Antonyms for tap

Grammar : Noun, verb

Spell : tap

Phonetic Transcription : tæp

Definition of tap

Origin : "strike lightly," c.1200, from Old French taper "tap, rap, strike," from a Gallo-Romance or Germanic source ultimately imitative of the sound of rapping. Meaning "to designate for some duty or for membership" is recorded from 1952, from notion of a tap on the shoulder. Related: Tapped; tapping.

noun faucet
verb hit lightly
verb pierce to drain

Example sentences :

The boiler leaked at nearly every hole where a tap had been screwed into it.
Extract from : « Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884 » by Various

I got him to tap it gentler and gentler, and could hear the most feeble tap.
Extract from : « Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 » by Various

But either Epimetheus had not heard the tap, or was too much out of humor to notice it.
Extract from : « The Paradise of Children » by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Wahb could have hurled him across the Graybull with one tap now.
Extract from : « The Biography of a Grizzly » by Ernest Seton-Thompson

But he had not sat reading very long, when he heard a tap at his door.
Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens

At last, however, he felt a tap on the shoulder: "Monsieur l'Abbe!"
Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola

That evening there was a tap at the state-room door of Miss Jennie Brewster.
Extract from : « A Woman Intervenes » by Robert Barr

When they hear that tale at the tap of the Wheatsheaf, there will be some throats dry with laughter.
Extract from : « Micah Clarke » by Arthur Conan Doyle

Madden was just marking these men when there was a tap at the door.
Extract from : « The Cruise of the Dry Dock » by T. S. Stribling

He started at a tap on the door, and the past came back in a rush.
Extract from : « A Breath of Prairie and other stories » by Will Lillibridge

Synonyms for tap

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