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Synonyms for tappings

Grammar : Noun
Spell : tap-ing
Phonetic Transcription : ˈtæp ɪŋ

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Définition of tappings

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.
  • As in tick : noun clicking sound; one beat
  • As in mining : noun excavating
  • As in tattoo : noun continuous drumming
Example sentences :
  • So long as their tappings resounded ahead of me I feared no ambush.
  • Extract from : « A Virginia Scout » by Hugh Pendexter
  • Was ever old housekeeper so pestered by nightly tappings at her window-pane?
  • Extract from : « Checkmate » by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
  • Continually these tappings were interrupted by the snarling of the guard.
  • Extract from : « The Jacket (The Star-Rover) » by Jack London
  • “Tile” copper is an impure copper, and is obtained by refining the first tappings.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 » by Various
  • The recorder gave out the tappings the underwater microphone had picked up.
  • Extract from : « Creatures of the Abyss » by Murray Leinster
  • It seemed to Terry that the loudspeaker struggled to emit the shrillest imaginable sounds in strict synchrony with the tappings.
  • Extract from : « Creatures of the Abyss » by Murray Leinster
  • I saw the dropsy gaining rather than losing ground; the distance growing still shorter between the tappings.
  • Extract from : « The Works of Henry Fielding; vol. xi » by Henry Fielding
  • Instead of angels, whose countenance is as the lightning, they will have ghosts and tippings and tappings and rappings.
  • Extract from : « The Salem witchcraft, The planchette mystery, and Modern spiritualism » by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • The audience accompanied with tappings and drummings, swaying in the melody like corn in the wind.
  • Extract from : « Where Angels Fear to Tread » by E. M. Forster
  • Tappings and clankings and strange rhythmic creakings awoke as the intrepid hirer pedalled out into the country.
  • Extract from : « The War in the Air » by Herbert George Wells
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