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- 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 (taxes)
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(biology) The movement of an organism in response to a stimulus
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(medicine) The manipulation of a body part into its normal position after injury
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(plural of, taxi)
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(archaic) A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; called also tent wine, and tinta.
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(archaic) Attention; regard, care.
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(archaic) Intention; design.
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(medicine) A roll of lint or linen, or a conical or cylindrical piece of sponge or other absorbent, used chiefly to dilate a natural canal, to keep open the orifice of a wound, or to absorb discharges.
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(medicine) A probe for searching a wound.
- A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, used for sheltering persons from the weather.
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(archaic) The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
verb
- To go camping.
We"ll be tented at the campground this weekend.
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(archaic) To attend to; to heed; hence, to guard; to hinder.
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(medicine) To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent; as, to tent a wound. Used also figuratively.
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(cooking) To prop up aluminum foil in an inverted "V" (reminicent of a pop-up tent) over food to reduce splatter, before putting it in the oven.
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(slang) snack food. Derived from the expression "to tuck in food" meaning "to eat up", "to guzzle".
- A curled position.
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to push in one material under another - as in "tuck in your shirt" or "I tucked in my shirt" etc
- to eat food
- to curl into a ball; to fold up and hold one's legs.
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The diver tucked, flipped, and opened up at the last moment.
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noun (tympanoplasties)
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(context, surgery) reconstructive, Reconstructive surgery to the middle ear or eardrum.
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