Definitions for TAP

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TAP tap

Spelling: [tap]

IPA: /tæp/

Tap is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 17 anagrams from letters in TAP (apt).

Definitions for TAP

noun

1. a light but audible blow:
2. the sound made by this.
3. a piece of metal attached to the toe or heel of a shoe, as for reinforcement or for making the tapping of a dancer more audible.
4. Basketball. an act or instance of tapping the ball:
5. a thickness of leather added to the sole or heel of a boot or shoe, as in repairing.
6. a cylindrical stick, long plug, or stopper for closing an opening through which liquid is drawn, as in a cask; spigot.
7. a faucet or cock.
8. the liquor drawn through a particular tap.
9. British. a taphouse or taproom.
10. a tool for cutting screw threads into the cylindrical surface of a round opening.
11. Surgery. the withdrawal of fluid:
12. a hole made in tapping, as one in a pipe to furnish connection for a branch pipe.
13. Electricity. a connection brought out of a winding at some point between its extremities, for controlling the voltage ratio.
14. Informal. an act or instance of wiretapping.
15. Archaic. a particular kind or quality of drink.

Idioms

1. on tap, ready to be drawn and served, as liquor from a cask. furnished with a tap or cock, as a barrel containing liquor. Informal. ready for immediate use; available:

Verb phrases

1. tap into, Informal. to gain access to; become friendly with:
2. tap off, to remove (liquid, molten metal, etc.) from a keg, furnace, or the like:

verb (used with object)

1. to strike with a light but audible blow or blows; hit with repeated, slight blows:
2. to make, put, etc., by tapping:
3. to strike (the fingers, a foot, a pencil, etc.) upon or against something, especially with repeated light blows:
4. Basketball. to strike (a ball in the air) in the direction of a teammate or of the basket.
5. to enter information or produce copy by tapping on a keyboard:
6. to add a thickness of leather to the sole or heel of (a boot or shoe), as in repairing.
7. to draw liquid from (a vessel or container).
8. to draw off (liquid) by removing or opening a tap or by piercing a container.
9. to draw the tap or plug from or pierce (a cask or other container).
10. to penetrate, open up, reach into, etc., for the purpose of using something or drawing something off; begin to use:
11. to connect into secretly so as to receive the message or signal being transmitted:
12. to furnish (a cask, container, pipe, etc.) with a tap.
13. to cut a screw thread into the surface of (an opening).
14. to open outlets from (power lines, highways, pipes, etc.).

verb (used without object)

1. to strike lightly but audibly, as to attract attention.
2. to strike light blows.
3. to tap-dance.

Origin of TAP

1175-1225; (v.) Middle English tappen, variant of early Middle English teppen, probably imitative; (noun) Middle English, derivative of the v.

Examples for TAP

The NSA had already built the infrastructure to tap into communications networks.

I got him to tap it gentler and gentler, and could hear the most feeble tap.

Obama is widely believed to tap an ex-physicist who cuts military waste like a laser to become the next secretary of defense.

The boiler leaked at nearly every hole where a tap had been screwed into it.

The Queen today sent her first tweet - and yes, she really did tap it out and press the tweet button herself.

Wahb could have hurled him across the Graybull with one tap now.

Cervecerías Barú resolved problems with their draft system that prohibited them from selling on tap for almost seven years.

But he had not sat reading very long, when he heard a tap at his door.

Is filtered water that much cleaner and safer than tap water?

But either Epimetheus had not heard the tap, or was too much out of humor to notice it.