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)

Computing

Industry

Electrical Engineering

Finance

Mechanical Engineering

Metallurgy

Mining

Personal Care & Hotels

Slang

Slang in 1811

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

TAP

TAP

TAP

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

Synonyms: Tap

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.

Crosswords: Tap

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).

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)

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)

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.

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

• On Tap (reference)

• Whats On Tap (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Miss Christy's Dance Class - Jazz, Tap & Ballet (reference)

• Tap Dogs (reference)

• Tap (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Kingdom Come; Hymnodic Delays; Fog Tropes II for String Quartet and Tap (reference)

• Tap With A Twist - Music For Tap Class #9537C (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• MAGNAVOX M62900 Single-Outlet Tap (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Hanson 24605 12-Piece Best-5 Tap & Die Set (reference)

• JET TD-110TS 110-Piece Tap and Die Set (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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.

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.

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)

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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.

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.

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), 抃 (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), robin