Tap is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TAP in dictionary:

VERB:
• to strike gently
• 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
• knock lightly and usu repeatedly
• 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.
• To put a new sole or heel on; as, to tap shoes.
• To strike a gentle blow.
• To pierce so as to let out, or draw off, a fluid; as, to tap a cask, a tree, a tumor, etc.
• Hence, to draw from (anything) in any analogous way; as, to tap telegraph wires for the purpose of intercepting information; to tap the treasury.
• To draw, or cause to flow, by piercing.
• To form an internal screw in (anything) by means of a tool called a tap; as, to tap a nut.
• cut a female screw thread with a tap
• draw from or dip into to get something
• strike lightly
• draw from; make good use of
• tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information
• furnish with a tap or spout, so as to be able to draw liquid from it
• make light, repeated taps on a surface
• walk with a tapping sound
• dance and make rhythmic clicking sounds by means of metal plates nailed to the sole of the dance shoes
• draw (liquor) from a tap
• pierce in order to draw a liquid from
• make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently
NOUN:
• 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.
• A gentle or slight blow; a light rap; a pat.
• A piece of leather fastened upon the bottom of a boot or shoe in repairing or renewing the sole or heel.
• 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.
• A hole or pipe through which liquor is drawn.
• A plug or spile for stopping a hole pierced in a cask, or the like; a faucet.
• Liquor drawn through a tap; hence, a certain kind or quality of liquor; as, a liquor of the same tap.
• A place where liquor is drawn for drinking; a taproom; a bar.
• 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.
• the sound made by a gentle blow
• a faucet for drawing water from a pipe or cask
• a small metal plate that attaches to the toe or heel of a shoe (as in tap dancing)
• a tool for cutting female (internal) screw threads
• a plug for a bunghole in a cask
• the act of tapping a telephone or telegraph line to get information
• a light touch or stroke
• light 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.

Words related to TAP

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Words that contain TAP

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How to use TAP in a sentence

• A pipe should be pushed through the hole and a tap attached to the outer end.
• When the receiving station showed its light in answer, the tap was opened at the bottom of the tube in each station.
• Phrack, TAP, Computer Underground Digest, all that stuff.
• When Ponta made his savage rushes, Joe carefully covered up, only to emerge, his left foot going tap, tap, tap, as he immediately followed up.
• One night, some three months after she had come to live at the kindergarten, Trina was awakened by a sharp tap on the pane of the window.
• A pipe from the roof was connected with the tap, so that water could be drawn from the tank as usual.
• One motion of her hand, one tap on the pane, and she could picture the sudden change in his face.
• Above is an open tap through which the water pours constantly, and of course the trough keeps on running over.
• If a woman leaves a high-pressure tap running, she will flood her place and her neighbour’s too.
• The newly-formed milk should be placed into a bottle having a tap in it about a quarter of an inch from the bottom.
• There were other bowls, of crystal pure as full-blown bubbles, bowls which would ring at a tap like clear bells of silver.
• But Stephen had not been in his room ten minutes when there came a gentle tap at his door.
• The orchestra played a swinging air, to which his foot kept tap, and presently the curtain went up and the show was on with a rush of girls and colour.
• Ross sat down in one of the uncomfortable seats to think and thus avoided immediate disaster, for he was hidden from the stairs on which sounded the tap of boots.
• Smith has painted nothing more masterly than his picture of a girl turning a hot-water tap.
• James Coke, Sea View, Ocean Road, Birkenhead, when a gentle tap brought her to the door.
• I wished to tap and communicate with my comrades, but was afraid those two would hear.
• Then again, it is a question as to whether the important tap roots of the important nut species should be disturbed or destroyed in transplanting.
• Through carelessness Michel had left the tap full on.
• He would have us all tap the same source from which he drew his inspiration.
• Half way through the round Dick received a sharp tap on his nose that brought the red.
• Right on top of the tap Midshipman Farley, fourth class, entered on tiptoe, closing the door behind him.
• Just from habit, and with my right foot already hanging down for the next step, I reached out to give the door one more tap for luck.
• There came a brisk tap at my door, and a man entered.
• You must turn the tap over it and wash it as clean as clean.
• We have the river trade, and two railroads tap our rich territory to fetch and carry what we take and give.
• Tap, tap, tap, tap, as if he were beating time to music.

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