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Definitions: Tapper |
TapperNoun1. A tavern keeper who taps kegs or casks. 2. Someone who wiretaps a telephone or telegraph wire. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tapper" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references) |
"Tapper" is a common misspelling or typo for: dipper, taper, tapirs, temper, tipped, tippet, tripper. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Occupations | Taps refining furnaces or reduction pots by one of following methods to pour molten slag or nonferrous metal, such as copper or aluminum, into molds, crucibles, or ladles: (1) Punches clay plug from taphole, using steel rod, to allow molten metal to flow into molds. Molds clay plugs and inserts them into taphole to stop flow of metal, using rod, or builds clay-retaining wall over taphole. Chips or burns away solidified slag and metal from taphole, using chisel-edged bar, oxygen lance, or by short-circuiting current from $T3bus bar$T1 to taphole with steel rod. (2) Signals OVERHEAD CRANE OPERATOR (any industry) 921.663-010 to place pouring crucible near pot. Breaks hole in crust of electrolytic bath, using crowbar. Clamps siphon lid on crucible, and inserts other end of siphon into hole. Attaches airhose to siphon, and turns valve to siphon molten metal into crucible. Lowers anode into bath, using pulley to maintain its position beneath bath surface. (references) |
| Tends equipment that taps (drains) beer storage tanks to maintain continuous flow of beer to filtering machine: Couples hose lines to pumps, tanks, and filtering machine. Observes meters and turns valves on gas tank to admit specified amounts of carbon dioxide into storage tank to create effervescence in beer, and to apply external pressure on tank to counteract internal stress. Observes gauge to determine when to turn valves to switch from empty to full tank. Opens valve to release counter pressure on empty tanks and uncouples hoses. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The cabinets were designed to look like barss—they have a brass rail and drink holders. The controller is designed to look like the handles in a real pub.
Several variants of the game were released, with similar gameplay but different graphics and music. The first was with Budweiser branding, follwed in 1984 by Root Beer Tapper (for locations with children). There are also some boards with Suntory branding, supposedly made by Sega, which they deny.
The programming and art style are almost identical to a later game called Timber.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Tapper."
Synonyms: TapperSynonyms: phone tapper (n), tapster (n), wiretapper (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Tapper |
| English words defined with "tapper": phone tapper ♦ wood tapper. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "tapper": bent-shank tapper tap ♦ chute tapper, CUPOLA TAPPER ♦ TAPPER II, TAPPER OPERATOR, TAPPER SUPERVISOR, TAPPER, BALANCE-WHEEL SCREW HOLE, TAPPER, BIT, TAPPER, HAND, TAPPER, SHANK. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Tapper" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Danish (brave, courageous, valiant), Norwegian (brave), Swedish (brave, courageous, gallant, stout, stouthearted, valiant, valorous). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Root Beer Tapper (1984) Tapper (1984) | |
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| "Tapper" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 80.65% of the time. "Tapper" is used about 31 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 80.65% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Noun (singular) | 19.35% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 31 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "tapper" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Tapper | Last name | 1,000 | 10,019 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "tapper": phone tapper ♦ rubber tapper ♦ wire tapper ♦ wood tapper. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
beer root tapper | 193 |
tapper | 65 |
beer tapper | 21 |
annelie tapper | 14 |
game tapper | 8 |
keg tapper | 5 |
hand tapper | 4 |
jake tapper | 4 |
beer game root tapper | 3 |
cary hoffman tapper | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tapper"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | Çelës Telegrafik. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | Профилна Шайба, Палец (Trunnion), Телеграфен Ключ. (various references) | |
Chinese | 音"器. (various references) | |
Danish | automatsnittap med bøjet skaft (bent-shank tapper tap, nut tap with curved shank). (various references) | |
Dutch | moerentap met gebogen schacht (bent-shank tapper tap, nut tap with curved shank), automaat-moerentap (bent-shank tapper tap, nut tap with curved shank). (various references) | |
Farsi | توپی گذار, دق الباب کننده . (various references) | |
Finnish | käyrävartinen mutterikierretappi (bent-shank tapper tap, nut tap with curved shank). (various references) | |
French | taraud enfilade (bent-shank tapper tap, nut tap with curved shank). (various references) | |
German | Muttergewindebohrer mit gebogenem Schaft (bent-shank tapper tap, nut tap with curved shank). (various references) | |
Greek | σπειροτόμος περικοχλίων με κεκαμένο στέλεχος (bent-shank tapper tap, nut tap with curved shank). (various references) | |
Hungarian | Menetvágó (threader). (various references) | |
Indonesian | penyadap. (various references) | |
Italian | battitore (batsman, beater, cylinder, drum, server, threshing drum). (various references) | |
Manx | crankeyder (knocker). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | appertay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | Transmissor Telegráfico. (various references) | |
Russian | Телеграфный Ключ. (various references) | |
Turkish | telefonu dinleyen kimse (wire tapper). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | Manip điện báo. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tapper": tappers. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "tapper": wiretapper. (additional references) | |
Words containing "tapper": wiretappers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tapper" (pronounced ta"per) |
| 3 | -a" p er | Capper, clapper, dapper, flapper, Knapper, Napper, rapper, Sapper, snapper, wrapper. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-p-p-r-t" | |
-1 letter: apter, paper, pater, peart, prate, taper. | |
-2 letters: aper, pare, part, pate, pear, peat, perp, pert, prat, prep, rape, rapt, rate, reap, repp, tape, tare, tarp, tear, tepa, trap. | |
-3 letters: ape, apt, are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, eta, pap, par, pat, pea, pep, per, pet, rap, rat, rep, ret, tae, tap, tar, tea. | |
-4 letters: ae, ar, at, er, et, pa, pe, re, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-p-p-r-t" | |
+1 letter: parapet, periapt, pretape, tappers, trapped, trapper. | |
+2 letters: apparent, parapets, periapts, preadapt, preadopt, prepaste, preplant, prestamp, pretaped, pretapes, strapped, strapper, tarpaper, trappean, trappers, trappose. | |
+3 letters: appertain, appetiser, appetizer, applecart, approbate, cartopper, catnapper, crappiest, dapperest, entrapped, notepaper, papeterie, parapeted, peripatus, periplast, perpetual, preadapts, preadopts, prepasted, prepastes, preputial, prestamps, pretaping, propagate, reappoint, spaceport, strappers, suppurate, tarpapers, upperpart. | |
+4 letters: apostrophe, apparently, appertains, appetisers, appetizers, applecarts, appreciate, apprentice, approbated, approbates, cartoppers, catnappers, entrapping, inapparent, notepapers, papeteries, papistries, participle, perceptual, peripeteia, periplasts, perpetrate, perpetuate, preadapted, preadopted, prenuptial, preparator, prepasting, prepayment, prestamped, propagated, propagates, propellant, propionate, propitiate, propraetor, rapporteur, reappoints, repopulate, saprophyte, scrappiest, spaceports, stepparent, strippable, supplanter, suppurated, suppurates, tropopause, unapparent, unstrapped, upperparts, wastepaper, wiretapped, wiretapper. | |
+5 letters: apostrophes, apparatuses, appertained, apportioned, appreciated, appreciates, appreciator, apprenticed, apprentices, appropriate, approximate, appurtenant, copperplate, depauperate, dipterocarp, epigraphist, expropriate, giftwrapped, interlapped, lepidoptera, leptospiral, livetrapped, nephropathy, pamphleteer, paperweight, paratrooper, participate, participles, partnership, peripatetic, peripatuses, peripeteias, perpetrated, perpetrates, perpetrator, perpetually, perpetuated, perpetuates, perpetuator, petrography, plecopteran, praetorship, preadapting, preadaptive, preadopting, precipitant, precipitate, preparation, preparative, preparators, preparatory, prepayments, preplanting, prepubertal, prestamping, presynaptic, primateship, propagative, propellants, prophetical, propionates, propitiated, propitiates, propraetors, proprietary, protoplanet, purpleheart, rapporteurs, reappointed, reapportion, repopulated, repopulates, saprophytes, spheroplast, stepparents, strappadoes, supplanters, supportable, suppressant, suppurative, tamperproof, topographer, transhipped, tropopauses, tryptophane, typographed, typographer, wastepapers, wiretappers, wiretapping. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 61 70 70 65 72 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .- .--. .--. . .-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100001 01110000 01110000 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T a p p e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0061 0070 0070 0065 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)546782827184 |
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