Crossword clues for tapping
tapping
- Request urgently
- Strike lightly
- Draw from or dip into to get something
- Cut a female screw thread with a tap
- The sound of light blow or knock
- Tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information
- Secretly listening to Prince during recording
- Knocking softly
- Emulating a happy foot
- "The Raven" sound effect
- Haunted house sound
- Draw from
- Make a solicitation or entreaty for something
- Pierce in order to draw a liquid from
- Draw (liquor) from a tap
- Dance and make rhythmic clicking sounds by means of metal plates nailed to the sole of the dance shoes
- Make light, repeated taps on a surface
- Furnish with a tap or spout, so as to be able to draw liquid from it
- Make good use of (resources)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tap \Tap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tapped; p. pr. & vb. n. Tapping.] [F. taper to strike; of Teutonic origin; cf. dial. G. tapp, tapps, a blow, tappe a paw, fist, G. tappen to grope.]
To strike with a slight or gentle blow; to touch gently; to rap lightly; to pat; as, to tap one with the hand or a cane.
To put a new sole or heel on; as, to tap shoes.
Wiktionary
n. An act of making a light hit or strike against something. vb. (present participle of tap English)
WordNet
n. the sound of light blow or knock; "he heard the tapping of the man's cane"
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]
See tap
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 to the technique of hammer-ons and pull-offs, but used in an extended way compared to them: hammer-ons would be performed by only the fretting hand, and in conjunction with conventionally picked notes; whereas tapping passages involve both hands and consist of only tapped, hammered and pulled notes. Some players (such as Stanley Jordan) use exclusively tapping, and it is standard on some instruments, such as the Chapman Stick.
Tapping is a guitar-playing technique.
Tapping may also refer to:
- Tapping of sap or resin from a tree, as in rubber tapping
- Telephone (wire)tapping
- Tapping or flapping, a change in the pronunciation of /t/ or /d/ in some types of English
- Tapping, Western Australia, a suburb of Perth
- Amanda Tapping, English-born Canadian actress
- Tapping Therapy, also known as an Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)
- Making threads in a hole, as in a nut, using taps
- Tapping of a blast furnace: opening the furnace at regular intervals
- Rapid touching of a point on a touchscreen
- Use of artificial lag to cheat in online games
- Tapping/untapping, terms in the game Magic: The Gathering
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.