0 to hit something gently, and often repeatedly, especially making short, sharp noises:
1 to get or make use of something:
2 to use a small device attached to a phone in order to listen secretly to what people are saying:
3 a device that controls the flow of liquid, especially water, from a pipe:
4 a gentle knock or touch, or the noise made by knocking something gently:
5 → tap dancing :
6 a small piece of equipment that can be attached to a phone in order to listen secretly to someone's phone calls:
He claims that he knew nothing of government phone taps on journalists during those years.
7 a sound made by the tongue moving upwards and downwards very quickly and hitting the alveolar area
8 to hit something lightly and quickly, or to make a sound by doing this:
9 to obtain or make use of something:
10 to wiretap a telephone
11 a device that controls the flow of liquid, esp. water; a faucet:
Please turn off the tap.
13 a wiretap:
They put a tap on her phone.
14 to get or make use of something that exists, such as money, skills, information, energy, etc.:
The company has tapped a $8750 general fund surplus to pay for the building projects.
Ultra-deep water drilling techniques allow them to tap energy reserves once thought to be out of reach.
tap into sth They are driven by a desire to tap into this lucrative commercial market.
tap sth for sth Do we have any assets that can be tapped for capital?
15 to choose someone for a job:
tap sb to do sth The board tapped him to lead the company through bankruptcy reorganization.
16 to put information, numbers, etc. into a computer, telephone, etc. by pressing buttons:
17 a piece of equipment that controls the flow of liquid or gas from a pipe:
I still haven't got round to fixing that tap.
Some idiot left the tap running in the bathroom and there's water everywhere.
Alternatively it could be that this factor taps into some other, structural, dimension of the local area.
They are tapping rubber that are no longer productive.
We, like many users of the task, would not want to claim that it taps directly into necessary stages of speech processing.
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打, (常指連續)輕拍,輕叩,輕敲, 輕觸(手機或平板電腦等給予指令)…
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打, (常指连续)轻拍,轻叩,轻敲, 轻触(手机或平板电脑等给予指令)…
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grifo, golpear ligeramente, tocar…
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torneira, dar pancadinhas em…
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蛇口, ~を軽くたたく, ~に軽く触れる…
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musluk, tıkırdı, hafif hafif vurma…
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taper, tapoter, exploiter…
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aixeta, donar copets (a), tustar…
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