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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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tick
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?k/
- Rhymes: -?k
- Homophone: tic
Etymology 1
From Middle English tyke, teke, from Old English ticia (“parasitic animal, tick”), from Proto-Germanic *t?kkô, suffixed variant of Proto-Germanic *t?gô, compare Dutch teek, German Zecke.
Noun
tick (plural ticks)
- A tiny woodland arachnid of the suborder Ixodida.
- Hypernyms: ectoparasite, arachnid
Derived terms
- detick
- tick bean
- tick trefoil
Translations
Further reading
- tick on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- tick on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Ixodida on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Ixodida on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Etymology 2
From Middle English tek (“light touch, tap”)
Noun
tick (plural ticks)
- A relatively quiet but sharp sound generally made repeatedly by moving machinery.
- A mark on any scale of measurement; a unit of measurement.
- (computing) A jiffy (unit of time defined by basic timer frequency).
- (colloquial) A short period of time, particularly a second.
- Synonym: sec
- (video games) A periodic increment of damage or healing caused by an ongoing status effect.
- (Australia, New Zealand, Britain, Ireland) A mark (?) made to indicate agreement, correctness or acknowledgement.
- Synonym: checkmark
- (birdwatching) A bird seen (or heard) by a birdwatcher, for the first time that day, year, trip, etc., and thus added to a list of observed birds.
- (ornithology) The whinchat.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
tick (third-person singular simple present ticks, present participle ticking, simple past and past participle ticked)
- To make a clicking noise similar to the movement of the hands in an analog clock.
- To make a tick or checkmark.
- (informal) To work or operate, especially mechanically.
- To strike gently; to pat.
- 1550 (in Lent), Hugh Latimer, last sermon preached before King Edward VI
- Stand not ticking and toying at the branches.
- 1550 (in Lent), Hugh Latimer, last sermon preached before King Edward VI
- (birdwatching) To add a bird to a list of birds that have been seen (or heard).
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 3
From Middle English tike, probably from Middle Dutch, from Latin theca (“cover”).
Noun
tick (countable and uncountable, plural ticks)
- (uncountable) Ticking.
- A sheet that wraps around a mattress; the cover of a mattress, containing the filling.
Synonyms
- ticking
Derived terms
- ticking
Translations
Etymology 4
Clipping of ticket.
Noun
tick (uncountable)
- (Britain, colloquial) Credit, trust.
- Synonyms: credit, trust
- 1903, Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh, ch. 42:
- Immediately he got any money he would pay his debt; if there was any over he would spend it; if there was not—and there seldom was—he would begin to go on tick again.
- 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York 2007, p. 190:
- He paid his mother-in-law rent and, when the baker or the butcher or the grocer wouldn't let her have any more on tick, he paid the bills.
Translations
Verb
tick (third-person singular simple present ticks, present participle ticking, simple past and past participle ticked)
- (intransitive) To go on trust, or credit.
- (transitive) To give tick; to trust.
Etymology 5
From Middle English tik-, tic-, tike-, tiken- (in compounds), an unassibilated form of Middle English tiche, tichen (“young goat”), from Old English ti??en (“young goat; kid”), from Proto-West Germanic *tikk?n (“goatling”), diminutive of Proto-West Germanic *tig? (“goat”). Cognate with regional German Zicke (“nanny goat”), from Ziege (“goat; nanny goat”).
Noun
tick (plural ticks)
- (obsolete, place names) A goat.
Usage notes
- Nowadays only found in place names. Fell out of common usage in the 13th century.
Swedish
Noun
tick n
- tick (quiet but sharp sound)
Declension
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