Synonym: faucet, pat, rap, spigot, valve. Similar words: tape, metaphor, set apart. Meaning: [tæp] 
n. 1. the sound made by a gentle blow 2. a faucet for drawing water from a pipe or cask 3. a gentle blow 4. a small metal plate that attaches to the toe or heel of a shoe (as in tap dancing) 5. a tool for cutting female (internal) screw threads 6. a plug for a bunghole in a cask 7. the act of tapping a telephone or telegraph line to get information 8. a light touch or stroke. v. 1. cut a female screw thread with a tap 2. draw from or dip into to get something 3. strike lightly 4. draw from; make good use of 5. tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information 6. furnish with a tap or spout, so as to be able to draw liquid from it 7. make light, repeated taps on a surface 8. walk with a tapping sound 9. dance and make rhythmic clicking sounds by means of metal plates nailed to the sole of the dance shoes 10. draw (liquor) from a tap 11. pierce in order to draw a liquid from 12. make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently.
n. 1. the sound made by a gentle blow 2. a faucet for drawing water from a pipe or cask 3. a gentle blow 4. a small metal plate that attaches to the toe or heel of a shoe (as in tap dancing) 5. a tool for cutting female (internal) screw threads 6. a plug for a bunghole in a cask 7. the act of tapping a telephone or telegraph line to get information 8. a light touch or stroke. v. 1. cut a female screw thread with a tap 2. draw from or dip into to get something 3. strike lightly 4. draw from; make good use of 5. tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information 6. furnish with a tap or spout, so as to be able to draw liquid from it 7. make light, repeated taps on a surface 8. walk with a tapping sound 9. dance and make rhythmic clicking sounds by means of metal plates nailed to the sole of the dance shoes 10. draw (liquor) from a tap 11. pierce in order to draw a liquid from 12. make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently. 
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151. After giving massage, hold your hands under a running tap.
152. I let two more minutes pass then tap Des on the shoulder.
153. But there is a third hand on tap helping to protect their dream - that brilliant puppeteer Ray Harford.
154. Flexible copper pipes are supplied with plain ends, with solder ring fittings or with tap connectors.
155. If we can tap it successfully - our future is in safe hands.
156. If you tap something made of good glass, it should keep ringing for quite a long time.
157. But as she washed her breakfast cup and saucer and rinsed them meticulously under the cold tap, she was anxious.
158. Nevertheless, I do admit relishing its other benefits, particularly water on tap.
159. Do you know what's in your tap water? By law, your water company must tell you if you ask.
160. They're members of Wendy Jeffery's tap dancing class, and they just can't kick the habit.
161. Memory jogger To cancel a command before completing it, tap Esc for Escape.
162. Also, if you become totally and permanently disabled, you can tap your retirement savings at any age without penalty.
163. Hasn't anyone told Mrs Thatcher that bottled water can cost a thousand times as much as water from the tap?
164. I look up at the ceiling and tap my foot when my father and I argue, and this makes him furious.
165. If your tap water is of doubtful quality then you must be prepared to remedy the situation or use rain water instead.
166. Replace the taps To fit the new mixer tap follow step 2 in reverse. Sentencedict.com
167. And how pleasant it was to have some one to spoil, thought Agnes, running the tap.
168. An alternative method is to attach an electric drill water pump attachment to the tap.
169. In a test last year, tasters preferred London tap water to bottled mineral waters.
170. Now you could don solid-sequined tap shoes to hoof with Rosie and her tap team on an electronically amplified stop sign.
171. He immediately ordered a spinal tap that confirmed polio, and she was moved to the floor for contagious diseases.
172. If necessary use a metal bar to increase the leverage, then repeat for the further tap.
173. Off the room was a bathroom with a bucket, a shower tap and a cement floor.
174. The software that allows consumers to tap into the Net from their phones comes from Unwired Planet.
175. The door opened after a brief tap and the wench with the cardboard box came in.
176. Mrs Lowyer turned to look at him and saw him lean forward to tap out the pipe in the ashtray.
177. The bedroom lock is insecure and only one hot tap on a swivel trickles into both bath and basin.
178. She stretched to manipulate the hot tap with her toe.
179. Dole is now expected to tap a new source of campaign financing: the Republican National Committee.
180. There was a tap at the window, through the curly apertures in the lace.