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decide
English
Etymology
From Middle English deciden, from Old French decider, from Latin d?c?dere, infinitive of d?c?d? (“cut off, decide”), from d? (“down from”) + caed? (“cut”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??sa?d/
Verb
decide (third-person singular simple present decides, present participle deciding, simple past and past participle decided)
- (transitive, intransitive) to resolve (a contest, problem, dispute, etc.); to choose, determine, or settle
- (intransitive) to make a judgment, especially after deliberation
- So shall thy judgment be; thyself hast decided it.
- (transitive) to cause someone to come to a decision
- 1920, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Three Gables" (Norton edition, 2005, page 1537),
- It decides me to look into the matter, for if it is worth anyone's while to take so much trouble, there must be something in it.
- 1920, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Three Gables" (Norton edition, 2005, page 1537),
- (obsolete) to cut off; to separate
- 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State and the Profane State
- Our seat denies us traffic here; / The sea, too near, decides us from the rest.
- 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State and the Profane State
Usage notes
- This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs
Synonyms
- make up one's mind
- choose
- determine
- pick
Related terms
Translations
Anagrams
- de-iced, deiced
Asturian
Verb
decide
- third-person singular present indicative of decidir
Esperanto
Etymology
From decidi +? -e.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /de?t?side/
- Rhymes: -ide
Adverb
decide
- decisively
- decidedly
Interlingua
Verb
decide
- present of decider
- imperative of decider
Italian
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ide
Verb
decide
- third-person singular present indicative of decidere
Anagrams
- decedi
Latin
Verb
d?c?de
- second-person singular present active imperative of d?c?d?
Middle English
Verb
decide
- Alternative form of deciden
Portuguese
Verb
decide
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of decidir
- second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of decidir
Romanian
Etymology
From French décider, from Latin d?c?d?.
Verb
a decide (third-person singular present decide, past participle decis) 3rd conj.
- to decide
- Synonym: hot?rî
Conjugation
Related terms
- decizie
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /de??ide/, [d?e??i.ð?e]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /de?side/, [d?e?si.ð?e]
Verb
decide
- Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of decidir.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of decidir.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of decidir.
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tap
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)
- A tapering cylindrical pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask.
- Synonyms: spigot, spile
- A device used to dispense liquids.
- Synonyms: faucet, handle, spigot, spout
- Liquor drawn through a tap; hence, a certain kind or quality of liquor.
- A place where liquor is drawn for drinking.
- Synonyms: taproom, bar
- (mechanics) A device used to cut an internal screw thread. (External screw threads are cut with a die.)
- A connection made to an electrical or fluid conductor without breaking it.
- An interception of communication by authority.
- A device used to listen in secretly on telephone calls. [from 20th c.]
- (medicine, informal) A procedure that removes fluid from a body cavity.
- Synonym: paracentesis
- (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)
- To furnish with taps.
- To draw off liquid from a vessel.
- To deplete, especially of a liquid via a tap; to tap out.
- To exploit.
- To place a listening or recording device on a telephone or wired connection. [from 19th c.]
- To intercept a communication without authority.
- Synonym: eavesdrop
- (mechanical) To cut an internal screw thread.
- (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).
- (informal) To cadge, borrow or beg.
- (medicine, informal) To drain off fluid by paracentesis.
- 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)
- To strike lightly. [from early 13th c.]
- 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
- To make a sharp noise.
- Synonyms: hit, bang, ping, rap
- (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
- To designate for some duty or for membership, as in 'a tap on the shoulder'. [from mid-20th c.]
- (slang, vulgar, transitive) To have sexual intercourse with.
- Synonyms: go to bed with, hit, sleep with, wap; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
- (combat sports) To submit to an opponent by tapping one's hand repeatedly.
- Synonym: tap out
- (combat sports, transitive) To force (an opponent) to submit.
- Synonym: tap out
- To put a new sole or heel on.
Translations
Noun
tap (plural taps)
- 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
- (dance) Ellipsis of tap dance.
- (computing, graphical user interface) The act of touching a touch screen.
- Coordinate term: click
- A piece of leather fastened upon the bottom of a boot or shoe in repairing or renewing the sole or heel.
- Synonym: heeltap
- (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.
- (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
- An Indian malarial fever.
References
Anagrams
- APT, ATP, PAT, PTA, Pat, TPA, ap't, apt, apt., pat
Albanian
Etymology
Onomatopoeic.
Noun
tap
- struck, hit
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /?tap/
- Rhymes: -ap
Noun
tap m (plural taps)
- tap, spigot
- (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)
- (mechanics) protruding component of a device
- (anatomy) cone cell
- (informal) penis
- (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.
- 2014, Hans Otto Jørgensen, Ove gasser op: Udvalgte noveller, Gyldendal A/S (?ISBN)
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)
- member of technical and administrative staff
Inflection
Etymology 3
Verb
tap
- 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)
- 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)
- loss, damage
Declension
Related terms
- tapa
K'iche'
Noun
tap
- (Classical K'iche') crab
Lashi
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tap/
Verb
tap
- to make something burn
- to make something stick
References
- Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid?[4], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)
Middle English
Verb
tap
- 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)
- (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)
- (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 ??)
- 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
- to bury
Synonyms
- (to bury): choop
- (to plant): chet
References
Spanish
Noun
tap m (uncountable)
- tap, tap dancing
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