tapping
Noun
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Noun
tapping (plural tappings)
- An act of making a light hit or strike against something.
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 20
- As he was speaking there was a soft tapping at the door. I went over and opened it […]
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 20
- (music) A guitar technique in which the strings are tapped against the fingerboard
- The process by which a resource is tapped or exploited.
- 1938, Paul Burke Jacobs, Harry Paul Newton, Motor Fuels from Farm Products (page 99)
- Competitive tappings of a common oil pool can lead only to waste and overproduction, unless rigidly regulated […]
- 1938, Paul Burke Jacobs, Harry Paul Newton, Motor Fuels from Farm Products (page 99)
- present participle of tap#English|tap
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