different between fingerboard vs tapping

English

Etymology

finger +? board

Noun

fingerboard (plural fingerboards)

1. (music, lutherie) A flat or roughly flat strip on the neck of a stringed instrument, against which the strings are pressed to shorten the vibrating length and produce notes of higher pitches.
2. A miniature skateboard that is driven with the fingers.

Translations

References

• The Oxford English Dictionary

Anagrams

• board finger

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æp??

Noun

tapping (plural tappings)

1. An act of making a light hit or strike against something.
   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 20

     As he was speaking there was a soft tapping at the door. I went over and opened it […]
2. (music) A guitar technique in which the strings are tapped against the fingerboard
3. The process by which a resource is tapped or exploited.
   • 1938, Paul Burke Jacobs, Harry Paul Newton, Motor Fuels from Farm Products (page 99)

     Competitive tappings of a common oil pool can lead only to waste and overproduction, unless rigidly regulated […]

4. (electrical engineering) A connection made to some point between the end terminals of a transformer coil or other component.

Verb

tapping

1. present participle of tap

References

• “tapping”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.