Usually means: Device for controlling fluid flow.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. tap: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. tap, tap: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tap, tap: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tap: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tap: Vocabulary.com
  6. Tap, tap: Wordnik
  7. tap: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. tap: Wiktionary
  9. tap: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. tap: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. tap: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. TAP: Dictionary.com
  13. tap (n.), tap (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. tap: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. TAP (magazine), TAP, Tap (disambiguation), Tap (film), Tap (gaming), Tap (signal processing), Tap (song), Tap (transformer), Tap (valve), Tap, Tap: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Tap: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. tap: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. tap: Rhymezone
  19. tap: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. tap: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Tap: Britih-American Dictionary
  22. TAP: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. tap: Free Dictionary
  24. tap: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. tap: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. tap: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Tap: Lexicon of Linguistics
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Broadcast Media Terms (No longer online)
  2. tap: Legal dictionary
  3. Tap (demon): Financial dictionary
  4. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)
  5. TAP: Radio Programming and Production

Computing (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. tap: Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary
  2. TAP, tap: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  3. TAP: Netlingo
  4. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  5. Technopedia (No longer online)
  6. Tap (dance), Tap (transformer), Tap (valve), The tap, tap: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. The tap, tap: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ka-BOOM! Comicbook Words on Historical Principles (No longer online)
  2. TAP: Acronym Finder
  3. TAP: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. tap: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. TAP: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. TAP (offensive), TAP (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. Tap: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  4. T.A.P, T.A.P, The tap: Urban Dictionary

Sports (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Tap: Fifthchair Bridge
  2. Tap: Gambling Glossary
  3. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  4. Tap: Bicycle Glossary
  5. Tap: Sports Definitions

Tech (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. tap: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. tap: Electronics
  3. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  4. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Fastener Terms (No longer online)
  6. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A conical peg or pin used to close and open the hole or vent in a container.
noun:  (by extension)
noun:  An object with a tapering conical form like a tap (sense 1); specifically, short for taproot (“long, tapering root of a plant”).
noun:  A hollow device used to control the flow of a fluid, such as an alcoholic beverage from a cask, or a gas or liquid in a pipe.
noun:  (medicine, informal) A procedure that removes fluid from a body cavity; paracentesis.
noun:  Liquor drawn through a tap (sense 2.2); hence, a certain kind or quality of liquor; also (figurative, informal), a certain kind or quality of any thing.
noun:  (communication, chiefly law enforcement)
noun:  A device used to listen in secretly on telephone calls or other communications.
noun:  A secret interception of telephone calls or other communications using such a device; also, a recording of such a communication.
noun:  (finance) A situation where a borrowing government authority issues bonds over a period of time, usually at a fixed price, with volumes sold on a particular day dependent on market conditions.
noun:  (mechanics) A cylindrical tool used to cut an internal screw thread in a hole, with cutting edges around the lower end and an upper end to which a handle is fitted to turn the tool.
noun:  (British, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering) A connection made to an electrical or fluid conductor without breaking it; a tapping.
verb:  (transitive)
verb:  To furnish (a container, etc.) with a tap (noun sense 2.2) so that liquid can be drawn.
verb:  To draw off (a liquid) from a container or other source; also, to draw off a liquid from (a container or other source).
verb:  (medicine, informal) To drain off fluid from (a person or a body cavity) by paracentesis.
verb:  (figurative)
verb:  To break into or open up (a thing) so as to obtain something; to exploit, to penetrate.
verb:  To deplete (something); to tap out.
verb:  (informal) To ask or beg for (something) to be given for free; to cadge, to scrounge; also, to ask or beg (someone) to give something for free.
verb:  (communication, chiefly law enforcement) To connect a listening and/or recording device to (a communication cable or device) in order to listen in secretly on telephone calls or other communications; also, to secretly listen in on and/or record (a telephone call or other communication).
verb:  (board games, card games) To turn over (a playing card or playing piece) to remind players that it has already been used in that round.
verb:  (poker) To force (an opponent) to place all their poker chips in the pot (that is, to go all in) by wagering all of one's own chips.
verb:  (horticulture) To remove a taproot from (a plant).
verb:  (mechanics)
verb:  To cut an internal screw thread in (a hole); also, to cut (an internal screw thread) in a hole, or to create an internally threaded hole in (something).
verb:  To cut an external screw thread into (a bolt or rod) to create a screw.
verb:  To put (a screw or other object) in or through another thing.
verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  To act as a tapster; to draw an alcoholic beverage from a container.
verb:  (obsolete) To spend money, etc., freely.
verb:  (transitive)
verb:  To strike (someone or something), chiefly lightly with a clear sound, but sometimes hard.
verb:  (slang) Also in the form tap on the shoulder: to arrest (someone).
verb:  (slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse with (someone).
verb:  (slang) To shoot (someone or something) with a firearm.
verb:  To (lightly) touch (a finger, foot, or other body part) on a surface, often repeatedly.
verb:  (transitive) To lightly touch a touchscreen, usually an icon or button, to activate a function.
verb:  (transitive) To lightly and repeatedly touch (a person or one or more body parts) as part of various forms of psychological treatment.
verb:  (combat sports) To force (an opponent) to submit, chiefly by indicating their intention to do so by striking a hand on the ground several times; to tap out.
verb:  (graphical user interface) To invoke a function on an electronic device such as a mobile phone by touching (a button, icon, or specific location on its touch screen).
verb:  (British, dialectal or US) To repair (an item of footwear) by putting on a new heel or sole, or a piece of material on to the heel or sole.
verb:  (chiefly US, informal) To choose or designate (someone) for a duty, an honour, membership of an organization, or a position.
verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  Often followed by at or on: to strike lightly with a clear sound; also, to make a sharp noise through this action.
verb:  To walk by striking the ground lightly with a clear sound.
verb:  Of a bell, a drum, etc.: to make a sharp noise, often as a signal.
verb:  (combat sports) To submit to an opponent, chiefly by indicating an intention to do so by striking a hand on the ground several times; to tap out.
verb:  (obsolete) Of a hare or rabbit: to strike the ground repeatedly with its feet during the rutting season.
noun:  (countable)
noun:  A light blow or strike with a clear sound; a gentle rap; a pat; also, the sound made by such a blow or strike.
noun:  (informal, minimizer, chiefly in the negative) The smallest amount of work; a stroke of work.
noun:  (dance) One of the metal pieces attached to the sole of a tap dancer's shoe at the toe and heel to cause a tapping sound.
noun:  (firearms, slang) A shot fired from a firearm.
noun:  (graphical user interface) An act of touching a button, icon, or specific location on the touch screen of an electronic device such as a mobile phone to invoke a function.
noun:  (phonetics) A single muscle contraction in vocal organs causing a consonant sound; also, the sound so made.
noun:  (British, dialectal or US) A piece of leather or other material fastened upon the bottom of an item of footwear when repairing the heel or sole; also (England, dialectal) the sole of an item of footwear.
noun:  (India, chiefly East India) A malarial fever.
noun:  (rail transport) The station code of Tai Po Market in Hong Kong.
noun:  (British) Short for taphouse or taproom (“place where alcoholic beverages are served on tap”).
noun:  (uncountable, dance) Ellipsis of tap dance. [A rhythmic dance in which the heels and toes of the dancer's shoes make a series of clicks.]
noun:  Initialism of talk aloud protocol. [Synonym of think aloud protocol]
noun:  Initialism of think aloud protocol. [A data-gathering method used in a variety of research areas in people are asked to verbalise their thought processes as they do a specific task, and this is recorded for further analysis.]
noun:  (advertising) Initialism of total audience package: an offering that includes ads broadcast during every part of the schedule.
noun:  (software) Initialism of The Ada Project.

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