: palmear
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#English|tap dance.
  3. (computing, graphical user interface) The act of touching a touch screen.
    cot en
  4. A piece of leather fastened upon the bottom of a boot or shoe in repairing or renewing the sole or heel.
    Synonyms: 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.
    Synonyms: flap
Translations
  • Russian: нажатие
  • Spanish: toque
Noun

tap

  1. An Indian malarial fever.
TAP
Noun

tap

  1. Initialism of talk aloud protocol
  2. Initialism of think aloud protocol
  3. (advertising) Initialism of total audience package: an offering that includes ads broadcast during every part of the schedule.
Proper noun
  1. (software) Initialism of The Ada Project


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