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English

1. 🔊 a light touch or stroke
2. 🔊 a plug for a bunghole in a cask
3. 🔊 a tool for cutting female (internal) screw threads
4. 🔊 a small metal plate that attaches to the toe or heel of a shoe (as in tap dancing)
5. 🔊 the act of tapping a telephone or telegraph line to get information
6. 🔊 a faucet for drawing water from a pipe or cask
7. 🔊 the sound made by a gentle blow
8. 🔊 a gentle blow
9. 🔊 strike lightly
   “He tapped me on the shoulder”
10. 🔊 cut a female screw thread with a tap
11. 🔊 pierce in order to draw a liquid from
    “tap a maple tree for its syrup”
12. 🔊 draw (liquor) from a tap
    “tap beer in a bar”
13. 🔊 walk with a tapping sound
14. 🔊 make light, repeated taps on a surface
    “he was tapping his fingers on the table impatiently”
15. 🔊 draw from or dip into to get something
    “tap one's memory”
16. 🔊 furnish with a tap or spout, so as to be able to draw liquid from it
    “tap a cask of wine”
17. 🔊 draw from
    “we must exploit the resources we are given wisely”
18. 🔊 dance and make rhythmic clicking sounds by means of metal plates nailed to the sole of the dance shoes
    “Glover tapdances better than anybody”
19. 🔊 tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information
    “The FBI was tapping the phone line of the suspected spy”
20. 🔊 make a solicitation or entreaty for something
    “Henry IV solicited the Pope for a divorce”

Spanish

1. 🔊 percutir to tap
2. 🔊 tap tap, tap dancing
3. 🔊 grifo tap, faucet (device used to dispense liquids)

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