What is "yap"

Yap \Yap\, v. i. [Icel. gj[=a]lpa; akin to yelp. Cf. Yaup.] To bark; to yelp.
--L'Estrange.

Yap \Yap\, n. A bark; a yelp.

1660s, "bark as a (small) dog," earlier as a noun, "yapping dog" (c.1600), probably of imitative origin. Compare verb yamph in same sense (1718). Originally in reference to dog sounds; meaning "to talk idle chatter" is first recorded 1886. Related: Yapped; yapping. As a noun, 1826 in reference to the sound; 1900, American English slang as "mouth."

n. 1 The high-pitched bark of a small dog. 2 An informal talk. 3 The mouth, which produces speech. 4 (context Geordie English) A badly behaved child, a brat. vb. 1 (cx intransitive English) Of a small dog, to bark. 2 (cx intransitive slang English) To talk, especially excessively.

1. n. informal terms for the mouth [syn: trap, cakehole, hole, maw, gob]

2. v. bark in a high-pitched tone; "the puppies yelped" [syn: yelp, yip]

3. [also: yapping, yapped]

YAP is an open source, high-performance implementation of the Prolog programming language developed at LIACC/ Universidade do Porto and at COPPE Sistemas/ UFRJ. Its Prolog engine is based in the WAM ( Warren Abstract Machine), with several optimizations for better performance. YAP follows the Edinburgh tradition, and is largely compatible with the ISO-Prolog standard and with Quintus Prolog and SICStus Prolog. YAP has been developed since 1985. The original version was written in assembly, C and Prolog, and achieved high performance on m68k-based machines.

Yap is an island in the Caroline Islands of the western Pacific Ocean, part of Yap State in the Federated States of Micronesia.

Yap may also refer to:

Yap or Wa′ab classically refers to an island—the Yap Main Islands—located in the Caroline Islands of the western Pacific Ocean, and a part of the Federated States of Micronesia. The name "Yap" in recent years has come to also refer to the state within the Federated States of Micronesia, inclusive of the Yap Main Islands and its various outer islands.

The Yap Main Islands is considered to be made up of four separate islands: Yap Island proper (Marbaq), Gagil-Tamil, Maap , and Rumung. The four are contiguous, though separated by water and are surrounded by a common coral reef. They are formed from an uplift of the Philippine Sea Plate, and are referred to as "high" islands as opposed to atolls. The land is mostly rolling hills, densely vegetated. Mangrove swamps line much of the shore, although there are beaches on the northern sides of the islands. Yap's indigenous cultures and traditions are strong compared to other states in Micronesia.

Colonia is the capital of the State of Yap which includes the Yap Main Islands and the Yap Neighboring Islands—the outer islands (mostly atolls) reaching to the east and south from the Yap Main Islands for some 800 km (500 mi), namely the atolls of Eauripik, Elato, Faraulep, Gaferut, Ifalik, Lamotrek, Ngulu, Olimarao, Piagailoe (West Fayu), Pikelot, Sorol, Ulithi, and Woleai, as well as the islands of Fais and Satawal (see map). Historically, a tributary system existed between the Neighboring Islands and the Yap Main Islands. This probably related to the need for goods from the high islands, including food, as well as wood for construction of seagoing vessels.

In 2000 the population was 11,241 in both Colonia and ten other municipalities. The state has a total land area of .

Yap Speech Cloud was a multimodal speech recognition system developed by American technology company Yap Inc. It offered a fully cloud-based speech-to-text transcription platform that was used by customers such as Microsoft.

The Company was a contestant at the inaugural TechCrunch conference and was subsequently acquired by Amazon in September 2011 to help develop products such as Alexa Voice Service, Echo, and Fire TV.