Tapping is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TAPPING in dictionary:

VERB:
• draw liquid through the tap or spout of (a cask, barrel, or other container)
• draw (liquid) from a cask, barrel, or other container
• draw sap from (a tree) by cutting into it.
• exploit or draw a supply from (a resource)
• obtain money or information from (someone)
• connect a device to (a telephone) so that conversation can be listened to secretly
• cut a thread in (something) to accept a screw
• strike with a quick light blow or blows
• strike (something) against something else with a quick light blow or blows
• produce (a rhythm) with a series of quick light blows on a surface
• write or enter (something) using a keyboard or keypad
• approach (a sports player) unlawfully with a view to signing them to another club while they are still under contract with their current one.
• designate or select (someone) for a task or honour, especially membership of an organization or committee
NOUN:
• the act of tapping
• a device by which a flow of liquid or gas from a pipe or container can be controlled
• an electrical connection made to some point between the end terminals of a transformer coil or other component.
• an instrument for cutting a threaded hole in a material.
• a taproom.
• a quick light blow, or the sound of such a blow
• tap dancing
• a bugle call for lights to be put out in army quarters
• a bugle call sounded at a military funeral.
• (in the Guide movement) a closing song sung at an evening camp fire or at the end of a meeting.
• the sound of light blow or knock
• a device connected to a telephone for listening secretly to someone's conversations
• an act of listening secretly to someone's telephone conversation.
• a piece of metal attached to the toe and heel of a tap dancer's shoe to make a tapping sound.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to strike gently
• the process or means by which something is tapped

Words related to TAPPING

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Words that contain TAPPING

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How to use TAPPING in a sentence

• Gently tapping on the glass, he got the attention of the editor, the very man he wanted, and, in pantomime, gave him to understand that his presence was requested.
• Tapping his teeth with one thumb, he gazed at her, apparently in meditation upon her peculiar case.
• They were roused early in the morning by something tapping lightly on the doors and windows.
• Some time in the night he was awakened by a persistent tapping on the door.
• He swung round the trail, briskly tapping the wire, and singing in a voice that scarcely could have been surpassed for sweetness.
• The contented silence about the fire was presently broken by a tapping at the outer door, and Ken rose to admit the Maestro and Martin.
• He sat back, tapping the table with long, nervous fingers, and his eyes wandered from the table around the room.
• Jogglebury, who was still tapping away at the card, which he had now worked very soft.
• The present series involved only light tapping and was carried on at a much slower average rate.
• The expert, by tapping the tree with the blunt side of his ax, could tell that the tree was not solid.
• Presently the fretful tapping on the pane ceased, and he began to whistle the same tune very pleasantly.
• The sound of his stick tapping across the bricks roused Mrs.
• It was nearly midnight when there came a gentle tapping on her door.
• Graham did not answer, but sat tapping his desk with that deep line of perplexity between his eyebrows.
• The percussion treatment that I have suggested consists in alternate tapping or striking this region of the body with both hands.
• Old Tsybukin walked about near the tables, tapping with his heels and sharpening the knives against each other.
• Then he lifted one foot after another, and cleaned out about the frog, tapping the hoof all over for soreness.
• Then she descried her officer standing at an open carriage door in conversation with another officer and tapping his leggings with his cane.
• A mysterious personage, wrapped in a long black cloak, and wearing a mask, entered her dwelling without standing upon the ceremony of tapping at the door.
• When cold, the material may usually be detached in a lump by tapping the crucible or gently pressing it near its upper edge.
• Then he heard the tapping on his window again, and Mr.
• Before the tapping, it is necessary to calculate at a glance the function of the gate pit.
• By this mode of tapping, the wound in the tree is so small that it will be perfectly healed or grown over in two years.
• Miss Farrell was rarely at the office at night, but as Harwood opened the door, he found her busily tapping the keys of her machine.
• I have heard a tapping, like some one hammering gently on stone.
• Before she found it there came a tapping on the door, and Diana Vyell entered.
• There was a faint distinct tapping as though slender fingers were beating a ghastly, distant drum.

Similar words containing TAPP without suffix ing

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