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▸ noun: (by extension)
▸ noun: An object with a tapering conical form like a tap (sense 1); specifically, short for taproot (“long, tapering root of a plant”).
▸ noun: A hollow device used to control the flow of a fluid, such as an alcoholic beverage from a cask, or a gas or liquid in a pipe.
▸ noun: (medicine, informal) A procedure that removes fluid from a body cavity; paracentesis.
▸ noun: Liquor drawn through a tap (sense 2.2); hence, a certain kind or quality of liquor; also (figurative, informal), a certain kind or quality of any thing.
▸ noun: (communication, chiefly law enforcement)
▸ noun: A device used to listen in secretly on telephone calls or other communications.
▸ noun: A secret interception of telephone calls or other communications using such a device; also, a recording of such a communication.
▸ noun: (finance) A situation where a borrowing government authority issues bonds over a period of time, usually at a fixed price, with volumes sold on a particular day dependent on market conditions.
▸ noun: (mechanics) A cylindrical tool used to cut an internal screw thread in a hole, with cutting edges around the lower end and an upper end to which a handle is fitted to turn the tool.
▸ noun: (British, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering) A connection made to an electrical or fluid conductor without breaking it; a tapping.
▸ verb: (transitive)
▸ verb: To furnish (a container, etc.) with a tap (noun sense 2.2) so that liquid can be drawn.
▸ verb: To draw off (a liquid) from a container or other source; also, to draw off a liquid from (a container or other source).
▸ verb: (medicine, informal) To drain off fluid from (a person or a body cavity) by paracentesis.
▸ verb: (figurative)
▸ verb: To break into or open up (a thing) so as to obtain something; to exploit, to penetrate.
▸ verb: To deplete (something); to tap out.
▸ verb: (informal) To ask or beg for (something) to be given for free; to cadge, to scrounge; also, to ask or beg (someone) to give something for free.
▸ verb: (communication, chiefly law enforcement) To connect a listening and/or recording device to (a communication cable or device) in order to listen in secretly on telephone calls or other communications; also, to secretly listen in on and/or record (a telephone call or other communication).
▸ verb: (board games, card games) To turn over (a playing card or playing piece) to remind players that it has already been used in that round.
▸ verb: (poker) To force (an opponent) to place all their poker chips in the pot (that is, to go all in) by wagering all of one's own chips.
▸ verb: (horticulture) To remove a taproot from (a plant).
▸ verb: (mechanics)
▸ verb: To cut an internal screw thread in (a hole); also, to cut (an internal screw thread) in a hole, or to create an internally threaded hole in (something).
▸ verb: To cut an external screw thread into (a bolt or rod) to create a screw.
▸ verb: To put (a screw or other object) in or through another thing.
▸ verb: (intransitive)
▸ verb: To act as a tapster; to draw an alcoholic beverage from a container.
▸ verb: (obsolete) To spend money, etc., freely.
▸ verb: (transitive)
▸ verb: To strike (someone or something), chiefly lightly with a clear sound, but sometimes hard.
▸ verb: (slang) Also in the form tap on the shoulder: to arrest (someone).
▸ verb: (slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse with (someone).
▸ verb: (slang) To shoot (someone or something) with a firearm.
▸ verb: To (lightly) touch (a finger, foot, or other body part) on a surface, often repeatedly.
▸ verb: (transitive) To lightly touch a touchscreen, usually an icon or button, to activate a function.
▸ verb: (transitive) To lightly and repeatedly touch (a person or one or more body parts) as part of various forms of psychological treatment.
▸ verb: (combat sports) To force (an opponent) to submit, chiefly by indicating their intention to do so by striking a hand on the ground several times; to tap out.
▸ verb: (graphical user interface) To invoke a function on an electronic device such as a mobile phone by touching (a button, icon, or specific location on its touch screen).
▸ verb: (British, dialectal or US) To repair (an item of footwear) by putting on a new heel or sole, or a piece of material on to the heel or sole.
▸ verb: (chiefly US, informal) To choose or designate (someone) for a duty, an honour, membership of an organization, or a position.
▸ verb: (intransitive)
▸ verb: Often followed by at or on: to strike lightly with a clear sound; also, to make a sharp noise through this action.
▸ verb: To walk by striking the ground lightly with a clear sound.
▸ verb: Of a bell, a drum, etc.: to make a sharp noise, often as a signal.
▸ verb: (combat sports) To submit to an opponent, chiefly by indicating an intention to do so by striking a hand on the ground several times; to tap out.
▸ verb: (obsolete) Of a hare or rabbit: to strike the ground repeatedly with its feet during the rutting season.
▸ noun: (countable)
▸ noun: A light blow or strike with a clear sound; a gentle rap; a pat; also, the sound made by such a blow or strike.
▸ noun: (informal, minimizer, chiefly in the negative) The smallest amount of work; a stroke of work.
▸ noun: (dance) One of the metal pieces attached to the sole of a tap dancer's shoe at the toe and heel to cause a tapping sound.
▸ noun: (firearms, slang) A shot fired from a firearm.
▸ noun: (graphical user interface) An act of touching a button, icon, or specific location on the touch screen of an electronic device such as a mobile phone to invoke a function.
▸ noun: (phonetics) A single muscle contraction in vocal organs causing a consonant sound; also, the sound so made.
▸ noun: (British, dialectal or US) A piece of leather or other material fastened upon the bottom of an item of footwear when repairing the heel or sole; also (England, dialectal) the sole of an item of footwear.
▸ noun: (India, chiefly East India) A malarial fever.
▸ noun: (rail transport) The station code of Tai Po Market in Hong Kong.
▸ noun: (British) Short for taphouse or taproom (“place where alcoholic beverages are served on tap”).
▸ noun: (uncountable, dance) Ellipsis of tap dance. [A rhythmic dance in which the heels and toes of the dancer's shoes make a series of clicks.]
▸ noun: Initialism of talk aloud protocol. [Synonym of think aloud protocol]
▸ noun: Initialism of think aloud protocol. [A data-gathering method used in a variety of research areas in people are asked to verbalise their thought processes as they do a specific task, and this is recorded for further analysis.]
▸ noun: (advertising) Initialism of total audience package: an offering that includes ads broadcast during every part of the schedule.
▸ noun: (software) Initialism of The Ada Project.
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