different between tap vs clip

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

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: kl?p, IPA^(key): /kl?p/, [kl???p]
• Rhymes: -?p

Etymology 1

From Middle English clippen, cleppen, clüppen, from Old English clyppan (“to hug, embrace, cherish, clasp”), from Proto-Germanic *klumpijan?, from Proto-Indo-European *glemb-, *glemb?- (“lump, clump, clod, clamp”). Cognate with Old Frisian kleppa, klippa (“to hug, embrace”), Middle High German klimpen, klimpfen (“to contract tightly, constrict, squeeze”).

Verb

clip (third-person singular simple present clips, present participle clipping, simple past and past participle clipped)

1. To grip tightly.
2. To fasten with a clip.

3. (archaic) To hug, embrace.
   • 1922 , James Joyce, Ulysses, chapter III:^[1]

     White thy fambles, red thy gan
     And thy quarrons dainty is.
     Couch a hogshead with me then.
     In the darkmans clip and kiss.

4. (slang) To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.

Translations

Noun

clip (plural clips)

1. Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.

2. An unspecified but normally understood as rapid speed or pace.

3. (obsolete) An embrace.
4. A frame containing a number of bullets which is intended to be inserted into the magazine of a firearm to allow for rapid reloading.
5. A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; a toe clip or beak.
   • 1831-1850, William Youatt, On the Structure and the Diseases of the Horse

     The heel - clips are two clips at the heels of the side bars , which correspond to the toe - clip ; the latter embracing the toe of the crust , whilst the former embrace its heels

6. (fishing, Britain, Scotland) A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (kurippu)

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English clippen, from Old Norse klippa (“to clip, cut the hair, shear sheep”). Cognate with Icelandic klippa (“to clip”), Swedish klippa (“to clip”), Danish klippe (“to clip”), Norwegian Bokmål klippe (“to clip”).

Verb

clip (third-person singular simple present clips, present participle clipping, simple past and past participle clipt or clipped)

1. To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.
2. To curtail; to cut short.
   • 1712, Jonathan Swift, s:A Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue

     In London they clip their words after one manner about the court, another in the city, and a third in the suburbs.

3. (dialectal, informal) To strike with the hand.

4. To hit or strike, especially in passing.

5. (American football) An illegal tackle: Throwing the body across the back of an opponent's leg or hitting him from the back below the waist while moving up from behind unless the opponent is a runner or the action is in close line play.
6. (signal processing) To cut off a signal level at a certain maximum value.
7. (computer graphics) To discard (an occluded part of a model or scene) rather than waste resources on rendering it.
8. (computer graphics, transitive, intransitive) (Of a camera, character model, etc.) To move (through or into) (a rendered object or barrier).
   1. (computer graphics, ergative) To move the camera, a character model, or another object (through or into a rendered object or barrier).

9. To cheat, swindle, or fleece.
10. to grab or take stealthily

Derived terms

• clipjoint, clip-joint, clip joint
• clip it

Translations

Noun

clip (countable and uncountable, plural clips)

1. Something which has been clipped from a larger whole:
   1. The product of a single shearing of sheep.
   2. A season's crop of wool.
   3. A section of video taken from a film, broadcast, or other longer video

   4. A newspaper clipping.
2. An act of clipping, such as a haircut.

3. (uncountable, Tyneside) The condition of something, its state.

4. (informal) A blow with the hand (often in the set phrase clip round the ear)

Derived terms

• clip show

Translations

References

• Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, ?ISBN
• National Football League (2007). Official Rules of the National Football League 2007. Triumph Books.

Anagrams

• ILPC

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English clip.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klip/

Noun

clip m (plural clips)

1. music video
2. clip-on (earring)

Derived terms

• vidéoclip

Further reading

• “clip” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Irish

Etymology

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

Verb

clip (present analytic clipeann, future analytic clipfidh, verbal noun clipeadh, past participle clipthe)

1. (transitive) prick; tease, torment
2. (transitive) tire, wear, out

Conjugation

Derived terms

Mutation

Further reading

• "clip" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “clip” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “clip” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English clip.

Noun

clip m (invariable)

1. clip
2. paper clip

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English clip.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?klip/, [?klip]

Noun

clip m (plural clips)

1. paper clip

   Synonym: sujetapapeles

2. clip (something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.)

3. clip (a frame containing a number of bullets which is intended to be inserted into the magazine of a firearm to allow for rapid reloading.)

   Synonym: fragmento