TAP

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A conical peg or pin used to close and open the hole or vent in a container.
2. isim An object with a tapering conical form like a tap (etymology 1, noun sense 1); specifically, ellipsis of taproot (“long, tapering root of a plant”).
3. isim 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.

   “We don’t have bottled water; you’ll have to get it from the tap.”

4. isim A procedure that removes fluid from a body cavity; paracentesis.

   “abdominal tap    pleural tap    spinal tap”

5. isim Liquor drawn through a tap (etymology 1, noun sense 2.2); hence, a certain kind or quality of liquor; also (figurative, informal), a certain kind or quality of any thing.

   “a liquor of the same tap”

6. isim A device used to listen in secretly on telephone calls or other communications.
7. isim A secret interception of telephone calls or other communications using such a device; also, a recording of such a communication.

   “telephone tap”

8. isim 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.

   “bond tap    tap issue”

9. isim 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.

   “We drilled a hole and then cut the threads with the proper tap to match the valve’s thread.”

10. isim Ellipsis of taphouse or taproom (“place where alcoholic beverages are served on tap”).

    “[H]ere has been nothing but canting and praying ſince the fellovv entered the place.—Rabbit him! the tap vvill be ruined—vve han't ſold a caſk of beer, nor a dozen of vvine, ſince he paid his garniſh—the gentlemen get drunk vvith nothing but your damned religion.— […]”

11. isim A connection made to an electrical or fluid conductor without breaking it; a tapping.

    “The system was barely keeping pressure due to all of the ill-advised taps along its length.”

12. fiil To furnish (a container, etc.) with a tap (noun etymology 1, noun sense 2.2) so that liquid can be drawn.

    “There's a very pretty brew in tap at The Pure Drop—though, to be sure, not so good as at Rolliver's.”

13. fiil To draw off (a liquid) from a container or other source; also, to draw off a liquid from (a container or other source).

    “He tapped the ten-year-old whiskey from its barrel.”

14. fiil To drain off fluid from (a person or a body cavity) by paracentesis.

    “[…] I have, ever since my cure, been very thirsty and dropsical; therefore, I presume, it would be much better to tap me, and drink me off, than eat me at once, and have no man in the ship fit to be drunk.”

15. fiil To break into or open up (a thing) so as to obtain something; to exploit, to penetrate; tap into.

    “Businesses are trying to tap the youth market.”

16. fiil To deplete (something); to tap out.
17. fiil 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.

    “I tried to tap a cigarette off him, but he wouldn’t give me one.”

18. fiil 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).

    “They can’t tap the phone without a warrant.”

19. fiil To turn over (a playing card or playing piece) to remind players that it has already been used in that round.
20. fiil 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.

    “I think there's an expression in poker. I'll tap you, Mr. Maverick.”

21. fiil To remove a taproot from (a plant).
22. fiil 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).

    “Tap an M3 thread all the way through the hole.”

23. fiil To cut an external screw thread into (a bolt or rod) to create a screw.
24. fiil To put (a screw or other object) in or through another thing.
25. fiil To act as a tapster; to draw an alcoholic beverage from a container.

    “Ile entertaine Bardolfe. He ſhall tap, he ſhall dravv.”

26. fiil To spend money, etc., freely.

    “A certain country gentleman began to tap upon the first information he received of sir Roger's death: when he sent me up word that, if I would get him chosen in the place of the deceased, he would present me with a barrel of the best October I had ever drank in my life.”

27. fiil To strike (someone or something), chiefly lightly with a clear sound, but sometimes hard.

    “She tapped him on the shoulder to get his attention.”

28. fiil Also in the form tap on the shoulder: to arrest (someone).

    “We are certainly scented here, and I walk about like a barrel of beer at Christmas, under hourly apprehension of being tapped!”

29. fiil To have sexual intercourse with (someone).

    “I would tap that hot girl over there.”

30. fiil To shoot (someone or something) with a firearm.

    “Heard that, too, Rose said. A thirtyeight revolver. Only you tapped him with a rifle from a hundred yards out.”