vt.

1. 轻拍，轻叩，轻敲；（手指或触摸笔）点击（屏幕）
   He tapped me on the shoulder.

   她轻轻地拍拍我的肩。

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

   他轻轻地将烟斗里的烟灰敲出来。

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

   史密斯先生被指定为警察局长。

vi.

1. 轻拍，轻叩，轻敲[（+on）]
   Listen! Someone is tapping on the window.

   听！有人在敲窗户。

n.[C]

1. 轻拍，轻叩，轻敲
   There was a tap on the window.

   有人在轻叩窗户。

2. 鞋掌；鞋底

n.[C]

1. 龙头，阀门
   He left the tap open to fill the kitchen sink with water.

   他将水龙头开着让厨房的水槽注满水。

2. （酒桶等的）塞子，栓子
3. （电流）分接头
4. （电话）搭线窃听；窃听器
   They put a tap on his telephone and recorded all his calls.

   他们在他的电话上装上了窃听器，录下了所有通话。

5. 【医】（为抽液而作的）穿刺
6. 【机】攻牙器；牙攻

vt.

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

   他们打开桶塞放出啤酒。

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

   他们在这农场做割胶的工作。

3. 接通（总电源，总水源等）
   They tapped the water main to supply the new residential quarters.

   他们接通了总水管为新住宅区供水。

4. 在……装窃听器
   I guess our telephone has been tapped.

   我猜想我们的电话被窃听了。

5. 开发，开辟
   The scientists are thinking of a new way of tapping the solar energy.

   科学家正在设想一种新的利用太阳能的方法。

6. 【机】攻（螺）牙
7. 讨（钱）

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.