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Usage examples of tap.

Working quickly, he attached the much smaller, but much more efficient crystal-lattice trap and accelerometer to a port upstream from the main detector, where the substation tapped into the Tevatron flow.

Her childhood and adolescence had been full enough of taps on the phone, cars across the street, name-calling and fights in school.

Finished with cycling the air-lock combination, Councillor Albedo tapped at the invisible key in his palm once again.

Sliding his arm into each of the three spaces, Alec pressed and tapped with no success.

I knew it was Bakor and that they had tapped the open time channel just before I was to reach Algor terminal.

She tapped her toe impatiently, wondering why Duncan persisted in talking about old and withered Eglantine when she, ripe and lovely Alienor, was directly before him.

Moshe Dayan, Amit was tapped to run the Mossad in 1963 while studying business administration at Columbia University in New York City.

Billy Anker tapped the fingers of his good hand on the arm of his acceleration chair.

Our people can use commercial software to do stand alone jobs or pull down the apps from our servers, or they can tap into our database, or into the huge databases on the Internet to pull in reference data.

Tapping the coordinates to Argon into the computer, he slumped in relief.

Inside the room, the Marshal-General sat with another man, the luap, and when Aris tapped at the doorpost, they both looked up to stare at him.

She could not detect a ground for such suspicion in the Ashake memories she could tap.

Presently I heard a discreet tapping on the doorboard of the hut which I at once removed, wriggling swiftly through the hole, careless in my misery as to whether I met an assegai the other side of it or not.

Pham tapped his palm, and the audio from the scene below came louder in his ear.

Listeners could picture the years wherein Chardon and Dokey had worked underground from the old shack to tap the real vein of the Aureole Mine.