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Exact Match:

tap

a light touch or stroke

a plug for a bunghole in a cask

a tool for cutting female (internal) screw threads

a small metal plate that attaches to the toe or heel of a shoe (as in tap dancing)

strike lightly; "He tapped me on the shoulder"

cut a female screw thread with a tap

pierce in order to draw a liquid from; "tap a maple tree for its syrup"; "tap a keg of beer"

draw (liquor) from a tap; "tap beer in a bar"

walk with a tapping sound

make light, repeated taps on a surface; "he was tapping his fingers on the table impatiently"

draw from or dip into to get something; "tap one's memory"; "tap a source of money"

furnish with a tap or spout, so as to be able to draw liquid from it; "tap a cask of wine"

Synonyms:

• Gramophone,
• PA,
• PA system,
• Victrola,
• abridge,
• adjutage,
• air hole,
• appoint,
• armhole,
• at hand,
• attend,
• attend to,
• audio sound system,
• audiophile,
• auger,
• auscultate,
• available,
• avenue,
• ball cock,
• ball valve,
• bang,
• bar,
• barroom,
• be all ears,
• beak,
• beat,
• beat a tattoo,
• beat the drum,
• beat time,
• beating,
• bend an ear,
• bereave,
• binaural system,
• bitch box,
• bite,
• bleed,
• blowhole,
• bob,
• bore,
• breath,
• broach,
• brush,
• bug,
• bulb,
• bulbil,
• bullet-hole,
• bullhorn,
• bump,
• bung,
• bunghole,
• bunt,
• burst,
• bust,
• caress,
• cartridge,
• catheter,
• ceramic pickup,
• changer,
• channel,
• check valve,
• chink,
• chuck,
• chute,
• clap,
• clash,
• cleave,
• click,
• clink,
• clop,
• clump,
• clunk,
• cock,
• cock the ears,
• cocktail lounge,
• come in contact,
• contact,
• cork,
• corm,
• count,
• count the beats,
• countersink,
• crack,
• crash,
• crevasse,
• cringle,
• crump,
• crystal pickup,
• curtail,
• cut,
• cut off,
• cut open,
• cutaneous sense,
• dab,
• deadeye,
• debouch,
• decant,
• deprive,
• deprive of,
• derived four-channel system,
• discrete four-channel system,
• disentitle,
• dispart,
• divaricate,
• divest,
• divide,
• door,
• draft,
• draft off,
• drain,
• drain cock,
• drainpipe,
• draw,
• draw cock,
• draw from,
• draw off,
• draw on,
• drill,
• drinkery,
• drum,
• dull thud,
• ease one of,
• eavesdrop,
• efflux tube,
• egress,
• empierce,
• empty,
• emunctory,
• escape,
• estuary,
• examine by ear,
• exhaust,
• exit,
• extract,
• eye,
• eyelet,
• faucet,
• feel,
• feel of,
• feeling,
• fillip,
• finger,
• fingertip caress,
• fire hose,
• fissure,
• fix,
• flap,
• flick,
• flip,
• flirt,
• floodgate,
• flop,
• flue pipe,
• flume,
• flump,
• fly open,
• four-channel stereo system,
• funnel,
• garden hose,
• gas pipe,
• gasket,
• gate,
• give attention,
• give audience to,
• give ear,
• glance,
• gore,
• gouge,
• gouge out,
• graze,
• groggery,
• grogshop,
• grommet,
• guide,
• hammer,
• hand-mindedness,
• handle,
• hark,
• hear,
• hear out,
• hearken,
• heed,
• hi-fi,
• hi-fi fan,
• high-fidelity,
• hit,
• hole,
• honeycomb,
• hose,
• hosepipe,
• hydrant,
• impale,
• in reserve,
• incise,
• intercept,
• intercom,
• intercommunication system,
• jukebox,
• keep time,
• keyhole,
• kiss,
• knock,
• knocking,
• knothole,
• lambency,
• lance,
• lap,
• lay open,
• lend an ear,
• let,
• let blood,
• let out,
• lick,
• lid,
• light touch,
• lighten one of,
• listen,
• listen at,
• listen in,
• listen to,
• loop,
• loophole,
• magnetic pickup,
• make,
• make use of,
• manhole,
• manipulate,
• milk,
• mine,
• monaural system,
• mono,
• mousehole,
• name,
• needle,
• needle valve,
• nickelodeon,
• nipple,
• nominate,
• on call,
• on hand,
• on tap,
• ope,
• open,
• open up,
• opening,
• organ pipe,
• out,
• outcome,
• outfall,
• outgate,
• outgo,
• outlet,
• pad,
• palm,
• palpate,
• part,
• pat,
• patter,
• paw,
• peck,
• pecking,
• peephole,
• peg,
• penetrate,
• perforate,
• petcock,
• phlebotomize,
• phonograph,
• photoelectric pickup,
• pick,
• pickup,
• pierce,
• pigeonhole,
• pin,
• pinhole,
• pink,
• pipe,
• pipeline,
• pipette,
• piping,
• pitapat,
• pitter-patter,
• placket,
• placket hole,
• play drum,
• plug,
• plump,
• plunk,
• ply,
• poke at,
• pop,
• pore,
• port,
• porthole,
• pothouse,
• pound,
• prick,
• prod,
• pub,
• public house,
• public-address system,
• pump,
• pump out,
• punch,
• punch-hole,
• puncture,
• put through channels,
• put to use,
• quadraphonic sound system,
• radicle,
• radio-phonograph combination,
• radix,
• rap,
• rapping,
• ready,
• ream,
• ream out,
• record changer,
• record player,
• reed,
• reed pipe,
• rent,
• report,
• rhizome,
• riddle,
• rift,
• rip,
• rive,
• root,
• rootstock,
• rub,
• ruffle,
• run through,
• sally port,
• sap,
• sea cock,
• sense of touch,
• separate,
• siamese,
• siamese connection,
• siphon,
• siphon off,
• sit in on,
• skewer,
• slam,
• slap,
• slat,
• slit,
• sluice,
• smack,
• smite,
• snap,
• snorkel,
• soil pipe,
• sound a tattoo,
• sound reproduction system,
• sound truck,
• spear,
• spigot,
• spike,
• spile,
• spill,
• spiracle,
• spit,
• splat,
• split,
• spout,
• spread,
• spread out,
• spring open,
• squawk box,
• stab,
• standpipe,
• steam pipe,
• stem,
• stereo,
• stick,
• stop,
• stopcock,
• stopgap,
• stopper,
• stopple,
• straw,
• strike,
• stroke,
• stylus,
• suck,
• suck out,
• swap,
• swing open,
• system,
• tactile sense,
• taction,
• take away from,
• take from,
• tape deck,
• tape recorder,
• tapping,
• taproom,
• taproot,
• tear,
• tear open,
• tentative poke,
• throw open,
• thrum,
• thud,
• thumb,
• thump,
• thwack,
• tick,
• tickle,
• tinkle,
• tip,
• tom-tom,
• tone arm,
• touch,
• transcription turntable,
• transfix,
• transpierce,
• trepan,
• trephine,
• tube,
• tuber,
• tubercle,
• tubing,
• tubulation,
• tubule,
• tubulet,
• tubulure,
• tunk,
• turn to account,
• turntable,
• twiddle,
• unplug,
• use,
• utilize,
• valve,
• valvula,
• valvule,
• venesect,
• vent,
• ventage,
• venthole,
• vomitory,
• waiting,
• waste pipe,
• water pipe,
• way out,
• weir,
• whack,
• wham,
• whap,
• whisk,
• whisper,
• whomp,
• whop,
• wield,
• wiretap,
• withdraw