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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pæd/
• Hyphenation: pad
• Rhymes: -æd

Etymology 1

1554, "bundle of straw to lie on", probably from Low German or West Flemish pad (“sole of the foot”), perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to pass”), which would make it related to both path and find.

Noun

pad (plural pads)

1. A flattened mass of anything soft, to sit or lie on.
2. A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame.
3. A soft, or small, cushion.
4. A cushion-like thickening of the skin on the under side of the toes of animals.
5. The mostly hairless flesh located on the bottom of an animal's foot or paw.
6. Any cushion-like part of the human body, especially the ends of the fingers.
7. A stuffed guard or protection, especially one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising.
8. A soft bag or cushion to relieve pressure, support a part, etc.
9. A sanitary napkin.
10. (US) A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.
11. (cricket) A soft cover for a batsman's leg that protects it from damage when hit by the ball.
12. A kind of cushion for writing upon, or for blotting, especially one formed of many flat sheets of writing paper; now especially such a block of paper sheets as used to write on.
13. A panel or strip of material designed to be sensitive to pressure or touch.
14. A keypad.
15. A flat surface or area from which a helicopter or other aircraft may land or be launched.
16. An electrical extension cord with a multi-port socket on one end: "trip cord"
17. The effect produced by sustained lower reed notes in a musical piece, most common in blues music.
18. A synthesizer instrument sound used for sustained background sounds.

    Synonym: synth pad

19. (US, slang) A bed.
20. (colloquial) A small house, apartment, or mobile home occupied by a single person; such as a bachelor, playboy, etc.
21. (Britain, slang) A prison cell.
22. (cryptography) A random key (originally written on a disposable pad) of the same length as the plaintext.
23. A mousepad.
24. (electronics) The amount by which a signal has been reduced.
25. (nautical) A piece of timber fixed on a beam to fit the curve of the deck.
    • 1875, William Clark Russell, Jilted – Or My Uncle's Scheme

      let us at least trust that the hair-pins will do their duty, and maintain the respectability of passion by holding the pads and puffs and frizettes in their proper places.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• synth pad

Translations

Verb

pad (third-person singular simple present pads, present participle padding, simple past and past participle padded)

1. (transitive) To stuff.
2. (transitive) To furnish with a pad or padding.
3. (transitive) To increase the size of, especially by adding undesirable filler.

4. (transitive) To imbue uniformly with a mordant.

5. (transitive, cricket) To deliberately play the ball with the leg pad instead of the bat.

Derived terms

• well-padded

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English pade, padde, from Old English padde, from Proto-Germanic *padd? (“toad”). Cognate with Dutch pad, German Low German Pad (“toad”), dialectal German Padde, Danish padde, Swedish padda, Icelandic padda (“toad”), and possibly to English paddle.

Alternative forms

• padde

Noun

pad (plural pads)

1. (Britain, dialectal) A toad.

Derived terms

• paddock
• padstool
• shelpad

Etymology 3

From Dutch pad or Middle Low German pat (“path”). Doublet of path.

Noun

pad (plural pads)

1. (Britain, dialectal, Australia, Ireland) A footpath, particularly one unformed or unmaintained; a road or track. See footpad.
2. An easy-paced horse; a padnag.
   • 1842, Alfred Tennyson, The Lady of Shalott

     an abbot on an ambling pad

3. (Britain, obsolete) A robber that infests the road on foot; a highwayman or footpad.
   • 1720, John Gay, "Fables", in Poems on Several Occasions

     A Pad came pacing down the way :
     The Cur, with never-ceasing tongue ,
     Upon the passing trav'ler sprung

Derived terms

• on the pad

Etymology 4

Perhaps an alteration of ped.

Noun

pad (plural pads)

1. (Britain, dialectal) A type of wickerwork basket, especially as used as a measure of fish or other goods.

Etymology 5

Probably partly from Middle Low German [Term?], partly imitative. Some senses possibly influenced by pad (“soft part of an animal's foot”, noun).

Verb

pad (third-person singular simple present pads, present participle padding, simple past and past participle padded)

1. (transitive) To travel along (a road, path etc.).
   • 1727, William Somervile, The Fortune Hunter

     Padding the streets for half a crown.

2. (intransitive) To travel on foot.
3. (intransitive) To wear a path by walking.
   • 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XXII

     Who were the strugglers, what war did they wage, / Whose savage trample thus could pad the dank / Soil to a plash? [...]

4. (intransitive) To walk softly, quietly or steadily, especially without shoes.
   • 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

     Their feet padded softly on the ground, and they crept quite close to him, twitching their noses, while the Rabbit stared hard to see which side the clockwork stuck out...

5. (intransitive, obsolete) To practise highway robbery.
   • 1689, Cotton Mather, Memorable Providences, Relating to Witchcrafts and Possessions

     Their chief Argument is, That they never saw any Witches, therefore there are none. Just as if you or I should say, We never met with any Robbers on the Road, therefore there never was any Padding there.

Translations

Etymology 6

Probably imitative, perhaps related to or influenced by Etymology 5, above.

Interjection

pad

1. Indicating a soft flat sound, as of bare footsteps.

   I heard her soft footsteps, pad, pad along the corridor.

Translations

Noun

pad (plural pads)

1. The sound of soft footsteps, or a similar noise made by an animal etc.

Translations

Derived terms

• padless

References

• Pad on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• ADP, APD, DPA, PDA, dap

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch pad.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [p?t]

Noun

pad (plural paaie, diminutive paadjie)

1. path; way; street

Dutch

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch pat, from Old Dutch path, from Proto-Germanic *paþaz (“path”). Cognate with English path, West Frisian paad and German Pfad.

Noun

pad n (plural paden, diminutive paadje n)

1. path (narrow road, usually unpaved)

Derived terms

• bergpad
• bospad
• duinpad
• fietspad
• gangpad
• grindpad
• hazenpad
• kerkpad
• kiezelpad
• modderpad
• olifantenpad
• padvinder
• ruiterpad
• schelpenpad
• tuinpad
• voetpad
• wandelpad
• zandpad
• zijpad

Descendants

• Afrikaans: pad

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch padde, pedde, from Proto-Germanic *padd? (“toad”). Cognate with Old English padde (compare English paddock), Old Norse padda (Swedish padda, Danish/Norwegian padde).

Noun

pad f (plural padden, diminutive padje n)

1. toad (an amphibian of the order Anura similar to a frog with shorter legs and more ragged skin)

Derived terms

• bruine pad
• donderpad
• gewone pad
• groene pad
• knoflookpad
• paddenstoel
• paddentrek
• reuzenpad
• rugstreeppad
• schildpad
• Surinaamse pad
• vuurbuikpad
• vuurpad

Descendants

• Afrikaans: padda

Etymology 3

Noun

pad c (plural padden, diminutive padje n)

1. (cycling) The slot in the frame that accepts the axle of the wheel; dropout.

Hungarian

Etymology

From a Slavic language, compare Serbo-Croatian pod.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?p?d]
• Rhymes: -?d

Noun

pad (plural padok)

1. bench
2. (education) desk (of students in school, traditionally built together with the seats)

   Synonym: iskolapad

3. (religion) pew (in a church)
4. (law) dock (of the defendant, in court), stand (of a witness, in court)
5. (dialectal) attic, loft

   Synonym: padlás

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• pad in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pâ?d/

Noun

p?d m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. fall

Declension

Related terms

• p?sti

Volapük

Noun

pad (nominative plural pads)

1. page

Declension

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