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Answer for the clue ""The Raven" sound effect ", 7 letters:
tapping

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Word definitions for tapping in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Tapping is a guitar playing technique , where a string is fretted and set into vibration as part of a single motion of being pushed onto the fretboard, as opposed to the standard technique being fretted with one hand and picked with the other. It is similar ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. cut a female screw thread with a tap draw from or dip into to get something; "tap one's memory"; "tap a source of money" strike lightly; "He tapped me on the shoulder" [syn: tip ] draw from; make good use of; "we must exploit the resources we are given ...

Usage examples of tapping.

Sometimes the removal of the watery accumulation by tapping becomes necessary, in order to afford relief and give time for remedies to act.

He sat there in the office, tapping at the computer as he wrung the cost analyses out of it, adding variables, removing the more unlikely ones, inserting market projections and probable effects on other affiliated firms of the company.

Through the ventilator grilles she could clearly hear the sounds of thumping and tapping and slithering of other-species ambulatory appendages overhead, and the indescribable babbie of growling, hissing, gobbling, and cheeping conversation that accompanied it.

Mistress Anan was death on anybody spitting on her floors, or tossing bones, or even tapping out a pipe.

This time he took command of the display, tapping on vectors and assigning threat levels.

To cover her confusion, she turned to watch the bouzouki play tapping her fingers on the table to the music.

She had hired Neville Green, the notorious pinko lawyer, to prepare a file accusing the Daily Post under some obscure point of law relating to telephone tapping.

Johnnie chastised, tapping his fingertip lightly on her pouty bottom lip.

Sound became sound and he heard the android secretary tapping the manual bead-recorder at the Louis Quinze desk.

Strangely, Liath found herself caught between an intense boredom at the prospect of having to endure much more of this sparring and at the same time a feeling of being wrung so tight that like Sanglant she could not sit restfully but kept tapping one foot on the carpet.

Raj leaned forward, grinning like a sauroid and tapping one fist into a palm.

But the writers rock back and forth on their office chairs, softly tapping the semicolon key and emitting low whimpers.

The ground was often soft, so in places the septon would walk ahead, tapping with his cjuarterstaff to make certain of the footing.

It is expansive and well fenced, her landscape, the quiet acres of her mind, and with a soundtrack: the tapping of the rain, the swipping of her poncho against the branches, the tinny jangle of the carabiners swinging from her backpack.

Luther got them out the door, nothing said, just the irritating sound of Treen tapping the tube against his leg, like a bored cop with a nightstick looking for a head to bash.