Tap

[tæp]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a light touch or stroke.

(noun.) a plug for a bunghole in a cask.

(noun.) a tool for cutting female (internal) screw threads.

(noun.) a small metal plate that attaches to the toe or heel of a shoe (as in tap dancing).

(verb.) strike lightly; 'He tapped me on the shoulder'.

(verb.) cut a female screw thread with a tap.

(verb.) pierce in order to draw a liquid from; 'tap a maple tree for its syrup'; 'tap a keg of beer'.

(verb.) draw (liquor) from a tap; 'tap beer in a bar'.

(verb.) walk with a tapping sound.

(verb.) make light, repeated taps on a surface; 'he was tapping his fingers on the table impatiently'.

(verb.) draw from or dip into to get something; 'tap one's memory'; 'tap a source of money'.

(verb.) furnish with a tap or spout, so as to be able to draw liquid from it; 'tap a cask of wine'.

卡洛整理--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) To put a new sole or heel on; as, to tap shoes.

(n.) A gentle or slight blow; a light rap; a pat.

(n.) A piece of leather fastened upon the bottom of a boot or shoe in repairing or renewing the sole or heel.

(n.) A signal, by drum or trumpet, for extinguishing all lights in soldiers' quarters and retiring to bed, -- usually given about a quarter of an hour after tattoo.

(v. i.) To strike a gentle blow.

(n.) A hole or pipe through which liquor is drawn.

(n.) A plug or spile for stopping a hole pierced in a cask, or the like; a faucet.

(n.) Liquor drawn through a tap; hence, a certain kind or quality of liquor; as, a liquor of the same tap.

(n.) A place where liquor is drawn for drinking; a taproom; a bar.

(n.) A tool for forming an internal screw, as in a nut, consisting of a hardened steel male screw grooved longitudinally so as to have cutting edges.

(v. t.) To pierce so as to let out, or draw off, a fluid; as, to tap a cask, a tree, a tumor, etc.

(v. t.) Hence, to draw from (anything) in any analogous way; as, to tap telegraph wires for the purpose of intercepting information; to tap the treasury.

(v. t.) To draw, or cause to flow, by piercing.

(v. t.) To form an internal screw in (anything) by means of a tool called a tap; as, to tap a nut.

校對:奥利弗

同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. [1]. Broach.[2]. Rap, strike (lightly).

v. n. Rap.

n. [1]. Gentle blow, light stroke.[2]. Spigot, plug, stopper, stopple.

校對:罗伯特

解釋/意思:

n. a gentle blow or touch esp. with something small: a signal with a drum to put lights out.—v.t. to strike lightly touch gently.—v.i. to give a gentle knock:—pr.p. tap′ping; pa.t. and pa.p. tapped.

n. a hole or short pipe through which liquor is drawn: a place where liquor is drawn: any particular liquor drawn through a tap.—v.t. to pierce so as to let out fluid: to open a cask and draw off liquor: to broach a vessel.—v.i. to act as a tapster:—pr.p. tap′ping; pa.t. and pa.p. tapped.—ns. Tap′-bolt a bolt with a head on one end and a thread on the other to be screwed into some fixed part instead of passing through and receiving a nut; Tap′-cin′der slag produced during puddling; Tap′-house a tavern; Tap′lash poor stale swipes; Tapote′ment percussion; Tap′per one who taps; Tap′ping an operation frequently resorted to for the removal of fluid accumulations particularly in the pleural and peritoneal cavities consisting in the introduction of one end of a small tube into the cavity and withdrawing the fluid by siphon action or by means of a vacuum: the act or art of tapping or drawing out fluid; Tap′room a room where beer is served from the tap or cask; Tap′root a root of a plant or tree striking directly downward without dividing and tapering towards the end as that of the carrot; Tap′ster one who taps or draws off liquor a publican barman.—On tap kept in cask—opp. to bottled: ready to be drawn upon.

n. a Scotch form of top.

n. an Indian malarial fever.

整理:莎丽