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Tap   /tæp/   Listen
noun
Tap  n.  
1.
A gentle or slight blow; a light rap; a pat.
2.
A piece of leather fastened upon the bottom of a boot or shoe in repairing or renewing the sole or heel.
3.
pl. (Mil.) 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.


Tap  n.  
1.
A hole or pipe through which liquor is drawn.
2.
A plug or spile for stopping a hole pierced in a cask, or the like; a faucet.
3.
Liquor drawn through a tap; hence, a certain kind or quality of liquor; as, a liquor of the same tap. (Colloq.)
4.
A place where liquor is drawn for drinking; a taproom; a bar. (Colloq.)
5.
(Mech.) A tool for forming an internal screw, as in a nut, consisting of a hardened steel male screw grooved longitudinally so as to have cutting edges.
On tap.
(a)
Ready to be drawn; as, ale on tap.
(b)
Broached, or furnished with a tap; as, a barrel on tap.
Plug tap (Mech.), a screw-cutting tap with a slightly tapering end.
Tap bolt, a bolt with a head on one end and a thread on the other end, to be screwed into some fixed part, instead of passing through the part and receiving a nut.
Tap cinder (Metal.), the slag of a puddling furnace.


verb
Tap  v. t.  (past & past part. tapped; pres. part. tapping)  
1.
To strike with a slight or gentle blow; to touch gently; to rap lightly; to pat; as, to tap one with the hand or a cane.
2.
To put a new sole or heel on; as, to tap shoes.


Tap  v. t.  
1.
To pierce so as to let out, or draw off, a fluid; as, to tap a cask, a tree, a tumor, a keg of beer, etc.
2.
Hence, to draw resources from (a reservoir) in any analogous way; as, to tap someone's knowledge of the Unix system; to tap the treasury.
3.
To draw, or cause to flow, by piercing. "He has been tapping his liquors."
4.
(Mech.) To form an internal screw in (anything) by means of a tool called a tap; as, to tap a nut, a pipe, or tubing.
5.
To connect a listening device to (a telephone or telegraph line) secretly, for the purpose of hearing private conversations; also, to obtain or record (information) by tapping; a technique used by law enforcement agencies investigating suspected criminals. In the United States it is illegal without a court order permitting it.


Tap  v. i.  To strike a gentle blow.





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"Tap" Quotes from Famous Books



... person, Sir,' repeated O'Flaherty, 'by striking, kicking, or whipping any part or mimber of his body; or offering a milder assault, such as a pull by the chin, or a finger-tap upon the nose. It is usual, Sir, for the purpose of avoiding ungentlemanlike noise, inconvenience, and confusion, that one gentleman should request of another to suppose himself affronted in the manner, whatever it may be, most intolerable ...
— The House by the Church-Yard • J. Sheridan Le Fanu
... slept for several hours when she was wakened by a soft tap on her shoulder. She opened her eyes and would have ...
— The Heart of the Desert - Kut-Le of the Desert • Honore Willsie Morrow
... to enter the narrow door of the tavern. Wedged in the doorway, each thought the other holding him. Fighting, cussing, scratching, they were pulled into the big tap room filled with guests. All imagined the two hostlers were fighting and ...
— Watch Yourself Go By • Al. G. Field
... we poets had to do with this military person—who served under the lilies at the siege of Gibraltar that ended so badly in the year 1783, and who did a great deal of very pretty fighting later under the tri-colour—I am sure I do not know! Then on we went, to the quick tap of the drums, the Mayor and the glittering firemen preceding us, to the laying of a corner-stone that really was in our line: that of a monument to the memory of the dramatist Emile Augier. Here, naturally, M. Jules Claretie came to the fore. In the parlance ...
— The Christmas Kalends of Provence - And Some Other Provencal Festivals • Thomas A. Janvier
... should have been borne in triumphal procession to his last resting place. Bells should have tolled, cannon thundered, and thousands should have followed his bier. But now, alas, by night, by stealth, without even a single drum tap, in fear and dread, we crept breathless to the rampart. This, or any one of a hundred other paraphrases, will suffice to render the vocal movement slow. And so it is with all slow time. Let it be remembered that a profound ...
— Elson Grammer School Literature, Book Four. • William H. Elson and Christine Keck


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