different between clout vs tap

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kla?t/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /kl??t/
• Rhymes: -a?t

Etymology 1

From Middle English clout, from Old English cl?t, from Proto-Germanic *kl?taz, from Proto-Indo-European *gelewdos, from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to ball up, amass”). Cognate with Old Norse klútr (“kerchief”), Swedish klut, Danish klud, Middle High German kl?z (“lump”), whence German Kloß, and dialect Russian ????? (gluda). See also cleat. The sense “influence, especially political” originated in the dialect of Chicago, but has become widespread.

Noun

clout (countable and uncountable, plural clouts)

1. Influence or effectiveness, especially political.
2. (regional, informal) A blow with the hand.
   • 1910, Katherine Mansfield, Frau Brenchenmacher Attends A Wedding

     ‘Such a clout on the ear as you gave me… But I soon taught you.’

3. (baseball, informal) A home run.
   • 2011, Michael Vega, "Triple double", in The Boston Globe, August 17, 2011, p. C1.

     '... allowed Boston to score all of its runs on homers, including a pair of clouts by Jacoby Ellsbury ...'

4. (archery) The center of the butt at which archers shoot; probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head.
   • c. 1594, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, Act IV, Scene 1,^[4]

     A’ must shoot nearer or he’ll ne’er hit the clout.

5. (regional, dated) A swaddling cloth.
6. (archaic) A cloth; a piece of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 1, Canto 9, p. 129,^[5]

     His garment nought but many ragged clouts, / With thornes together pind and patched was, / The which his naked sides he wrapt abouts;

   • c. 1600 William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2,^[6]

     […] a clout upon that head

     Where late the diadem stood […]

   • 1743, Robert Drury, The Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar, London, p. 74,^[7]

     We condol’d with each other, and observ’d how wretchedly we look’d, all naked, except a small Clout about our Middles […]
7. (archaic) An iron plate on an axletree or other wood to keep it from wearing; a washer.
8. (obsolete) A piece; a fragment.
   • c. 1390s, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, “The Merchant’s Tale,” lines 707-709, in The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, London: Bell & Daldy, 1866, Volume 2, p. 339,^[8]

     And whan sche of this bille hath taken heede, / Sche rente it al to cloutes atte laste / And into the privy softely it caste.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

clout (third-person singular simple present clouts, present participle clouting, simple past and past participle clouted)

1. To hit, especially with the fist.
2. To cover with cloth, leather, or other material; to bandage, patch, or mend with a clout.
   • 15 March, 1549, Hugh Latimer, The Second Sermon preached before the King's Majesty at Westminster

     Paul, yea, and Peter, too, had more skill in […] clouting an old tent than to teach lawyers.

3. To stud with nails, as a timber, or a boot sole.
4. To guard with an iron plate, as an axletree.
5. To join or patch clumsily.

Translations

Etymology 2

Verb

clout (third-person singular simple present clouts, present participle clouting, simple past and past participle clouted)

1. Dated form of clot.
   • 1948, The Essex Review

     He tells us how to butter eggs, boil eels, clout cream, stew capons, how to make a fine cake, an almond pudding and a raspberry conserve, […]

References

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English cl?t, from Proto-West Germanic *kl?t, from Proto-Germanic *kl?taz. Compare cloud.

Alternative forms

• clowt, cloute, clowte, clowtt

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klu?t/

Noun

clout (plural cloutes)

1. A (smaller) piece of fabric; a shred:
   1. A patch (fabric for mending).
   2. A bandage or dressing (for wounds)
   3. rag, tatter (piece of clothing)
2. A (larger) piece of fabric; a cloth:
   1. Threadbare or inferior clothing.
   2. Cloth for wrapping babies; swaddling clothes.
   3. A burial shroud.
3. A washer; a round metal panel.
4. A fragment or shred.
5. A strike, blow or hit.

Related terms

• clouten
• clouting
• clowter

Descendants

• English: clout
• Scots: clout, cloot

References

• “cl?ut, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “cl?ut, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Verb

clout

1. Alternative form of clouten

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