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English

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zæp/
• Rhymes: -æp

Noun

zap (plural zaps)

1. (colloquial) A sound made by a sudden release of electricity or some similar energy.
2. (colloquial) An electric shock.

   You might feel a little zap touching a metal doorknob when the air is dry.

3. A raucous public demonstration designed to embarrass a public figure or celebrity as a form of political activism.
   • 1998, Raymond A. Smith, Encyclopedia of AIDS

     Black AIDS activists were caught in the middle of a nearly yearlong series of zaps.

   • 2011, Michael Schiavi, Celluloid Activist: The Life and Times of Vito Russo (page 84)

     When a zap at Brooklyn's Board of Education opened no dialogue on discrimination suffered by gay teachers, GAA targeted the BOE offices on April 13.

Translations

Verb

zap (third-person singular simple present zaps, present participle zapping, simple past and past participle zapped)

1. (intransitive) To make a zap sound.
2. To use a remote control to repeatedly change channels on a television.

   Synonyms: channel surf, channel hop

3. To strike (something or someone) with electricity or energy, as by shooting.

   They spent the whole movie zapping bad guys into oblivion.

4. (US, military, slang, transitive) To kill; to eliminate.
   • 1966, U.S. News & World Report (volume 61, page 32)

     Says a U. S. officer: "We zapped the enemy, now we intend to stick around. […]

5. To damage (especially electronics) with electrostatic discharge.

   I think they zapped the processor.

6. To heat (something) in a microwave oven.

   If it's not warm in the middle; zap it some more.

7. To delete or discard (electronic media).

   They zapped a lot of files before realizing they had not backed up lately.

8. To further energize or charge (magnetic material).

   They zapped my motor's magnets.

Descendants

Translations

Interjection

zap!

1. Representing the sound or action of a zap.

   Then the computer went zap and I lost all my work.

Translations

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

zap

1. first-person singular present indicative of zappen
2. imperative of zappen

Portuguese

Etymology

From the last part of "WhatsApp".

Noun

zap m (usually uncountable, plural zaps)

1. WhatsApp, the messaging service

English

Conjunction

zat

1. Pronunciation spelling of that. (usually signifying a foreign accent, often French).

Anagrams

• AZT, Taz

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /z?t/
• Hyphenation: zat
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch sat, from Old Dutch *sat, from Proto-Germanic *sadaz, from Proto-Indo-European *seh?-.

Adjective

zat (comparative zatter, superlative zatst)

1. sated, full, especially with alcoholic beverage, i.e. drunk

   Synonym: dronken

2. having had enough, having had it up to here, fed up

Inflection

Derived terms

• ladderzat
• stiepelzat (Flanders)
• zatlap

Determiner

zat

1. (informal) plenty

   Synonym: genoeg

Adverb

zat

1. (informal) enough

   Synonym: genoeg

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

zat

1. singular past indicative of zitten

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay zat, from Classical Malay dhat, dzat, zat, from Arabic ????? (??t, “being, essence, substance, nature”).

Noun

zat (first-person possessive zatku, second-person possessive zatmu, third-person possessive zatnya)

1. substance

Compounds

Turkmen

Etymology

From Arabic ????? (??t, “being, essence, substance, nature).

Noun

zat (definite accusative ?, plural ?)

1. thing