different between tapping vs zapping

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.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?zæp??/
• Rhymes: -æp??

Verb

zapping

1. Present participle and gerund of zap.

Noun

zapping (plural zappings)

1. The act or result of being zapped.

French

Etymology

From the gerund form zapping of English zap.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /za.pi?/
• Rhymes: -i?

Noun

zapping m (uncountable)

1. zapping, channel hopping, channel surfing

Further reading

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

Galician

Etymology

From the gerund form zapping of English zap.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??apin/

Noun

zapping m (plural zappings)

1. zapping, channel hopping, channel surfing

Usage notes

The verb form (to channel hop) is formed with facer (facer zapping) or is also zapear.

Synonyms

• zapeo

Related terms

• zapear

Portuguese

Etymology

From the gerund form zapping of English zap.

Noun

zapping m (plural zappings)

1. zapping, channel hopping, channel surfing

Usage notes

The verb form (to channel hop) is formed with fazer (facer zapping) or is also zapear and zapar

Related terms

• zapear, zapar

Spanish

Etymology

From the gerund form zapping of English zap.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /??apin/, [??a.p?n]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /?sapin/, [?sa.p?n]

Noun

zapping m (plural zappings)

1. (Spain) zapping, channel hopping, channel surfing

   Synonym: zapeo

Usage notes

The verb form (to channel hop) is formed with hacer (hacer zapping) or is also zapear.

Related terms

• zapear