Word Finder - tap

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A tapering cylindrical pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask.

synonyms

• spigot

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A device used to dispense liquids.

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We don't have bottled water; you'll have to get it from the tap.

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• faucet
• handle
• spigot
• spout

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Liquor drawn through a tap; hence, a certain kind or quality of liquor.

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a liquor of the same tap

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A place where liquor is drawn for drinking.

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• bar
• taproom

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A device used to cut an internal screw thread. (External screw threads are cut with a die.)

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We drilled a hole and then cut the threads with the proper tap to match the valve's thread.

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A connection made to an electrical or fluid conductor without breaking it.

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The system was barely keeping pressure due to all of the ill-advised taps along its length.

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An interception of communication by authority.

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A device used to listen in secretly on telephone calls.

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A procedure that removes fluid from a body cavity.

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abdominal tap

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• paracentesis

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To furnish with taps.

example

If we tap the maple trees, we can get maple syrup!

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To draw off liquid from a vessel.

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He tapped a new barrel of beer.

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To deplete, especially of a liquid via a tap; to tap out.

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To exploit.

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Businesses are trying to tap the youth market.

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To place a listening or recording device on a telephone or wired connection.

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They can't tap the phone without a warrant.

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To intercept a communication without authority.

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He was known to tap cable television.

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• eavesdrop

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To cut an internal screw thread.

example

Tap an M3 thread all the way through the hole.

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To turn or flip a card or playing piece to remind players that it has already been used that turn (by analogy to "tapping," in the sense of drawing on to the point of temporary exhaustion, the resources or abilities represented by the card).

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To cadge, borrow or beg.

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I tried to tap a cigarette off him, but he wouldn't give me one.

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To drain off fluid by paracentesis.

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To advance someone for a post or job, or for membership of a club.

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Trump interviewed Mueller for FBI job day before he was tapped for special counsel.

A light tap sounded at the door.

There was a tap at the door.

Damian can do that, too, but Darian's too weak yet to tap into his power.

Toni's voice was accompanied by a tap at the door.

She won't answer, but just in case the law's got a tap on the line it'll keep 'em off base.

A tap at her door drew her from her black thoughts.

She itched to grab her micro or tap her ear and respond.

A railway to Ber Reshid, the first section of a line intended to tap the rich agricultural region of which Casablanca is the port, was opened in September 1908, being the first railway built in Morocco.

In a vinery, tomatohouse or a peach-house it is often good practice at the time of flowering to tap the branches smartly with a stick so as to ensure the dispersal of the pollen.

It began to mist, just enough for his windshield wipers to skip and hop like a tap dancer as he reached his destination.

The brevity of the interval between the tap on the knee and the beginning of the resultant contraction of the muscle seems such as to exclude the possibility of reflex development.

It was an hour later when he pulled into an upscale tap house and while waiting for ribs and coffee, called Anderson.

Taps to baths and lavatories should be connected to the main services by a flow and return pipe so that hot water is constantly flowing past the tap, thus enabling hot water to be obtained immediately.

It is possible to tap or prick trees daily for a number of years without apparent injury, but the practice of tapping on alternate days appears to be safer and to afford equally satisfactory if not better results.

The hearth always has an Arents siphon tap. This is an inclined channel running through the sidewall, beginning near the bottom of the crucible and ending at the top of the hearth, where it is enlarged into a basin.

The filtering medium in this, as in other filters of the same kind, takes the form of a hollow cylinder or "candle," through the walls of which the water has to pass from the outside to the inside, the candles often being arranged so that they may be directly attached to a tap, whereby the rate of flow, which is apt to be slow, is accelerated by the pressure of the main.

As the iron oxide is stirred into the molten metal laboriously by the workman or "puddler " with his hook or "rabble," it oxidizes the silicon to silica and the phosphorus to phosphoric acid, and unites with both these products, forming with them a basic iron silicate rich in phosphorus, called " puddling " or " tap cinder."

This process with a moderate degree of heat thoroughly cleans it of external greasy matter, and all that is necessary before manufacturing is to gently tap the fur upon a leather cushion stuffed with horsehair with smooth canes of a flexibility suited to the strength of the fur.

The basbab or calabash tree, known in the eastern Sudan as the tebeldi and locally Homr, is fairly common and being naturally hollow the trees collect water, which the natives regularly tap. Another common source of water supply is a small kind of water melon which grows wild and is also cultivated.

The space below the sieve thus formed is connected by means of an outlet tap with a closed tank, and this again communicates with a vacuum pump. By this means the filtration is quickened by the atmospheric pressure, and goes on very rapidly, as also does the subsequent washing.

When melted the products separate on the bed (which is made of closely packed sand or other infusible substances), according to their density; the lighter earthy matters forming an upper layer of slag are drawn out by the slag hole K at the flue end into an iron wagon or bogie, while the metal subsides to the bottom of the bed, and at the termination of the operation is run out by the tap hole L into moulds or granulated into water.

You tap into John's talents which is financially remunerative to you both.

Twelve beers on tap and a full drink menu will keep the proceedings well lubricated.

Desserts can be ordered to top off the meal and a full bar with bottled or tap beer is on-site.

Couple your meal with one of the bar's many imported and domestic beer in bottles and on tap.

For the adult diners, there is a beer and wine menu, which also includes non-alcoholic beers and several ales on tap.

Deidre tipped the vial to tap the last of the liquid out and glanced up at Wynn.

I'm still waiting for my love tap.

Rhyn stretched to tap fists with him, and the portal information lit up his thoughts.

Rhyn slammed Tamer to the ground one last time, too incensed to notice his half-brother was trying desperately to tap out.

She's not stupid either, but I'll bet she'd starve if she didn't have a bank account to tap.

If Toby can't find that answer, it's not something any of the angels know.  Or he's too young to tap into it fully.

Boiler Tap to, empty +G the same water is used over and over again, and no fresh deposit of fur occurs.

Frequently a single pipe is led to the tap, but the water in this branch cools and must therefore be drawn off before hot water can be obtained.

As the iron melts it runs out through a tap hole and spout at the bottom of the furnace, to be poured into the moulds by means of clay-lined ladles.

He must rely upon physical prowess and dealmaking skills to lure Immortals and mortals to Hell in order to tap into the great stores of magic.

A rollicking tap dance, this song starts out slow and sweet, and builds up to be an unforgettable dance number.

A tap at the door made Lankha pause, and she hurried to answer it to keep the healer from being distracted.

It is a brief extension of the limb at the knee-joint, due to a simple contraction of the extensor muscle, elicited by a tap or other short mechanical stimulus applied to the muscle fibres through the tendon of the muscle.

If now a tap is opened in any house connected with the main, the change of flow in the main will be represented by a vertical change of position of the horizontal line, and when the tap is turned off the pencil will resume its original vertical position, but the paper will have moved like the hands of a clock over the interval during which the tap was left open.

While this seemed a bit absurd, the more he thought about being the prime candidate in an attempted murder, with his wife a close second, the more he considered the phone tap a real possibility.

The East Coast's infrastructure systems still reported to her micro, but she could tap into them from the Peace Command Center.

That is the inherent danger of trying to tap into talents or strengths where none exist.

At any given time, there are six cask ales on tap.

This evidence appears to contradict the assumption that tap water should only be considered in heavily colonized environments.

Remember to water azaleas with rainwater collected in a rain butt, not with tap water.

Even the lizards had gone on holiday to escape the furnace heat, leaving only barbed wire bushes and a tap 500 yds away.

Comment from Nicholas Conway, of Wordwave Caselex will tap into national case law which will then be exploited at a European level.

Bloody tap or blood in epidural catheter is controversial.

Different types of TAP include bipolar cautery, laser, and radio frequency.