Taps

Definition: Taps

Taps

Noun

1. (military) signal to turn the lights out.

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

Date "taps" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1830. (references)

TAPS

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

Synonym: Taps

Crosswords: Taps

German (clumsy out), Hungarian (applause, clap, hand, plaudits).

Brilliant gold taps, virginal white marble, a seat carved from ebony, a cistern full of chanel number five, and a flunky handing me pieces of raw silk toilet roll (Trainspotting; writing credit: Irvine Welsh; John Hodge)

Brilliant gold taps, virginal white marble, a seat carved from ebony, a cistern full of Chanel No. 5, and a flunky handing me pieces of raw silk toilet roll (Trainspotting; writing credit: John Hodge. Based on the novel by Irvine Welsh.)

She's not the one with the gold taps, sauna and room for a pony (Keeping Up Appearances; writing credit: Roy Clarke)

No Maps on My Taps (1979)

Glove Taps (1937)

Drum Taps (1933)

Hard Knocks and Love Taps (1921)

Taps (1913)

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

References

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Taps, Cocks, and Valves for Pipes, Tanks, and Vats in Africa (reference)

• The 2003 World Market Forecasts for Imported Taps, Cocks, and Valves for Pipes, Tanks, and Vats (reference)

• The 2002 World Forecasts of Taps, Cocks, and Valves for Pipes, Tanks, and Vats Export Supplies (reference)

• The 2003 World Forecasts of Taps, Cocks, and Valves for Pipes, Tanks, and Vats Export Supplies (reference)

• The World Market for Taps, Cocks, and Valves for Pipes, Tanks, and Vats: A 2003 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Taps Market for 2002 [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• Teach Yourself Tap Dancing/Book With Taps and Audio Cassette (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Taps (reference)

• Drum Taps (reference)

• The Land of Sweet Taps (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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

Airman 1st Class Jaime Wojcik plays Taps.

TAPS Road Construction. Credit: Alaska Historical Image Library.

Erickson Creek and TAPS Road. Credit: Alaska Historical Image Library.

Tapped sugar maple with buckets of sap on Frank Shurtleff's farm. North Bridgewater, Vermont. He usually taps about 2000 trees, but this year he only tapped 1000 because of deep snow. Sugaring generally brings him about one thousand dollars annually, but. Credit: Library of Congress.

Ashland, Aroostook County, Maine. Sounding taps at the Memorial Day ceremonies. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

If a fire breaks out, the taps are turned, and in one minute the theatre is flooded, up to the very roof

Two gentle taps were heard at the door

Beer taps behind the counter, and in back the coffee urns, shiny and steaming with glass gauges showing the coffee level

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Pressure may be controlled by removing excess fluid with repeated spinal taps or by shunting. (references)

Civil Liberties

India

By using the adjective "missionary," the RSS taps into a longstanding fear of foreign religious domination. (references)

Economic History

Pakistan

Most promising subsectors and estimated market size for 2002 are: Centrifugal Pumps ($13.0 million); Rotary Positive Displacement Pumps ($10 million); Vacuum Pumps ($5.5 million); Parts for Pumps ($6 million); Compressors for Refrigeration Equipment ($18.5 million); Air Pumps, Other Compressors ($12 million); Parts for Compressors ($5 million); Pressure-reducing Valves ($3.5 million); Check Valves ($5 million); Taps, Cocks, Other Valves ($8.5 million). (references)

Human Rights

Cameroon

In Douala's New Bell Prison, there were only 7 water taps for a reported 3,500 prisoners; this contributed to poor hygiene, illness, and deaths. (references)

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

Ending with "taps": bib-taps, butterfly-taps, leave no heel-taps, phone-taps, wire-taps.

Arabic 

‏قرع الطبل (roll, tattoo). (various references)

Chinese 

轻拍 (Chucked, Chucking, Dab, PAT, Patted, Patting, tap, tap-off, tapped, tapping). (various references)

Czech

veèerka (tap). (various references)

Danish

valget af fiskeværktøj og-udstyr er afhængigt af fiskens størrelse og form,den vanskelighed,som man regner med,opgaven vil frembyde og fiskerens erfaring;eksempler på værktøj er:overshots,spyd,tapered taps,washover pipe,og indvendigt og udvendigt s (and inside and outside cutters, and the experience of the fisherman;some examples are overshots, spears, tapered taps, the anticipated severity of the problem, the choice of fishing tools and equipment is dictated by the size and shape of the fish, washover pipe). (various references)

Dutch

de keuze van het vanggereedschap is afhankelijk van de grootte en de vorm van de vis,de verwachte ernst van het probleem en de ervaring van de vistechnious;enkele voorbeelden zijn schuifklokken,treksperen,vangtappen,overboorpijpen,inwendige en uitwendige (and inside and outside cutters, and the experience of the fisherman;some examples are overshots, spears, tapered taps, the anticipated severity of the problem, the choice of fishing tools and equipment is dictated by the size and shape of the fish, washover pipe). (various references)

French

ran-tan-plan. (various references)

German

zapfenstreich (last post, tattoo), steppte, steppt, klopft (knocks, palpitates, throbs). (various references)

Greek 

η επιλογή του εξοπλισμού και των εργαλείων ψαρέματος υπαγορεύεται από τις διαστάσεις,τη διάμετρο και το σχήμα του "ψαριού",το βαθμό δυσκολί (tapered taps). (various references)

Hungarian

takarodó (curfew, last post, recall, retreat, sack time, tattoo). (various references)

Italian

rubinetti; prese; spine. (various references)

Korean 

꼭지 (Faucet, tap). (various references)

Pig Latin

apstay.(various references)

Russian 

подключать.....вечерняя заря. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

povečerje (tattoo). (various references)

Spanish

la eleccion de las herramientas y la instalacion para la pesca vienen determinadas por las dimensiones y la forma del pez, el grado de dificultad previsto y la experiencia del operario. Algunos e jemplos de herramientas e instalaciones de pesca son: la ca (and inside and outside cutters, and the experience of the fisherman;some examples are overshots, spears, tapered taps, the anticipated severity of the problem, the choice of fishing tools and equipment is dictated by the size and shape of the fish, washover pipe). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "taps": tapster, tapsters. (additional references)

Words ending with "taps": ataps, heeltaps, wataps, wiretaps. (additional references)

Words containing "taps": metapsychological, metapsychologies, metapsychology. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Taps" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Atpc, atps, tajs, tapas, tapf, taph, tapi, tapo, tapos, tapt, tapus, tapz, tasq, taupes, taus, tavs, tepz, tfas, tiap, tipss, tipz, tisp, tlap, topz, tpa, tups, Tvas, twap, Txapu, txp, tzap. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: past, pats, spat.

-1 letter: apt, asp, pas, pat, sap, sat, spa, tap, tas.

-2 letters: as, at, pa, ta.

+1 letter: ataps, pacts, pants, parts, pasta, paste, pasts, pasty, pates, paths, patsy, peats, pitas, plats, prats, septa, spait, spate, spats, splat, sprat, sputa, stamp, staph, strap, stupa, tamps, tapas, tapes, tapis, tarps, tepas, traps.

+2 letters: adapts, adepts, adopts, aptest, aspect, bypast, catsup, claspt, coapts, epacts, etapes, expats, paints, palest, palets, pantos, papist, pastas, pasted, pastel, paster, pastes, pastie, pastil, pastis, pastor, pastry, patens, paters, pathos, patins, patios, patois, peseta, petals, petsai, pietas, pintas, pitsaw, plaits, plants, plates, platys, pleats, postal, potash, prates, ptisan, rapist, repast, sapota, sapote, satrap, septal, spaits, spates, spathe, spital, splats, sprats, stamps, stapes, staphs, staple, straps, stupas, tapers, tapirs, taupes, tepals, tramps, trapes, upcast, wataps.