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Tap

Definition: Tap

Tap

Noun

1. The sound made by a gentle blow.

2. A faucet for drawing water from a pipe or cask.

3. A gentle blow.

4. A small metal plate that attaches to the toe or heel of a shoe (as in tap dancing).

5. A tool for cutting female (internal) screw threads.

6. A plug for a bunghole in a cask.

7. A light touch or stroke.

Verb

1. Cut a female screw thread with a tap.

2. Draw from or dip into to get something; "tap one's memory"; "tap a source of money".

3. Strike lightly; "He tapped me on the shoulder".

4. Draw from; make good use of (resources).

5. Tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information; "The FBI was tapping the phone line of the suspected spy"; "Is this hotel room bugged?".

6. Furnish with a tap or spout, so as to be able to draw liquid from it; "tap a cask of wine".

7. Make light, repeated taps on a surface; "he was tapping his fingers on the table impatiently".

8. Walk with a tapping sound.

9. Dance and make rhythmic clicking sounds by means of metal plates nailed to the sole of the dance shoes; "Glover tapdances better than anybody".

10. : draw (liquor) from a tap; "tap beer in a bar".

11. : pierce in order to draw a liquid from; "tap a maple tree for its syrup"; "tap a keg of beer".

12. : make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "tap" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Tap

DomainDefinition

Computing

TAP Telocator Alphanumeric Protocol tap hit. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Industry

Outer soles which extend from the toe to the arch. Source: European Union. (references)

Electrical Engineering

In cable TV systems, a device that diverts a very small part of the television signal energy to the subscriber's drop line, from the feeder cable. Source: European Union. (references)
 The connection made at some intermediate point in a winding. Source: European Union. (references)

Finance

Stock exchange jargon for a stock where there is a continuous supply of sellers, thus keeping the price lower than it would otherwise be. Source: European Union. (references)

Mechanical Engineering

A manually operated device fitted to the end of a pipe in a fluid supply system for the purpose of drawing off quantities of the fluid. Source: European Union. (references)

Metallurgy

The amount of molten metal withdrawn from the melting equipment while the outlet remains open. Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

A. To cut or bore into old workings or water-bearing strata for the purpose of proving or extracting gas or water b. To intersect with a borehole and withdraw or drain the contained liquid as water from a water-bearing formation or from underground workings c. To drive one passageway into another d. To win coal in a new district e. A threaded cone-shaped fishing tool. It may be either an inside or an outside tap, depending on whether the tap fits into or over the outside of a piece being fished. Syn:tapered tap f. A quantity of a liquid, as molten metal from a furnace, run out at one time g. To drain a furnace. (references)

Personal Care & Hotels

A device to isolate the gas supply to the various burners and to adjust their rate during use. Source: European Union. (references)

Slang

Verb. Source: Tap is to hit something quickly and fairly hard, to get someone's attention. Definition: Having sexual intercourse. Context: To tap is the way of saying you are going to get a female to have sexual intercourse with that person. It can be used in a future tense but most of the time it is used in past tense. The word never is used in the present tense. Social Source: Teenage skating group from Los Angeles. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references)

Slang in 1811

TAP. A gentle blow. A tap on the shoulder;-an-arrest. To tap a girl; to be the first seducer: in allusion to a beer barrel. To tap a guinea; to get it changed. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: GAAP

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

GAAP is the acronym for Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, there are two sets of principles, one for the United States and the other for the United Kingdom.

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Gaap

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

In demonology Gaap is a mighty Prince and Great President of Hell, commanding sixty-six legions of demons. He is, according to The Lesser Key of Solomon the king and prince of the southern region of Hell and Earth, and according to Pseudomonarchia Daemonum the king of the western region and as mighty as Beleth, but for both he is the guide of the four kings (being the others Ziminiar, Corson and Amaymon, (although some translations of The Lesser Key of Solomon consider Belial, Beleth, Asmodai and Gaap, not giving detail on the cardinal point they rule). He is said to be better conjured to appear when the Sun is in a southern zodiacal sign.

Gaap teaches Philosophy and all liberal sciences, can cause love or hate and make men insensible and invisible, deliver familiars out of the custody of other magicians, teaches how to consecrate those things that belong to the dominion of Amaymon his king (there is hear a contradiction, see above), gives true answers concerning past, present and future, and can carry and re-carry men and thing speedily from one nation to another at the conjurer's will. According to a few authors he can make men ignorant.

According to Pseudomonarchia Daemonum certain necromancerss honour him with sacrifices and burning offerings.

He is depicted in human shape.

Other spellings: Goap, Tap.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Gaap."

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Tap

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

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Tap dance

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Tap dance was born in the 19th century. It is most developed in the United States but is popular all around the world.

Its evolutionary grandparents may well have been:

  1. Spanish flamenco, where nails are hammered into the front part of the dancers' shoes so that the rhythm of their steps can be heard
  2. Clog dancing, for example from Lancashire, where there may well be no accompanying music, just the noise of the shoes
  3. African welly boot dance.
  4. African dance to drum rhythms.

The performer in tap dancing is both dancer and percussive musician.

History

Tap dance began in the 1830s in the Five Points neighborhood of New York City as a fusion of the African Shuffle and Irish, Scottish, and English step dances, most of all the Irish jig. Dancers from different immigrant groups would get together to compete and show off their best moves. As the dances fused, a new American style emerged.

Tap flourished in the U.S. from 1900 to 1955, when it was the main performance dance of Vaudeville and Broadway. Vaudeville was the inexpensive entertainment before television and it employed droves of skilled tap dancers. Many big bands employed tap dances as part of their show. Every city in the U.S. had amateur street tap performers. At the time, tap dance was also called jazz dance, because jazz was the music that tap dancers performed with.

In the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, the best tap dancers moved from Vaudeville to the movies and television.

In the 1950s, the style of entertainment changed. Jazz music and tap dance declined, while rock and roll music and the new jazz dance emerged. What is now called jazz dance evolved out of tap dance, so many of the moves are the same. But, jazz evolved to become a new form.

Famous tap dancers

See also

Dance - Jazz dance

External links

All About Tap Dance: A Hoofer's Notebook
Tap Dance Homepage

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Tap dance."

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Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline (TAP) is a proposed natural gas pipeline, being developed by the Asian Development Bank. The pipeline will transport natural gas, from the Caspian Sea, through Afghanistan, to Pakistan and the Indian Ocean. The Afghani government is expected to receive 8% of the project's revenue. TAP will be constructed alongside the highway running from Herat to Kandahar. The cost of this international infrastructure is estimated at US$3 billion. Proponents of the project see it as a modern continuation of the "Silk Road".

See also: Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS)

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline."

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Valve

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A valve is a mechanical device that regulates the flow of fluids (either gases and liquids) by opening, closing, or partially obstructing various passageways.

There are a number of names for particular type of valve:

A valve doesn't necessarily mean a man-made device; there are several valves inside the human body, for instance in the heart or in veins.

Because their effect on a flow of electrons is analogous to the fluid devices, the electronic devices known in the US as "vacuum tubes" are called "thermionic valves" in Britain.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Valve."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Tap

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

TAP

EnglishTemporary Assignment ProgramN/A

TAP

FrenchTraitement automatique de la paroleComputing

TAP

GermanTerminal-Anpassungs-ProzessorComputing

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Tap

Synonyms: dab (n), hydrant (n), pat (n), spigot (n), strike (n), water faucet (n), water tap (n), beg (v), bug (v), exploit (v), intercept (v), knock (v), pink (v), rap (v), solicit (v), tapdance (v), wiretap (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Tap

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Amusement

Entertainer, showman, showgirl; dancer, tap dancer, song-and-dance man; vaudeville act; singer; musician.

Egress

Outlet, vent, spout, tap, sluice, floodgate; pore; vomitory, outgate, sally port; way out; mouth, door; (opening); path; (way); conduit; airpipe.

Ejection

Verb: give exit, give vent to; let out, give out, pour out, squeeze out, send out; dispatch, despatch; exhale, excern, excrete; embogue; secrete, secern; extravasate, shed, void, evacuation; emit; open the sluices, open the floodgates; turn on the tap; extrude, detrude; effuse, spend, expend; pour forth; squirt, spirt, spurt, spill, slop; perspire; (exude); breathe, blow; (wind).

Tap, draw off; bale out, lade out; let blood, broach.

Impulse

Strike, knock, hit, tap, rap, slap, flap, dab, pat, thump, beat, blow, bang, slam, dash; punch, thwack, whack; hit hard, strike hard; swap, batter, dowse, baste; pelt, patter, buffet, belabor; fetch one a blow; poke at, pink, lunge, yerk; kick, calcitrate; butt, strike at; (attack); whip c. (punish).

Blow, dint, stroke, knock, tap, rap, slap, smack, pat, dab; fillip; slam, bang; hit, whack, thwack; cuff; squash, dowse, swap, whap, punch, thump, pelt, kick, punce, calcitration; ruade; arietation; cut, thrust, lunge, yerk; carom, carrom, clip, jab, plug, sidewinder, sidewipe, sideswipe.

Opening

Way, path; thoroughfare; channel; passage, passageway; tube, pipe; water pipe; air pipe; vessel, tubule, canal, gut, fistula; adjutage, ajutage; ostium; smokestack; chimney, flue, tap, funnel, gully, tunnel, main; mine, pit, adit, shaft; gallery.

Perforate, pierce, empierce, tap, bore, drill; mine; (scoop out); tunnel; transpierce, transfix; enfilade, impale, spike, spear, gore, spit, stab, pink, puncture, lance, stick, prick, riddle, punch; stave in.

Stopper

Noun: stopper, stopple; plug, cork, bung, spike, spill, tap; rammer; ram, ramrod; piston; stop-gap; wadding, stuffing, padding, stopping, dossil, pledget, tompion, tourniquet.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Tap

English words defined with "tap": Astaireballottement, blowball, Bolt and nut, buck-and-wing, bug, buret, burettedandelionFloss hole, Flowing furnace, Fred Astaireinterceptjump ballknee jerk, knee-jerk reflexMaster tapOn tappatellar reflex, percuss, Plug tapsoft-shoe, soft-shoe dancing, soft-shoe shuffletap dance, tap wrench, tappet, tit for tatwiretap. (references)
Specialty definitions using "tap": Arents tap, ASSEMBLER I, assembler-adjusterbar-machine operator, production, bench die maker, bench-boring-machine operator, bent-shank tapper tap, BLAST-FURNACE KEEPER, BLOCKER I, bore hole, BORING-MACHINE OPERATOR, bott, box tapCASTING INSPECTOR, casting tester, CELL COVERER, chasing leader, Claret Jug, clay gun, Cock and Bottle, Cock apace, cylinder-valve repairerdie collar, die maker, DIE MAKER, BENCH, STAMPING, die nipple, directional coupler, dispensing container, DRILL PRESS TENDER, DRILLER, HAND, driller, portableFASTENER TECHNOLOGIST, fat electrons, final inspector, First Draw, FIRST HELPER, flow prover, FRONT-SIGHT ATTACHERGLUCOSE-AND-SYRUP WEIGHER, GRAPE, GROOVING-MACHINE OPERATORHEEL TAP, hose bib, hose bibb, hose cockinterrupted thread tap, INVESTIGATOR, NARCOTICSLABORER, TREE TAPPINGMACHINE OPERATOR, CERAMICS, master screw, melter assistantnarcotics investigator, nut tap, nut tap with curved shankoffice international de la vigne et du vin, open-hearth-furnace operator, outside tap, overhead service entrance conductors, oxygen lanceperiod during which the subscription lists are open, phacker, piloted tap, PISTON MAKER, Point-of-Use Treatment Device, PRODUCTION-MACHINE TENDERSCIMETAR, screw bell, SCREW-MACHINE TENDER, Service Connector, SIGHT MOUNTER, sill cock, SILVERWARE ASSEMBLER, siphon tap, SMOKING-PIPE REPAIRER, soft-iron inspector, stamping-die maker, bench, stay-bolt tap, STEM-PROCESSING-MACHINE OPERATOR, Storage Water Heater, SUPERVISOR, AUTOMATIC MACHINES, syphon bricktap with interrupted teeth, tap with reduced shank, TAP-AND-DIE-MAKER TECHNICIAN, TAPPER II, TAPPER OPERATOR, TAPPER SUPERVISOR, TAPPER, BALANCE-WHEEL SCREW HOLE, TAPROOM ATTENDANT, TIN RECOVERY WORKERvalve inspector, valve inspector-and-assembler, VALVE REPAIRERWASH-HOUSE WORKER. (references)
Etymologies containing "tap": topaz. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Tap" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Dutch (electric plug, faucet, pivot, plug, spindle, stopper, tap), Faeroese (defeat), Norwegian (loss), Portuguese (TAP), Scottish (tow or wool on the distaff), Turkmen (mood, spirits).

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Modern Usage: Tap

DomainUsage

Screenplays

You can't just tap them on the shoulder anymore (Seven; writing credit: Andrew Kevin Walker)

Just walk right into Precrime, go into the Temple, somehow tap into the Precogs, and then download this Minority Report (Minority Report; writing credit: Scott Frank)

And then, what do you know, soon our dear old friend, the red, red vino on tap, the same in all places, like it's put out by the same big firm, began to flow (A Clockwork Orange; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick)

Searching for a way to tap into the hidden strengths that all humans have (The Incredible Hulk; writing credit: Carol Baxter; Paul M. Belous)

We have tap water and glasses (Zombiegeddon; writing credit: Chris Watson)

Lyrics

Tap on your window pane (Until You Come Back To Me; performing artist: Aretha Franklin)

Bring a nickel; tap your feet (DOWN ON THE CORNER; performing artist: Creedence Clearwater Revival)

We got the flavor, make your hands clap, toes tap (Feels Good; performing artist: Naughty By Nature)

Turn on your tap and get hot and cold running crud (Pollution; performing artist: Tom Lehrer)

Movie/TV Titles

Tip en Tap (1971)

Tap Roots (1948)

Love On Tap (1939)

Tip Tap Toe (1932)

Tap Water (1999)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Tap

DomainTitle

References

  • Tap Oil Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • The World Market for Hand-Operated Spanners, Wrenches, Interchangeable Spanner Sockets, and Torque Meter Wrenches Excluding Tap Wrenches: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Savion: My Life in Tap (reference)

  • TAP! The Greatest Tap Dance Stars and Their Stories 1900-1955 (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Tap

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Photo Album: Tap

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

Shows picture of patient on examining table getting needle inserted for a bone marrow tap. Mother shown with patient. Credit: Bill Branson (Photographer).

Tuna caught in the Sancti Petri tap brought to the processing plant. Credit: Fisheries.

Trying to tap oil. Credit: Library of Congress.

A tap dancer / Albert Smith. Credit: Library of Congress.

The Tap room, Longfellow's Wayside Inn, South Sudbury, Mass. Credit: Library of Congress.

Steel production. More iron for steel production. Hot molten metal flows from the tap hole into a trough at a big Eastern blast furnace is cast. Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation. Farrell, Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress.

Woodpiles outside of sugar house on Frank Shurtliffs farm, North Bridgewater, Vermont. Large supply of wood is needed for fuel in boiling the maple sap. Sugaring brings in about one thousand dollars annually. Because of the deep snow this year he only tap. Credit: Library of Congress.

Arthur S. Vernay, residence in Los Cayos, Nassau, Bahamas. Tap room I, windows open. Credit: Library of Congress.

H. Sheridan Baketel, M.D., residence in Pottersville, New Jersey. Tap room I. Credit: Library of Congress.

Wayside Inn, Sudbury, Massachusetts. Tap room I. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Tap
 

"Tap" by URBAN CREATOR
Commentary: "Close up of cold tap on a sink basin."
"Tap drop series 1" by Carlos Gustavo Curado
Commentary: "Dripping kitchen tap."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Sounds Captioned with "Tap".

PlayCaption
Crackle; crepitate; crinkle; hum; murmur; patter; sigh; stir; swish; tap; whir; whish; whoosh.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Tap

AuthorQuotation

Author Unknown

Dear Lord, fill my mouth with lots of good stuff and tap me when I've said enough.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Tap

AuthorDateQuotation

John F. Kennedy

1961

Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Tap

TitleAuthorQuote

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Soft fingers began to tap the sill of the car window, and hard fingers tightened on the restless drawing sticks

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Tap

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Do not use ice made from tap water. (references)

Do not drink any tap water, not even when brushing your teeth. (references)

A spinal tap may be performed to obtain fluid to study these factors. (references)

Business

Visitors are advised not to drink tap water in China. (references)

The U.S. has yet to tap into the market value of China’s booming port industry. (references)

To tap into this growing market exporters need have their exports classified as a food product. (references)

Civil Liberties

Tunisia

The ERTT's coverage of government news is taken directly from the official news agency, TAP. (references)

Economic History

Netherlands

In this process, water is heated and used for tap water. (references)

Russia

S-account bonds tap into the rubles trapped in S accounts at very low, even negative nominal interest rates. (references)

Political Economy

PANAMA

Many expect the current Panamanian government to try once again to tap Panama's $1.3 billion Fiduciary Fund, money accrued from privatizations and the sale of former U.S. military properties, to pay down some of its debt. (references)

Trade

Egypt

The development of professional investment banking capabilities will definitely help encourage the private sector to tap the securities market more often. (references)

Travel

Botswana

Tap water in the major towns is safe to drink. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

SCIMETAR, n. A curved sword of exceeding keenness, in the conduct of which certain Orientals attain a surprising proficiency, as the incident here related will serve to show. The account is translated from the Japanese by Shusi Itama, a famous writer of the thirteenth century. When the great Gichi-Kuktai was Mikado he condemned to decapitation Jijiji Ri, a high officer of the Court. Soon after the hour appointed for performance of the rite what was his Majesty's surprise to see calmly approaching the throne the man who should have been at that time ten minutes dead! "Seventeen hundred impossible dragons!" shouted the enraged monarch. "Did I not sentence you to stand in the market-place and have your head struck off by the public executioner at three o'clock? And is it not now 3:10?" "Son of a thousand illustrious deities," answered the condemned minister, "all that you say is so true that the truth is a lie in comparison. But your heavenly Majesty's sunny and vitalizing wishes have been pestilently disregarded. With joy I ran and placed my unworthy body in the market-place. The executioner appeared with his bare scimetar, ostentatiously whirled it in air, and then, tapping me lightly upon the neck, strode away, pelted by the populace, with whom I was ever a favorite. I am come to pray for justice upon his own dishonorable and treasonous head." "To what regiment of executioners does the black-boweled caitiff belong?" asked the Mikado. "To the gallant Ninety-eight Hundred and Thirty-seventh -- I know the man. His name is Sakko-Samshi." "Let him be brought before me," said the Mikado to an attendant, and a half-hour later the culprit stood in the Presence. "Thou bastard son of a three-legged hunchback without thumbs!" roared the sovereign -- "why didst thou but lightly tap the neck that it should have been thy pleasure to sever?" "Lord of Cranes of Cherry Blooms," replied the executioner, unmoved, "command him to blow his nose with his fingers." Being commanded, Jijiji Ri laid hold of his nose and trumpeted like an elephant, all expecting to see the severed head flung violently from him. Nothing occurred: the performance prospered peacefully to the close, without incident. All eyes were now turned on the executioner, who had grown as white as the snows on the summit of Fujiama. His legs trembled and his breath came in gasps of terror. "Several kinds of spike-tailed brass lions!" he cried; "I am a ruined and disgraced swordsman! I struck the villain feebly because in flourishing the scimetar I had accidentally passed it through my own neck! Father of the Moon, I resign my office." So saying, he gasped his top-knot, lifted off his head, and advancing to the throne laid it humbly at the Mikado's feet.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: Tap

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

John F. Kennedy

1961-1963Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.

George W. Bush

2001-2005Low interest rates have allowed Americans to tap the rising value of their homes.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Tap

"Tap" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 63.90% of the time. "Tap" is used about 1,682 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)63.9%1,0756,995
Lexical Verb (infinitive)17.87%30116,714
Lexical Verb (base form)14.79%24918,850
Noun (proper)3.09%5247,145
Noun (common)0.3%5157,705
Unclassified Items0.06%1339,140
                    Total100.00%1,682N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Tap

CountryName
Australia

Tap Oil Ltd.

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Tap

Expressions using "tap": air tap be on tap beer on the tap bridge tap bridged tap bridging tap drip of a tap fire tap heel tap interrupted thread tap Master tap mixer tap nut tap nut tap with curved shank on tap piloted tap plug tap screw tap slag tap firing spinal tap tap a house tap a new country tap a subject tap at a door tap at the window Tap bolt tap changing Tap cinder tap dance tap dancer tap dancing tap hole tap house tap off tap one's forehead tap out tap smb. for information tap smb.'s supply Tap tap system tap the wire tap the wires tap water tap wine tap with interrupted teeth tap with reduced shank tap wrench to tap turn off the tap turn on the tap water tap wire tap. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "tap": tap-borne, tap-dance, tap-danced, tap-dancer, tap-dancers, tap-dancing, tap-handles, tap-hole, tap-in, tap-in-putt, tap-ins, tap-loaded, tap-off, tap-out, tap-penalties, tap-penalty, tap-room, tap-root, tap-rooted, tap-shoes, tap-tap, tap-tapping, Tap-tap-tap, tap-tap-tapping, tap-technique, tap-the-tip-tank, tap-threads, tap-turning, tap-water.

Ending with "tap": coil-tap, Purity-on-tap, tap-tap.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Tap

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

tap

778

keg tap

43

spinal tap

485

tap root

42

tap shoes

284

cell phone tap

40

tap dance

260

tap water

40

tap pharmaceutical

226

tap touche

38

tap air portugal

208

tap drill

35

tap dancing

175

tap air

33

phone tap

170

tap pants

30

tap plastic

169

spinal tap lyrics

29

beer tap handle

105

mod tap

28

tap handle

96

nys tap

26

airline tap

93

wire tap

25

beer tap

90

recycling tap

25

tap and die

80

arizonas grill tap

25

tap and die set

66

harrys room tap

23

this is spinal tap

64

child tap shoes

23

tap light

55

procedure spinal tap

23

tap drill size

53

portugal tap

22

chart drill tap

51

power tap

22

tap dog

45

tap dance shoes

22
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Tap

Language Translations for "tap"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

aanboor (bore, broach, sink, strike). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

trokitje e lehtë (dab), trokas (clink, dab, drum, knock, percuss, rap), tapë (Bibb, bung, bunghole, Cork, Corky, float, gag, obturator, pickled, plug, rabbit, spigot, stopper, stopple, wad), rubinet (faucet, spigot, stopcock, turncock, valve, water tap), derdh (discharge, disgorge, dump, effuse, ejaculate, eject, empty out, escape, found, outpour, pay in, pour, pour off, pour out, reject, run, scatter, shed, slop, spill, strew, tip off, upset), duq (spigot, spile), godit (bash, beat, biff, buffet, bump, butt, clip, clout, conk, deal, defeat, hit, impinge, instigate, joggle, jostle, knock, pound, shock, shove, slam, smite, stab, strike, thrash, thwack, whack), hedh (aim, cast, cheat, chuck, dart, dash, diddle, discard, dispose of, down-load, drop, evade, flash, fling, flip, fob, fob off, have, heave, hose, hurl, land, launch, pitch, pour out, project, push, rain, release, scrap, send, set down, sink, sling, spill, sprinkle, strew, swing, throw, throw away, throw down, throw over, toss, touch off, transfer, winnow), kontakt (contact), lidhje (affinity, alliance, bandage, bearing, binding, bond, bracer, bracing, catena, communication, confederate, confederation, conjunction, connection, connexion, contact, cord, coupling, dressing, federation, join, joining, joint, knot, league, ligament, ligature, link, link up, linkage, nexus, rapport, regard, relation, relevance, relevancy, respect, seam, signalling, tie, tie up, truss, tying), mashkull filetimi, birrë (ale, beer, malt, table-beer, wallop), paftë këpuce, zbraz (clear, clear out, deplenish, deplete, discharge, drain, draw, dump, effuse, empty, empty out, evacuate, exhaust, flux, Lade, make a hole in, outpour, overrun, pour out, purge, shoot, unload, unlock, void), shes verë, shollë në takë, vë paftë në këpucë, vë shollë në takë, vendos rubinet, mbush (cement, charge, clog, close, cover in, cram, crowd, draw, fill, fill in, fill up, gorge, Grout, heap, imbue, impregnate, infest, inject, inspire, line, load, make out, meet, pad, pervade, pour out, pump, stop up, Stow, stuff, suffuse, write out). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏تصنت (listen in, monitor), ‏رقصة المطقطقات, ‏ثقب بشكل لولبي, ‏إختار (choose, cull, discriminate, elect, name, nominate, opt, pack, pick out, plump for, pronounce, select, single, slate, tag, take), ‏إستغل (avail, exploit, follow up, harness, impose, milk, presume, profiteer, quarry, take advantage of, trade on), ‏إلتقط الإرسال, ‏جذب راس المال, ‏خرم (perforate, pierce, punch, tat), ‏صنبور (faucet, hydrant, jet, manhole, nozzle, spout), ‏صنبور يرميل, ‏رقص رقصا نقريا, ‏تبرعم (bud, budding, shoot, sprout), ‏فتحة برميل (plug), ‏تصنت علي التلفون, ‏حز (cut, girdle, invest, nick, notch, snick), ‏حنفية (faucet, spigot), ‏وصل بفرع, ‏قرع (bang, banging, beat, beating, chide, drum, hitting, knock, knocking, rap, rapping, ring, sound, striking, toll), ‏لولب (helix, screw, spiral, thread), ‏نزيف (bleeding, issue), ‏نقر (drum, flip, gouge, peck, percuss, plunk, prickle, tapping), ‏نقطة تفرع, ‏ملولب, ‏عين (allocate, appoint, assign, assist, constitute, create, define, delimit, designate, eye, install, institute, make, name, ordain, peeper, poach, post, prefix, put, rescue, set smb. on smb., specify, state, succor, succour, supply). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

метчик, изпускам разтопен метал от пещ, измъквам (disentangle, drag out, drag up, extract, extricate, ferret out, finagle, fish out, get away, mulct, pry, rip out, rout up, rummage out, shake down, slip away, wheedle, worm), потропване, потупване (clap, dab), почукване (knock, knocking, rap, tapping), похлопване (rap), правя пункция на, правя отклонение, правя винтов нарез, правя разклонение, пробивам дупка (stave in), пробивам отвор за чугун, добирам се до (get at, win through), запушалка (choke, obturator, peg, plug, spile, stopper, tampion, wad), сорт (breed, class, degree, description, genus, grade, kind, nature, order, persuasion, rate, sort, species, strain, style, variety), общо помещение в кръчма (taproom), винторез (threader), вземам назаем, военен сигнал за обед в стола, клема (clamp, cleat, phase, post, snap, terminal), капаче, канелка (bibcock, bung, faucet, spigot, vent-peg), качество (brand, capacity, class, degree, fabric, grade, kind, merit, point, quality, rate, stamp), кран (drawing-machine, faucet, spigot, water tap), чеп (bung, burr, fauces, knag, knar, knot, knur, knurl, nodule, Nodus, nub, peg, plug, spigot, spile, toggle), разклонение (branch, derivation, embranchment, node, offset, offshoot, prong, ramification, ramus, split), слагам кран на, прониквам в (enter, penetrate, permeate, transfuse). (various references)

   

Catalan

  

aixeta (faucet). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

龍頭 , 轻拍 (Chucked, Chucking, Dab, PAT, Patted, Patting, tap-off, tapped, tapping, taps), 輕打 (hit lightly), (strike), 剝啄 . (various references)

   

Czech

  

poklepání, exploatovat (exploit, work), kohoutek (cockerel, faucet, stopcock, withers), naèít (begin, broach, start), napíchnout (fix, Spike), odposlouchávat (monitor), èepovat, pláchnutí (slap), zaklepat (knock), poklepat (Pat), veèerka (taps), vypumpovat (deflate), využít (avail oneself of, embrace, exploit, fob, grasp, suck, utilize), zátka (bung, Cork, plug, stopper), zaklepání (Pat), pípa (faucet, spigot). (various references)

   

Danish

  

hane (faucet, rooster). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

tap (electric plug, faucet, pivot, plug, spindle, stopper), kraan (crane, faucet), aanboren (bore, broach, sink, strike). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

krano (faucet), kaŝaŭskulti (bug, eavesdrop, listen in, monitor), frapeti (pat), elkrani, boratingi (bore, broach, sink, strike). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

tøppur (cork, electric plug, faucet, plug, stopper), krani (faucet). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

سوراخ چیزیرابنداوردن , ضربت اهسته (Tip), ضربات اهسته وپیوسته زدن , ازشیراب جاری کردن , شیراب زدن به , شیراب (Spigot, Spout), بهره برداری کردن از (Exploit). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

hana (faucet, hammer). (various references)

   

French

  

robinet, toucher (taction), taraud, rencontrer, forer. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

ôfharkje (bug, eavesdrop, listen in, monitor). (various references)

   

German

  

zapfen (bung, cone, draw, faucet, gudgeon, icicle, pin, pull, spigot, spigots, stopper, tenon, trunnion, trunnions), Hahn (chanticleer, cockerel, faucet, hammer, rooster, spigot, trigger), zapfhahn (beer-pull), wasserhahn (faucet, faucetUS, spout, stopcock, water tap), Anzapfung (n., tapping), anzapfen (bottle, breach, broach, pump, touch smb. for). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

βρύση (bib, faucet, fount, fountain). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ברז (faucet, spigot). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

dugó (bung, Cork, peg, plug, spill, stopper, stopple, stud), csap (beer pump, cog, dowel, faucet, fish, hinge-pin, slap, slat, spigot, spile, struck, switch, tang, tenon, to flop, to kick up a riot, to lash, to paint the town red, to strike). (various references)

   

Icelandic

  

krani (faucet). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

sadap (bug), menyadap (bug, sample blood), menggetah, mencuit (poke), kran, caruk (indent, notch). (various references)

   

Italian

  

rubinetto (chanticleer, faucet, rooster), origliare (bug, eavesdrop, listen in, monitor, overhear). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

蛇口 (faucet), 給水栓 (faucet, hydrant). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

すいどうせん (faucet, hydrant), きゅうすいせん (faucet, hydrant), のみぐち (a tap, bung hole, end of pipe stem, faucet, spigot), のみくち (faucet, spigot), コック (cook, faucet, spigot), タップ , じゃぐち (faucet), とんとん (rap-tap, tapping). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

꼭지 (Faucet, taps). (various references)

   

Manx

  

crankal (bang, knock), crank (knock, rap). (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

kranchi (faucet). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aptay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

torneira (faucet, spigot, water tap), bica (drain, faucet, fountain, spout, water pipe, waterspout). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

tapa de bani, toc (case, casement, casing, cover, feather, holster, housing, knock, pen, penholder, plume, sheath, smack, stalk), intercepta (intercept), bate încet, canea, capta (capture, collect), cep (bung, journal, nose, spigot, spile, spill), da cep la, derivaţie (derivation, leak, shunt), face gaurã în, bate (bark, baste, bastinado, bay, beat, beat up, beetle, belabour, best, blow, box, bruise, buffet, burst, chastise, chime, clap, club, cob, contend, cuff, curry, dash, defeat, drive, drub, flail, flicker, flog, go, hit, horse, knock, knock in, lace, larrup, lash, lash into, lick, mint, paddle, palpitate, Pat, patter, peal, pound, pulsate, pulse, range, rap, rattle, ring, shake up, shine, slap, smite, sound, spank, strike, swinge, switch, tan, tew, thrash, throb, thwack, tick, tinkle, toll, wallop, whip, worst), fileta, lovi (assail, attack, batter, beat, befall, buffet, bump, catch, clap, crack, cuff, cut, dab, drive, drub, fib, flap, hammer, harm, hit, hurt, impact, infect, injure, jar, knock, lash, lay hands on, lunge at, Pat, put, reach, seize, shock, slam, slap, smite, spank, strike, swat, swinge, switch, thrust, thump, touch, whack, whip, wipe, wound, wrong), loviturã uşoarã (dab, flick, flip, rap, touch), racord (connection, coupling, inlet, joint, union), ramificaţie (bend, branch, offshoot, ramification, split, spur), robinet (faucet, stopcock), stabili relaţii comerciale cu, fel (character, class, course, custom, description, feather, kidney, kind, manner, mode, nature, order, race, sort, species, stem, style, tradition, tribe, way). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

ответвление (arm, branch, embranchment, offset, offshoot, rame, ramification), делать отвод, перехватывать (tackle, wiretap, wiretapped), подключать отвод, пробивать летку, пробка (bibb, cap, spigot, stopper), легкий стук (rap), летка (taphole), метчик, делать прокол, нарезать резьбу (screw, thread), сорт (grade, kind, make, manner, persuasion, quality, race, sort, strain, style, variety), ответвлять (tap a wire), отвод (challenge, discharger), выпускать жидкость, выпускать металл из печи, выпускное отверстие (nozzle, outage, spout), вынимать пробку (unplug), кран (bibb, bibcock, bib-cock, crane, plug, spigot, water tap, water-tap), кран водопроводный, наливать (pour in). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

goc (a tap, cock of a vessel). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

točiti (pour), tapšanje (plaudit), prisluškivati (eavesdrop, listen in, monitor), fleka, izmamiti (elicit, entice, scrounge, wangle, wheedle, winkle out), koristiti (benefit, profit, profit by, trade on, use), kuckati, lak udarac (flick, jog, rap, tip), dobovati (patter), potapšati (chuck, dab, pat), zapušač (bung, cork, corker, plug, stopper, stopple), prislušni uređaj (bug), punktirati (punctuate), slavina (faucet, jet, spigot), spojiti (aggregate, bring together, combine, connect, couple, fuse, hook up, join, joint, knit, link, lump, merge, pair, piece, piece together, pin together, ply, rabbet, slur, splice), lupati (bang, hit, knock, pound, rack, throb). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

grifo (curly, drunk, faucet, griffin, pot, snobbish), palmadita (Pat), derivación (branch, branching, bypass, derivation, shunt). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

tappning (tapping), tappa ur (draw), tapp (dowel, faucet, flock, peg, pintle, plug, spigot, tenon, wisp), kran (bibcock, conk, crab, crane, faucet, pecker, Snoot, stopcock), knacka (beat the rap, hit, knock, rap, strike), klapp (chuck, clap, dab, pat). (various references)

   

Thai

  

เต้นแท็พ (tap-dance), เคาะ (knock, rap at), ก๊อกน้ำ (faucet), การแตะเบาๆ, ติดหัวก๊อก, หัวต่อไฟฟ้า, ปล่อยของเหลวออกจากก๊อก, จุกขวด. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

tıpa takmak (stopper), tıklatmak (rap, rap out), tıklatma (knocking, rap, tapping), tıkırtı (clack, click, clinking, patter, rattling, tick), tıkırdatmak (click, rattle), pıtırtı (patter), bağlantı (channel, commitment, communication, concern, connecting, connection, connexion, contact, contact man, coordination, coupling, dealings, header, hookup, intercourse, liaison, link, linkage, linkup, noose, relation, tie, tie in, tie up), bağlantı kurmak (corelate, establish a connection with, get hold of, link, link up, make contact, relate), bar (ale-house, bar, café, dram-shop, gin mill, grogshop, pub, public, public house, saloon, shebang, shebeen, taproom, tavern), fıçı (barrel, barreled, barrelled, cask, keg, tub, vat, wood), fıçıdan doldurulmuş içki, hafif vuruş (dab, rap, tip), hafifçe dokunmak (dab, dab at), hafifçe vurmak (clap, flick, percuss, rap, tip), kaçak hat çekmek, musluğu açmak, çeşme (drinking fountain, fountain, well), musluk takmak (spile), yat borusu (curfew, retreat), para sızdırmak (blackmail, bleed, bleed smb., clean out, gouge, shake down, squeeze, touch), pençe (claw, cleat, clutch, clutches, Fang, paw, pounce, talon), pençe vurmak (cobble, sole), step dansı yapmak (step dance, tap dance), suyunu akıtmak, vücutta biriken suyu alma, musluk (faucet, stopcock). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

kran (r) (faucet, spigot), bulak (spring). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

уставляти кран, сорт (breed, chop, class, gender, genus, kind, nature, order, quality, sort), цідити (draft), кран (plug), втулка (barrel, bung, collet, hob, hub, liner, nave, spigot, spile), виймати втулку, наливати рідину, пробка (hold up, logjam, obturator, plug, stopper, stopping, stopple), пивниця (ale-house, beerhouse, boozer, cellar, doggery, pub, shanty, tap-room). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

tarô, cái vỗ nhẹ (bob, pat, tip), cái gõ nhẹ (flick), cái đập nhẹ (flick). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

taro (beat, hit, hot, knock, smite, stick, strike, suit). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Tap

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Old French900-1400

taper. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Tap

Derivations

Words beginning with "tap": tapa, tapadera, tapaderas, tapadero, tapaderos, tapalo, tapalos, tapas, tape, taped, tapeless, tapelike, tapeline, tapelines, tapenade, tapenades, taper, tapered, taperer, taperers, tapering, tapers, taperstick, tapersticks, tapes, tapestried, tapestries, tapestry, tapestrying, tapeta, tapetal, tapetum, tapeworm, tapeworms, taphole, tapholes, taphonomic, taphonomies, taphonomist, taphonomists, taphonomy, taphouse, taphouses, taping, tapioca, tapiocas, tapir, tapirs, tapis, tapises, tapped. (additional references)

Words ending with "tap": atap, heeltap, watap, wiretap. (additional references)

Words containing "tap": antimetaphysical, ataps, audiotape, audiotapes, cataphora, cataphoras, cataphoreses, cataphoresis, cataphoretic, cataphoretically, cataphoric, cataplasm, cataplasms, cataplexies, cataplexy, catapult, catapulted, catapulting, catapults, cenotaph, cenotaphs, convertaplane, convertaplanes, epitaph, epitaphial, epitaphic, epitaphs, etape, etapes, gestapo, gestapos, heeltaps, juxtapose, juxtaposed, juxtaposes, juxtaposing, juxtaposition, juxtapositional, juxtapositions, metaphase, metaphases, metaphor, metaphoric, metaphorical, metaphorically, metaphors, metaphosphate, metaphosphates, metaphrase, metaphrases, metaphysic. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Tap" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Atpc, atpl, Atyp, Etap, otep, qtip, taao, taip, taj, tal, tapf, taph, tapi, tapo, tapt, tapz, taq, taup, tav, tcp, teap, teip, tep, tepa, tepz, thap, thp, tiap, tipp, Tipu, tlap, tlp, tmp, toap, topf, tp, tpa, tpm, tpn, trp, twap, Txapu, txp, typ, typp, tzap. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Tap"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "tap" (pronounced ta"p)
2-a" pcap, chap, clap, crap, entrap, flap, frap, gap, hap, lap, map, nap, pap, rap, sap, scrap, slap, snap, strap, trap, unwrap, wrap, yap, Zap.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Tap

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: apt, pat.

Words within the letters "a-p-t"

-1 letter: at, pa, ta.

 Words containing the letters "a-p-t"
 

+1 letter: atap, atop, pact, pant, part, past, pate, path, pats, paty, peat, phat, pita, plat, prat, rapt, spat, tamp, tapa, tape, taps, tarp, tepa, trap.

 

+2 letters: adapt, adept, adopt, apart, aport, apter, aptly, ataps, atopy, atrip, caput, chapt, clapt, coapt, epact, etape, expat, inapt, kaput, leapt, lepta, pacts, paint, palet, panto, pants, panty, parts, party, pasta, paste, pasts, pasty, patch, pated, paten, pater, pates, paths, patin, patio, patly, patsy, patty, peart, peats, peaty, petal, pieta, pinta, pitas, plait, plant, plate, plats, platy, pleat, prate, prats, pruta, septa, spait, spate, spats, splat, sprat, sputa, stamp, staph, strap, stupa, tamps, tapas, taped, taper, tapes, tapir, tapis, tarps, taupe, tepal, tepas, topaz, tramp, traps, trapt, typal, unapt, watap, wrapt.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art
9. Sounds
10. Quotations: Familiar
11. Quotations: Historic
12. Quotations: Fiction
13. Quotations: Non-fiction
14. Quotations: Speeches
15. Usage Frequency
16. Names: Company Usage
17. Expressions
18. Expressions: Internet
19. Translations: Modern
20. Translations: Ancient
21. Abbreviations
22. Acronyms
23. Derivations
24. Rhymes
25. Anagrams
26. Bibliography


  

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