каква е дефиницията на tap?

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tap Определение На български

0 to hit something gently, and often repeatedly, especially making short, sharp noises: --
- When I tapped on the update button, the screen went blank.
- You can manage the repeat and shuffle options by tapping the screen once and swiping to the left.
- Someone tapped me on the shoulder.
- I was tapping my feet (= hitting the floor gently with my feet) to the music.
- I could hear him tapping his fingers on the desk.
- The branches tapped against the window.
1 to get or make use of something: --
- There is a rich vein of literary talent here just waiting to be tapped by publishers.
- For more than a century, Eastern cities have expanded their water supplies by tapping ever more remote sources.
2 to use a small device attached to a phone in order to listen secretly to what people are saying: --
- He suspected that his phone had been tapped.
3 a device that controls the flow of liquid, especially water, from a pipe: --
- Working in a library as I do, I have all this information on tap.
- Some beer taps produced more foam than beer.
- Turn the tap on/off.
- the hot/cold tap
4 a gentle knock or touch, or the noise made by knocking something gently: --
- There was a tap on the window - Dad was outside!
- I gave her a tap on the shoulder and she turned around.
5 → tap dancing : --
- He teaches tap and ballroom.

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Within the groups of metered tap and non-tap households, however, our data are likely to be largely representative.
Infants' expressed emotions were measured with four different observational methods that, in aggregate, tap positive and negative emotional responses across a broad range of situations.
The pattern of intercorrelations across various submeasures of exam performance was not uniform, suggesting that different exam components were tapping a range of different abilities.
The child was instructed to listen for the target word dog and to raise or tap a finger whenever he or she heard the target.
Thus, vocabulary knowledge and the skills tapped by the ability to recognize written words were associated with naming ability.
This test taps children's ability to recall appropriate words in context and provides information pertaining to receptive and expressive vocabulary.
Whenever a town succeeded in tapping a larger supply of water, its drainage became a more acute problem.
The hind legs rubbed or tapped repeatedly on the ventral surface of the female's abdomen.