vt.

1. 輕拍，輕叩，輕敲；（手指或觸摸筆）點擊（螢幕）
   He tapped me on the shoulder.

   她輕輕地拍拍我的肩。

2. 輕輕敲出（或敲掉）[O]
   He tapped the ashes out of his pipe.

   他輕輕地將菸斗裡的菸灰敲出來。

3. 補鞋底
4. 【美】指定，選定
   Mr. Smith was tapped for police commissioner.

   史密斯先生被指定為警察局長。

vi.

1. 輕拍，輕叩，輕敲[（+on）]
   Listen! Someone is tapping on the window.

   聽！有人在敲窗戶。

n.[C]

1. 輕拍，輕叩，輕敲
   There was a tap on the window.

   有人在輕叩窗戶。

2. 鞋掌；鞋底

n.[C]

1. 龍頭，閥門
   He left the tap open to fill the kitchen sink with water.

   他將水龍頭開著讓廚房的水槽注滿水。

2. （酒桶等的）塞子，栓子
3. （電流）分接頭
4. （電話）搭線竊聽；竊聽器
   They put a tap on his telephone and recorded all his calls.

   他們在他的電話上裝上了竊聽器，錄下了所有通話。

5. 【醫】（為抽液而作的）穿刺
6. 【機】攻牙器；牙攻

vt.

1. 裝上塞子（嘴子）
   They tapped a barrel of beer.

   他們打開桶塞放出啤酒。

2. 在（樹）上刻痕取液
   They worked on the farm, tapping rubber trees.

   他們在這農場做割膠的工作。

3. 接通（總電源，總水源等）
   They tapped the water main to supply the new residential quarters.

   他們接通了總水管為新住宅區供水。

4. 在……裝竊聽器
   I guess our telephone has been tapped.

   我猜想我們的電話被竊聽了。

5. 開發，開闢
   The scientists are thinking of a new way of tapping the solar energy.

   科學家正在設想一種新的利用太陽能的方法。

6. 【機】攻（螺）牙
7. 討（錢）

n.

1. a device by which a flow of liquid or gas from a pipe or container can be controlled.
2. an instrument for cutting a threaded hole in a material.
3. a device connected to a telephone for listening secretly to conversation.
4. (also tapping) Brit. an electrical connection made to some point between the end terminals of a transformer coil or other component.
5. Brit. a taproom.

v.

1. draw liquid through the tap or spout of (a cask, barrel, etc.).
2. draw sap from (a tree) by cutting into it.
3. exploit or draw a supply from (a resource).
   ▸informal obtain money or information from.
4. connect a device to (a telephone) so that conversation can be listened to secretly.
5. cut a thread in (something) to accept a screw.

v.

1. strike or knock with a quick light blow or blows.
   ▸strike lightly and repeatedly against something else:

   she was tapping her feet.
2. (tap someone up) Brit. informal approach (a sports player) illegally with a view to signing them to another club while they are still under contract with their current one.
3. N. Amer. informal designate or select for a task or honour.

n.

1. a quick light blow or the sound of such a blow.
2. tap dancing.
   ▸a piece of metal attached to the toe and heel of a tap dancer's shoe to make a tapping sound.
3. (taps) [treated as sing. or pl.] US a bugle call for lights to be put out in army quarters.
   ▸a similar call sounded at a military funeral.
   ▸Brit. (in the Guide movement) a closing song sung at an evening camp fire or at the end of a meeting.