Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word tap. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in tap.
Definitions and meaning of tap
tap
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /tæp/, [tʰæp]
(South Wales) IPA(key): /tɐːp/
Rhymes: -æp
Etymology 1
From Middle Englishtappe, from Old Englishtæppa, from Proto-Germanic*tappô. The verb is from Middle Englishtappen, from Old Englishtæppian, from Proto-Germanic*tappōną, from the noun.
Noun
tap (pluraltaps)
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
Translations
Verb
tap (third-person singular simple presenttaps, present participletapping, simple past and past participletapped)
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 Englishtappen, teppen, from Old Frenchtapper, taper(“to tap”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish*tappōn, *dabbōn(“to strike”) or from Middle Low Germantappen, tapen("to tap, rap, strike"); both ultimately from Proto-Germanic*dab-(“to strike”), from Proto-Indo-European*dʰAbʰ-(“to beat, strike, stun, be speechless”). Related to Germantappen(“to grope, fumble”), Icelandictappa, tapsa, tæpta(“to tap”). Related to dab.
Verb
tap (third-person singular simple presenttaps, present participletapping, simple past and past participletapped)
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 (pluraltaps)
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 [ɾ] in the standard American English pronunciation of body.
Synonym:flap
Short for tap of work.
1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt
For to the first floor his duties never took him, at this period, nor to the second, once he had made his bed, and swept clean his little room, which he did every morning the first thing, before coming down, on an empty stomach. Whereas Erskine never did a tap on the ground floor, but all his duties were on the first floor.
Translations
Etymology 3
From Persian or Urduتب (tab, “malarial fever”), ultimately from Sanskritताप(tāpa, “fever; heat; pain, torment”).
Noun
tap
An Indian malarial fever.
Derived terms
doolally tap
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): /ˈtap/
Rhymes: -ap
Noun
tapm (pluraltaps)
tap, spigot, plug
(castells) A casteller inserted into an empty space in a pinya to make it more compact
From Middle Dutchtappe(“closing pin, stopper”), from Old Dutch*tappo, from Proto-Germanic*tappô.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /tɑp/
Hyphenation: tap
Rhymes: -ɑp
Noun
tapm (pluraltappen, diminutivetapjen)
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.
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Pronunciation
IPA(key): /tap/
Adverb
tap (Perso-Arabic spellingتپ)
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 Pacohtâp(“to bury”), Riang [Lang] tap² ("to dam"), Maltʰap ("to bury"), Monတိုပ်(“to bury”), Vietnameseđắp(“to cover something with a layer”).