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noun
- A device used to dispense liquids.
We don't have bottled water, you'll have to get it from the .
- A device used to cut an internal screw thread. (External screw threads are cut with a die.)
We drilled a hole and then cut the threads with the proper to match the valve's thread.
- A connection made to an electrical or fluid conductor without breaking it.
The system was barely keeping pressure due to all of the ill advised taps along its length.
- To furnish with taps.
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on tap: To have something available; to open (a keg) with a .
We have draft beer on tap.
- To access a resource or object.
When he ran out of money, he decided to into his trust fund.
- To draw off liquid from a vessel
He tapped a new barrel of beer.
- To place a listening or recording device on a telephone or wired connection
They can't the phone without a warrant.
- To intercept a communication without authority.
He was known to Cable TV and satellite dishes.
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(context, mechanical) To cut an internal screw thread.
Tap an M3 thread all the way through the hole.
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(slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
I would tap that hot girl over there. or, more informally, I'd tap that
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noun
- The bituminous surface of a road.
- Area of an airport where planes park or maneuver.
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noun
- (Archaic) A mixture of tar and small stones used in road building, now normally abbreviated to tarmac.
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proper noun
- a new town in the borough of Telford and Wrekin and the ceremonial county of Shropshire, England.
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noun
- A large slab of stone laid on a tomb.
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| tunnel |
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noun
- An underground or underwater passage.
- A passage through or under some obstacle.
- A hole in the ground made by an animal, a burrow.
verb (tunnels, tunnelling or in American usage tunneling, tunnelled or in American usage tunneled)
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(transitive) To make a tunnel through or under something, to burrow.
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(intransitive) To make a tunnel.
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