taps
taps
- n (military) signal to turn the lights out
- n the sound made by a gentle blow
- n a gentle blow
- n a faucet for drawing water from a pipe or cask
- n a small metal plate that attaches to the toe or heel of a shoe (as in tap dancing)
- n a tool for cutting female (internal) screw threads
- n a plug for a bunghole in a cask
- n the act of tapping a telephone or telegraph line to get information
- n a light touch or stroke
- v cut a female screw thread with a tap
- v draw from or dip into to get something
- v strike lightly
- v draw from; make good use of
- v tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information
- v furnish with a tap or spout, so as to be able to draw liquid from it
- v make light, repeated taps on a surface
- v walk with a tapping sound
- v dance and make rhythmic clicking sounds by means of metal plates nailed to the sole of the dance shoes
- v draw (liquor) from a tap
- v pierce in order to draw a liquid from
- v make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently
- On a big grey Navy transport in Yokohama, a bugler sounded taps.
- On the second day of the new year taps were sounded this week for the 1938 college football season.
- He speaks monthly with evangelical leaders, hearing their concerns and briefing them on the status of legislation, while his staff regularly taps evangelical broadcasters and .