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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.
verb (tapp, ing)
- To furnish with taps.
- 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.
- (context, mechanical) To cut an internal screw thread.
- Tap an M3 thread all the way through the hole.
- (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)
- (biology) The movement of an organism in response to a stimulus
- (medicine) The manipulation of a body part into its normal position after injury
- (plural of, taxi)
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noun
- (archaic) A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; called also tent wine, and tinta.
- (archaic) Attention; regard, care.
- (archaic) Intention; design.
- (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.
- (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.
- (archaic) The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
verb
- To go camping.
- We"ll be tented at the campground this weekend.
- (archaic) To attend to; to heed; hence, to guard; to hinder.
- (medicine) To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent; as, to tent a wound. Used also figuratively.
- (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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noun
- (slang) snack food. Derived from the expression "to tuck in food" meaning "to eat up", "to guzzle".
- A curled position.
verb
- 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.
- The diver tucked, flipped, and opened up at the last moment.
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noun (tympanoplasties)
- (context, surgery) reconstructive, Reconstructive surgery to the middle ear or eardrum.
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