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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The act of one that taps.
  • noun The process or means by which something is tapped.
  • noun Something that is taken or drawn by tapping.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • The act or process of boring a hole in a pipe, cask, or any similar object for the insertion of a spigot or faucet.
  • In surgery, paracentesis, or the operation of giving vent to fluid which has collected in some space, as that of the pleura or peritoneum.
  • noun The act of giving taps or slight and gentle blows; also, a series of taps.
  • noun In foundry work, the operation of jarring or shaking the pattern in the loam by striking it gently to release it without disturbing the loam.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An act of making a light hit or strike against something.
  • noun music A guitar technique in which the strings are tapped against the fingerboard
  • verb Present participle of tap.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the sound of light blow or knock

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