Crossword clues for tap
tap
- Dance style with fancy footwork
- Keg part
- Keg feature
- Dance genre
- Dance class
- Percussive dance
- Barroom fixture
- Dance often done with top hat and cane
- Bud source, perhaps
- Word that becomes its own synonym when spelled backward
- "Singin' in the Rain" dance style
- A tool for cutting female (internal) screw threads
- A plug for a bunghole in a cask
- A light touch or stroke
- The sound made by a gentle blow
- A faucet for drawing water from a pipe or cask
- A gentle blow
- Plug
- Open a keg
- Begin to use
- Light blow
- Choose for membership
- Do a buck and wing
- Dance like Hines
- Word with room or root
- Spy job
- Dance, in a way
- Half sole
- Gregory Hines medium
- Bug's relative
- Type of dance
- Break open
- Gregory Hines film
- This is sometimes near beer
- On ____ (from the barrel)
- Astaire specialty
- Ann Miller forte
- Kind of bolt or dance
- Type of root
- Kind of dancer
- Select for membership
- Knock gently
- Draw on
- Thread-forming tool
- "The ___ Dance Kid"
- Wire job
- Rhythmic dance
- Dancing sound
- Beer producer
- Percuss
- Broach a cask
- Choose a new club member
- Start of a court game
- Phone cut-in
- Bar item
- Dance of a sort
- Easy stroke
- On ___ (available)
- Broach
- Open, as a beer keg
- Start of an N.B.A. game
- Initiate a flow
- Open a barrel
- Hearing aid?
- Kind of dance
- Gregory Hines specialty
- Spigot
- Designate
- Access, with "into"
- Draw upon
- Do some soft-shoe
- Choose
- Open, as a keg
- Strike lightly
- Keep time
- Utilize
- Dance specialty
- It bugs people on the phone
- Select
- Draw from
- Water source
- Whence water
- Connect to secretly
- Light touch
- Faucet
- Cane's sound
- You may draw from it
- Item on a dancer's heel
- Pick
- Dancer's shoe attachment
- Draft outlet
- Bug
- Call on
- Use as a resource
- Beer may be on this
- Cask control
- Beer may be on it
- Something to draw from
- Send a message in Morse code, e.g.
- Make use of
- Listening-in device
- Draft dispenser
- Keg opening
- Need for a keg
- Punch out, as Morse code
- Water gate?
- Listening device
- Keg necessity
- Brewpub fixture
- Soft-shoe, e.g.
- Spy's device
- Access, as a resource
- Snooping aid
- Bill (Bojangles) Robinson's forte
- Beer source
- Touch on the shoulder, say
- Brew source
- Object of many a court order
- Minor hit
- Dance like the Hines Brothers
- Shoe add-on
- Shoe attachment
- Physical "Psst!"
- See 62-Across
- Drafts may be served on it
- Flow controller
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Faucet \Fau"cet\, n. [F. fausset, perh. fr. L. fauces throat.]
A fixture for drawing a liquid, as water, molasses, oil, etc., from a pipe, cask, or other vessel, in such quantities as may be desired; -- called also tap, and cock. It consists of a tubular spout, stopped with a movable plug, spigot, valve, or slide.
The enlarged end of a section of pipe which receives the spigot end of the next section.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"strike lightly," c.1200, from Old French taper "tap, rap, strike" (12c.), from a Gallo-Roman or Germanic source ultimately imitative of the sound of rapping. Meaning "to designate for some duty or for membership" is recorded from 1952, from notion of a tap on the shoulder. Related: Tapped; tapping.
"light blow or stroke," mid-14c., from tap (v.1). Tap dancer first recorded 1927, from tap (n.) in the sense of "metal plate over the heel of a shoe" (1680s).
"stopper, faucet through which liquid can be drawn," Old English tæppa "tap, spigot," from Proto-Germanic *tappon (cognates: Middle Dutch tappe, Dutch tap, Old High German zapfo, German Zapfe). Originally a tapering cylindrical peg for a cask, then a hollowed one to draw from it (compare sense evolution of spigot). Phrase on tap "ready for use, ready to be drawn and served" is recorded from late 15c. Tap-wrench, used in turning one, attested from 1815.
"to supply with a tap," late Old English tæppian, from source of tap (n.1); compare German zapfen "to tap." Meaning "to draw liquor with a tap" is from mid-15c. Extended sense "make use of" is first recorded 1570s. Meaning "listen in secretly" (1869), originally was with reference to telegraph wires. Tapped out "broke" is 1940s slang, perhaps from the notion of having tapped all one's acquaintances for loans already (compare British slang on the tap "begging, making requests for loans," 1932).
"device to listen in secretly on telephone calls," 1923, from tap (v.2) in the "listen secretly" sense.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 A tapering cylindrical pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask; a spigot. 2 A device used to dispense liquids. 3 Liquor drawn through a tap; hence, a certain kind or quality of liquor. 4 A place where liquor is drawn for drinking; a taproom; a bar. 5 (context mechanics English) A device used to cut an internal screw thread. (External screw threads are cut with a die.) 6 A connection made to an electrical or fluid conductor without breaking it. 7 An interception of communication by authority. vb. 1 To furnish with taps. 2 To draw off liquid from a vessel. 3 deplete, especially of a liquid via a tap; tap out 4 To place a listening or recording device on a telephone or wired connection. (from 19th c.) 5 To intercept a communication without authority. 6 (context mechanical English) To cut an internal screw thread. 7 (context gaming English) To turn or flip a card or playing piece to remind players that it has already been used that turn. Etymology 2
n. 1 A gentle or slight blow; a light rap; a pat. 2 (context computing English) The act of touching a touch screen. 3 A piece of leather fastened upon the bottom of a boot or shoe in repairing or renewing the sole or heel; a heeltap. 4 (context military English) 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. vb. 1 To strike lightly. (from early 13th c.) 2 To touch one's finger, foot, or other body parts on a surface (usually) repeatedly. 3 To make a sharp noise. 4 To designate for some duty or for membership, as in 'a tap on the shoulder'. (from mid-20th c.) 5 (context slang transitive English) To have sexual intercourse with. 6 (context combat sports English) To submit to an opponent by tapping one's hand repeatedly. 7 (context combat sports transitive English) To force (an opponent) to submit. 8 To put a new sole or heel on.
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 wisely" [syn: exploit]
tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information; "The FBI was tapping the phone line of the suspected spy"; "Is this hotel room bugged?" [syn: wiretap, intercept, bug]
furnish with a tap or spout, so as to be able to draw liquid from it; "tap a cask of wine"
make light, repeated taps on a surface; "he was tapping his fingers on the table impatiently" [syn: rap, knock, pink]
walk with a tapping sound
dance and make rhythmic clicking sounds by means of metal plates nailed to the sole of the dance shoes; "Glover tapdances better than anybody" [syn: tapdance]
draw (liquor) from a tap; "tap beer in a bar"
pierce in order to draw a liquid from; "tap a maple tree for its syrup"; "tap a keg of beer"
make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently; "Henry IV solicited the Pope for a divorce"; "My neighbor keeps soliciting money for different charities" [syn: solicit, beg]
a faucet for drawing water from a pipe or cask [syn: water faucet, water tap, spigot, hydrant]
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 [syn: spigot]
the act of tapping a telephone or telegraph line to get information [syn: wiretap]
Wikipedia
Táp is a village in Győr-Moson-Sopron county, Hungary.
In 1588 it was undivided property of Count János Cseszneky and András Farkas, later was in the hands of Cseszneky heirs.
A tap is a connection point along a transformer winding that allows a certain number of turns to be selected. This means, a transformer with a variable turns ratio is produced, enabling voltage regulation of the output. The tap selection is made with a tap changer mechanism.
Tap is a 1989 dance drama film written and directed by Nick Castle. It stars Gregory Hines and Sammy Davis, Jr.
"TAP" is a 1995 novelette by Greg Egan. It is set in a near-future society in which brain implants allow immersive virtual reality. The implants also allow a new kind of language called TAP, Total Affective Protocol. TAP is essentially a way of making qualia into words.
TAP words can be read like English, or invoked to be experienced, like virtual reality.
Táp is a village in Győr-Moson-Sopron county, Hungary.
In 1588 it was undivided property of Count János Cseszneky and András Farkas, later was in the hands of Cseszneky heirs.
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.