TAPname

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  rail-transportrailwaystransportThe station code of Tai Po Market in Hong Kong.

tapnoun詞源 1/tæp/

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  A conical peg or pin used to close and open the hole or vent in a container.

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  An object with a tapering conical form like a tap (etymology 1, noun sense 1); specifically, ellipsis of taproot (“long, tapering root of a plant”).

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  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.

  • We don’t have bottled water; you’ll have to get it from the tap.
  • Is the tap water here safe to drink?
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  informalmedicinesciencesA 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.

  • abdominal tap    pleural tap    spinal tap
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  Liquor drawn through a tap (etymology 1, noun sense 2.2); hence, a certain kind or quality of liquor; also (figurative, informal), a certain kind or quality of any thing.

  • a liquor of the same tap
  • Here he produced a decanter of curiously light wine, and a block of curiously heavy cake, and administered instalments of those dainties to the young people: at the same time, sending out a meagre servant to offer a glass of "something" to the postboy, who answered that he thanked the gentleman, but if it was the same tap as he had tasted before, he had rather not.
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  communicationcommunicationsgovernmentA device used to listen in secretly on telephone calls or other communications.

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  communicationcommunicationsgovernmentA secret interception of telephone calls or other communications using such a device; also, a recording of such a communication.

  • telephone tap
  • It is true—and undisputed—that, in the weeks between the 2016 election and Trump's inauguration, several top Obama administration officials asked the National Security Agency to reveal the identity of an American citizen overheard on phone taps speaking with Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak—a request known as "unmasking."
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  businessfinanceA 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.

  • bond tap    tap issue

tapverb詞源 1/tæp/

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  To furnish (a container, etc.) with a tap (noun etymology 1, noun sense 2.2) so that liquid can be drawn.

  • There's a very pretty brew in tap at The Pure Drop—though, to be sure, not so good as at Rolliver's.
  • Vladimir Putin, Russian prime minister, on Tuesday opened the tap to Nord Stream at a compressor station near Vyborg, north-west Russia.
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  To draw off (a liquid) from a container or other source; also, to draw off a liquid from (a container or other source).

  • He tapped the ten-year-old whiskey from its barrel.
  • If we tap the maple trees, we can get maple syrup.
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  informalmedicinesciencesTo draw off (a liquid) from a container or other source; also, to draw off a liquid from (a container or other source).

  • It is a hard thing to empty the vvater contained in the breaſt, becauſe the vvaies are not open by vvhich it ſhould be brought forth. Therefore Hippocrates doth adviſe to open the ſide, vvhich becauſe vve never ſee practiſed, and never read in any Author that it vvas done vvith good ſucceſs, vve cannot abſolutely approve; and vve may ſpeak of it as vve have of the Opening or Tapping for the Dropſie, in its proper Chapter.
  • […] I have, ever since my cure, been very thirsty and dropsical; therefore, I presume, it would be much better to tap me, and drink me off, than eat me at once, and have no man in the ship fit to be drunk.
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  To break into or open up (a thing) so as to obtain something; to exploit, to penetrate; tap into.

  • Businesses are trying to tap the youth market.
  • He tried to tap cable television without a subscription.
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  To deplete (something); to tap out.

  • At the range of a couple of hundred yards we emptied our magazines, firing bullet after bullet into the beasts, but with no more effect than if we were pelting them with pellets of paper. Their slow reptilian natures cared nothing for wounds, and the springs of their lives, with no special brain centre but scattered throughout their spinal cords, could not be tapped by any modern weapons.
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  informalTo 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.

  • I tried to tap a cigarette off him, but he wouldn’t give me one.
  • Thanks, old man, Hynes said. I'll tap him too. […] Three bob I lent him in Meagher's. Three weeks. Third hint.
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  communicationcommunicationsgovernmentTo 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).

  • They can’t tap the phone without a warrant.
  • mitchener. Why didn't you telephone? / balsquith. They tap the telephone. Every switchboard in London is in their hands, or in those of their young men.
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  card-gamesgamesTo turn over (a playing card or playing piece) to remind players that it has already been used in that round.

tapverb詞源 2/tæp/

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  To strike (someone or something), chiefly lightly with a clear sound, but sometimes hard.

  • Emma tapped Jim on the shoulder to get his attention.
  • Let vs then get vviſdome in the guiding of all our ſpeeches, and perſvvaſions. Imitate the threſher, vvhen thou art to deale vvith thy Brother; vvho firſt Tappeth his Corne in the ſheafe, before he lay on greater ſtroakes, for elſe the good graine vvould fly into euery corner, and the ſtravv not endure the flayle: ſo, begin by degrees vvith another, and vvhen he vvill endure Tapping, then ſmite harder, or elſe thou doſt but labour in vaine.
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  slangTo strike (someone or something), chiefly lightly with a clear sound, but sometimes hard.

  • We are certainly scented here, and I walk about like a barrel of beer at Christmas, under hourly apprehension of being tapped!
  • "You have to pack up and get out of there, girl. You could end up being tapped for that pimp's murder. The police ain't gonna hear about finding your aunt Viv. Or about Andre's butt. What are y'all going to do if they point the finger at him? If the cops over there are like they are over here, they ain't gonna look no further than the first black man they can put their hands on. They'll put his long legs under the jail."
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  vulgarslangTo strike (someone or something), chiefly lightly with a clear sound, but sometimes hard.

  • I would tap that hot girl over there.
  • I’d tap that.
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  slangTo strike (someone or something), chiefly lightly with a clear sound, but sometimes hard.

  • Heard that, too, Rose said. A thirtyeight revolver. Only you tapped him with a rifle from a hundred yards out.
  • Not something he worried a lot about since in his line of work, chances were better than good that he wasn't going to live that long. When your job was to step between a bullet and its intended recipient, sooner or later you were going to be tapped, for sure.
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  To (lightly) touch (a finger, foot, or other body part) on a surface, often repeatedly.

  • You can pay by tapping your card.
  • He was so nervous he began to tap his fingers on the table.
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  To (lightly) touch (a finger, foot, or other body part) on a surface, often repeatedly.

  • Next, tap on the browser to get on the internet.
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  To (lightly) touch (a finger, foot, or other body part) on a surface, often repeatedly.

  • The therapist tapped him when he was overcome by anxiety.
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  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.

  • Hard to believe Kimo [Leopoldo] used a triangle choke to tap [Kazushi] Sak[uraba], but 4 years can make a difference.
  • Just started bjj [Brazilian jiu-jitsu] couple of months ago and i finally tapped someone!!! WOOOHOO! The guy i tapped has been traiing a few more months than me, outweighs me by at least 30 pounds, and is in great shape from the army.

tapnoun詞源 2/tæp/

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  A light blow or strike with a clear sound; a gentle rap; a pat; also, the sound made by such a blow or strike.

  • When Steve felt a tap on his shoulder, he turned around.
  • And much greater is the wrong that rewardeth euill for good, than that which requireth tip for tap: […]
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  informalThe smallest amount of work; a stroke of work.

  • For to the first floor his duties never took him, at this period, nor to the second, once he had made his bed, and swept clean his little room, which he did every morning the first thing, before coming down, on an empty stomach. Whereas Erskine never did a tap on the ground floor, but all his duties were on the first floor.
  • That put an end to work. They've hardly done a tap since. By now we should have half the season's copra stacked and ready for shipping. But you saw the plantation. Nothing done at all.
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  dancedancinghobbiesOne of the metal pieces attached to the sole of a tap dancer's shoe at the toe and heel to cause a tapping sound.

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  slangengineeringfirearmsgovernmentA shot fired from a firearm.

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  computingengineeringgraphical-user-interfaceAn 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.

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  human-scienceslinguisticsphoneticsA single muscle contraction in vocal organs causing a consonant sound; also, the sound so made.

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  dialectalA 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.

  • She had a good figure, was twenty-one, five-feet-five, hair probably brown (dyed blond), brown cloth coat, rabbit-skin collar, cotton print dress, brown calf shoes (heel taps a little run over), scuff on the right toe.

tapnoun詞源 3/tæp/

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  A malarial fever.

  • According to the Yunani hakims dengue is a "tap safrow"—a fever due to excess of bile, and it is wonderful the amount of dark colored bile that passes away after a purgative, especially if that is not administered until the third day.
  • […] in despair, he fell back on the unfailing reason (to the native mind) for every unaccountable action, and declared that the horses had tap, or fever. ¶ "Oh, that's all nonsense, Sooka!" replied Blunt to this assertion of his subordinate. They were walking along between the rows of stalls, making their morning inspection, and closely examining into the condition of every animal: "that's all nonsense! there's no tap here. Every one of them is as cool and nice as he can be—perfect pictures of condition most of them, No, no; there's no fever whatever amongst them."

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• talk aloud protocol
• think aloud protocol
• total audience package
• The Ada Project
• taphouse or taproom
• tap dance