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 : --
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.