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English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bl??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /blo?/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

From Middle English blowen, from Old English bl?wan (“to blow, breathe, inflate, sound”), from Proto-West Germanic *bl?an, from Proto-Germanic *bl?an? (“to blow”) (compare German blähen), from Proto-Indo-European *b?leh?- (“to swell, blow up”) (compare Latin fl? (“to blow”) and Old Armenian ?????? (be?un, “fertile”)).

Verb

blow (third-person singular simple present blows, present participle blowing, simple past blew, past participle blown)

1. (intransitive) To produce an air current.
   • 1653, Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler

     Hark how it rains and blows!

2. (transitive) To propel by an air current.

3. (intransitive) To be propelled by an air current.

4. (transitive) To create or shape by blowing; as in to blow bubbles, to blow glass.
5. To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means.

6. To clear of contents by forcing air through.

7. (transitive) To cause to make sound by blowing, as a musical instrument.
8. (intransitive) To make a sound as the result of being blown.
9. (intransitive, of a cetacean) To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while feeding.
10. (intransitive) To explode.

11. (transitive, with "up" or with prep phrase headed by "to") To cause to explode, shatter, or be utterly destroyed.

12. (transitive) To cause sudden destruction of.

13. (intransitive) To suddenly fail destructively.

14. (intransitive) (used to express displeasure or frustration) Damn.
15. (intransitive, slang, sometimes considered vulgar) To be very undesirable.

    Synonym: suck

16. (transitive, slang) To recklessly squander.

17. (transitive, vulgar) To fellate; to perform oral sex on (usually a man)

    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:give head

18. (transitive, slang) To leave, especially suddenly or in a hurry.

19. To make flyblown, to defile, especially with fly eggs.
20. (obsolete) To spread by report; to publish; to disclose.

    • Through the court his courtesy was blown.

21. (obsolete) To inflate, as with pride; to puff up.
22. (intransitive) To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
23. (transitive) To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Walter Scott to this entry?)

24. (dated) To talk loudly; boast; storm.
    • a. 1940, Mildred Haun, "Shin-Bone Rocks" in The Hawk's Done Gone p. 218:

      He didn't just set around and try to out sweettalk somebody; he got out and out-fit somebody. He wouldn't be blowing when he told his boys how he fit for the woman he got.

    • 1969, Charles Ambrose McCarthy, The Great Molly Maguire Hoax (page 113)

      At the breaking edge with him and completely fed up with his everlasting bragging and blowing about his personal exploits, and desirous of putting him somewhere, anywhere, so they wouldn't be continuously annoyed by him, […]

    • 1976, David Toulmin, Blown Seed (page 148)

      Audie never liked him because he was further in with old Craig than he was, bragging and blowing about his work and the things he could do, while Audie sat quiet as a mouse listening to his blab.

25. (slang, informal, African-American Vernacular) To sing.

26. (Scientology, intransitive) To leave the Church of Scientology in an unauthorized manner.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

blow (plural blows)

1. A strong wind.

2. (informal) A chance to catch one’s breath.

3. (uncountable, US, slang) Cocaine.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:cocaine
4. (uncountable, Britain, slang) Cannabis.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:marijuana

5. (uncountable, US Chicago Regional, slang) Heroin.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:heroin

6. (informal, vulgar) A blowjob; fellatio

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:oral sex

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English blo, bloo, from Old English bl?w (“blue”), from Proto-Germanic *bl?waz (“blue, dark blue, grey, black”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?l?w- (“yellow, blond, grey”). Cognate with Latin flavus (“yellow”). Doublet of blue.

Adjective

blow (comparative blower or more blow, superlative blowest or most blow)

2. (now chiefly dialectal, Northern England) Blue.

Etymology 3

From Middle English blowe, blaw, northern variant of bl?we, from Proto-Germanic *blewwan? (“to beat”) (compare Old Norse blegði (“wedge”), German bläuen, Middle Dutch blouwen). Related to block.

Noun

blow (plural blows)

1. The act of striking or hitting.

   Synonyms: bace, strike, hit, punch

2. A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
   • 1838-1842', Thomas Arnold, History of Rome

     A vigorous blow might win [Hanno's camp].

3. A damaging occurrence.

   Synonyms: disaster, calamity
4. (Australia, shearing, historical) A cut made to a sheep's fleece by a shearer using hand-shears.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 4

From Middle English blowen, from Old English bl?wan, from Proto-Germanic *bl?an? (compare Dutch bloeien, German blühen), from Proto-Indo-European *b?leh?- (compare Latin flor?re (“to bloom”)).

Verb

blow (third-person singular simple present blows, present participle blowing, simple past blew, past participle blown)

1. To blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 4 Scene 1

     You seem to me as Dian in her orb,

     As chaste as is the bud ere it be blown;

   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 5

     How blows the citron grove.

Related terms

• full-blown

Translations

Noun

blow (plural blows)

1. A mass or display of flowers; a yield.
2. A display of anything brilliant or bright.
3. A bloom, state of flowering.

Related terms

• ablow
• elder-blow

Translations

Anagrams

• bowl

Middle English

Verb

blow

1. Alternative form of blowen (“to blow”)

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tæp/, [t?æp]
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /t??p/
• Rhymes: -æp

Etymology 1

From Middle English tappe, from Old English tæppa, from Proto-Germanic *tappô. The verb is from Middle English tappen, from Old English tæppian, from Proto-Germanic *tapp?n?, from the noun.

Noun

tap (plural taps)

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

   Synonyms: spigot, spile

2. A device used to dispense liquids.

   Synonyms: faucet, handle, spigot, spout

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

4. A place where liquor is drawn for drinking.

   Synonyms: taproom, bar

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

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

7. An interception of communication by authority.
8. A device used to listen in secretly on telephone calls. [from 20th c.]
9. (medicine, informal) A procedure that removes fluid from a body cavity.

   Synonym: paracentesis

10. (finance) The 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.

    tap issue; a bond tap

Derived terms

• tapless
• taproom
• taproot
• tap water

Translations

Verb

tap (third-person singular simple present taps, present participle tapping, simple past and past participle tapped)

1. To furnish with taps.

2. To draw off liquid from a vessel.

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

5. To place a listening or recording device on a telephone or wired connection. [from 19th c.]
6. To intercept a communication without authority.

   Synonym: eavesdrop

7. (mechanical) To cut an internal screw thread.

8. (card games, board games) 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).
9. (informal) To cadge, borrow or beg.

10. (medicine, informal) To drain off fluid by paracentesis.
11. To advance someone for a post or job, or for membership of a club.

Derived terms

• on tap
• on the tap
• tap into
• tapped out
• tap to pay

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English tappen, teppen, from Old French tapper, taper (“to tap”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *tapp?n, *dabb?n (“to strike”) or from Middle Low German tappen, tapen ("to tap, rap, strike"); both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *dab- (“to strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?Ab?- (“to beat, strike, stun, be speechless”). Related to German tappen (“to grope, fumble”), Icelandic tappa, tapsa, tæpta (“to tap”). Related to dab.

Verb

tap (third-person singular simple present taps, present participle tapping, simple past and past participle tapped)

1. To strike lightly. [from early 13th c.]

2. To touch one's finger, foot, or other body parts on a surface (usually) repeatedly.

   Synonyms: hit, patter, pound, rap, strike; see also Thesaurus:hit

3. To make a sharp noise.

   Synonyms: hit, bang, ping, rap

4. (graphical user interface) To operate an electronic device (e.g. a mobile phone) by tapping a specific place on its (capacitive or other) touch screen.

   Coordinate term: click
5. To designate for some duty or for membership, as in 'a tap on the shoulder'. [from mid-20th c.]
6. (slang, vulgar, transitive) To have sexual intercourse with.

   Synonyms: go to bed with, hit, sleep with, wap; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
7. (combat sports) To submit to an opponent by tapping one's hand repeatedly.

   Synonym: tap out

8. (combat sports, transitive) To force (an opponent) to submit.

   Synonym: tap out
9. To put a new sole or heel on.

Translations

Noun

tap (plural taps)

1. A gentle or slight blow; a light rap; a pat.

   • each of them shakes her Fan at me with a smile , then gives her right-hand woman a tap upon the shoulder

2. (dance) Ellipsis of tap dance.
3. (computing, graphical user interface) The act of touching a touch screen.

   Coordinate term: click

4. A piece of leather fastened upon the bottom of a boot or shoe in repairing or renewing the sole or heel.

   Synonym: heeltap

5. (military) A signal, by drum or trumpet, for extinguishing all lights in soldiers' quarters and retiring to bed; usually given about a quarter of an hour after tattoo.
6. (phonetics) A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound [?] in the standard American English pronunciation of body.

   Synonym: flap

Translations

Etymology 3

Hindi [Term?]

Noun

tap

1. An Indian malarial fever.

References

Anagrams

• APT, ATP, PAT, PTA, Pat, TPA, ap't, apt, apt., pat

Albanian

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Noun

tap

1. struck, hit

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?tap/
• Rhymes: -ap

Noun

tap m (plural taps)

1. tap, spigot
2. (castells) A casteller inserted into an empty space in a pinya to make it more compact

Derived terms

• ésser un tap de barral

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Danish tapp.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tap/, [?t??b?]

Noun

tap c (singular definite tappen, plural indefinite tappe or tapper)

1. (mechanics) protruding component of a device
2. (anatomy) cone cell
3. (informal) penis
4. (erotic literature) clitoris
   • 2014, Hans Otto Jørgensen, Ove gasser op: Udvalgte noveller, Gyldendal A/S (?ISBN)

     Hun kælede for hullet med spidsen, krængede lapperne yderligere, og så fandeme kom også dér tappen til syne.

   • 2014, 2016, Christian Møgeltoft, Uskyld, Lindhardt og Ringhof (?ISBN)

     Da hans tunge fandt den lille hårde tap, klynkede hun som et barn, der bliver slået.

Inflection

Etymology 2

Acronym of teknisk-administrativt personale.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tap/, [?t??b?]

Noun

tap c (singular definite tap'en, plural indefinite tap'er)

1. member of technical and administrative staff

Inflection

Etymology 3

Verb

tap

1. imperative of tappe

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch tappe (“closing pin, stopper”), from Old Dutch *tappo, from Proto-Germanic *tappô.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?p/
• Hyphenation: tap
• Rhymes: -?p

Noun

tap m (plural tappen, diminutive tapje n)

1. tap

Usage notes

Although this term can be used to mean a tap from which water flows, this usage is rare; the more common term is kraan. It is most commonly used to refer to a beer tap.

Synonyms

• kraan

Derived terms

• biertap
• flappentap
• tapbier
• tappen

Descendants

• Afrikaans: tap

Icelandic

Etymology

From tapa (“to lose”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?a?p/
• Rhymes: -a?p

Noun

tap n (genitive singular taps, nominative plural töp)

1. loss, damage

Declension

Related terms

• tapa

K'iche'

Noun

tap

1. (Classical K'iche') crab

Lashi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tap/

Verb

tap

1. to make something burn
2. to make something stick

References

• Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid?^[4], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)

Middle English

Verb

tap

1. Alternative form of tappen (“to touch gently”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??p/

Noun

tap n (definite singular tapet, indefinite plural tap, definite plural tapa or tapene)

1. (a) loss

Derived terms

Related terms

• tape (Etymology 2)

References

• “tap” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??p/

Noun

tap n (definite singular tapet, indefinite plural tap, definite plural tapa)

1. (a) loss, defeat

Derived terms

References

• “tap” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Phalura

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tap/

Adverb

tap (Perso-Arabic spelling ??)

1. Co-lexicalized intensifier

References

• Liljegren, Henrik; Haider, Naseem (2011) Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)?^[5], Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, ?ISBN

Semai

Etymology

From Proto-Mon-Khmer. Cognate with Pacoh tâp (“to bury”), Riang [Lang] tap² ("to dam"), Mal t?ap ("to bury"), Mon ????? (“to bury”), Vietnamese ??p (“to cover something with a layer”).

Verb

tap

1. to bury

Synonyms

• (to bury): choop
• (to plant): chet

References

Spanish

Noun

tap m (uncountable)

1. tap, tap dancing