Military tune indicating bedtime

Usage examples of taps.

He liked La Lune for leaving their patrons music-free and vibration-free, to bring in their private choices on their taps, or not.

Data, escaping the planet, not through replication, but simply through one of the taps physically writing things down.

And taps connected to First Movement tech, writing complex formulae by hand.

Faking identity was a near impossibility where the secure taps were concerned.

The very last thing any of them wanted now was Marak, already in a temper, conveying to the Ila, whose relations with Earth were ancient, unpleasant, and always full of acrimony, that Earth was now interfering with their taps, potentially including hers.

As if the taps were spreading formulae and processes for deadly nanoceles that were going to spread throughout humanity.

Council at Apex, which, yes, he now knew, and not too remarkably so, had kept alive its own store of the highly classified nanisms, the biological base of the down-world taps, that never should have left Concord, nanoceles that were supposed to be confined to the Project from the making of the Treaty onward.

That he had only now found it out, when a burst through the system had dropped their previously covert agent on his ass along with the rest of the taps, made him madder than hell.

taps reported in left and right by physical line, taps made ill and disoriented by a strike, this time on every channel.

Her blowing through here has put a significant number of taps on the sick list or in hospital.

Hand trembling over the buttons, once and twice hesitating, he called System Control, encoded an order with a furious set of taps, first to warn the techs and then to order them to bring the local system back up.

He ate, he slept, he answered questions that popped onto the screen, and sometimes he heard one or the other of two competing taps fussing at him, trying to gain his attention.

I had cars lined up for gasoline, daily power cuts, no water coming out of household taps, crowds of unemployed young men standing on corners, fifteen-year-old girls shot to death for politics.

Daon Ramon Barrens, a sunwheel priest blots fresh blood from a bronze pendulum, then straightens in triumph and taps a smeared finger on a map.

Probably, the banks temporarily reprogram any computer that taps in to perform the coding and recognition functions itself.