Tapped

Definition

tap 1 /tæp/ n ၁။ (also esp US faucet) ဘံုပိုင္ေခါင္း။ ပိုက္ေခါင္း။ hot and cold taps (eg on a sink or bath) ❍ turn the tap on/off ❍ Don't leave the taps running (ie Turn them off). Compare VALVE ၁ ၂။ တယ္လီဖုန္းၾကားျဖတ္နားေထာင္ ရန္ ကိရိယာ။ put a tap on sb's phone. v ( -pp- ) ၁။ (က) (စည္ထဲမွ) ေဖာက္သည္။ tap a cask of cider. (ခ) ~ sth (off) (from sth) (စည္ထဲမွ) ထုတ္သည္။ tap off some beer. ၂။ (ေရာ္ဘာပင္မွ)အေစးထုတ္ရန္ျခစ္သည္။ tap rubber-trees. ၃။ ေဖာ္ထုတ္သည္။ vast mineral wealth waiting to be tapped ❍ schemes to tap the skills of retired people. ၄။ တယ္လီဖုန္းၾကားျဖတ္နားေထာင္ရန္ ကိရိယာ တပ္ဆင္သည္။ I think my phone is being tapped. ❏ on tap [ IDM ] ၁။ စည္ (ဘီယာ)။ ၂။ အဆင္သင့္ရိွသည္။ have a supply of reliable workers on tap. ❏ tap sb for sth [ PHRV ] ( Brit infml ) ဆြဲသည္။ လွည့္သည္။ tap sb for a loan. ❏ tap root n ေရေသာက္ျမစ္။ ❏ tap water n [U] ဘံုပိုင္ေရ။ tap 2 /tæp/ v ( -pp-) (က) ေခါက္သည္။ ပုတ္သည္။ ႐ိုက္သည္။ Who's that tapping at the window? ❍ When I left he was still tapping away on his typewriter. ❍ tap sb on the shoulder ❍ tap out a beat on a drum. (ခ) ေခါက္သည္။ tapping her fingers on the table ❍ Everyone was tapping their feet (to the rhythm). လူတိုင္းဟာ ေျခေထာက္ႏွင့္ စည္းလိုက္ၾကတယ္။ n ဖြဖြေခါက္သံ။ အသာအယာပုတ္ျခင္း။ They heard a tap at the door. ❍ He felt a tap on his shoulder. ❍ She gave the lid a few gentle taps to loosen it. ❏ tap-dance n ဖိနပ္စည္းခ်က္လိုက္အက။ ❏ tap-dancer n ယင္းသို႔ကသူ။ ❏ tap-dancing n [U] ယင္းသို႔ကျခင္း။

Examples

1. Michael tapped his nose with his forefinger.
2. He tapped another code into the computer.
3. Several young men sat tapping away at keyboards (=using computers).
4. [tap at/on/against] : We could hear someone tapping at the door.
5. [tap someone on something] : I tapped him on the shoulder and he jumped.
6. If you have decided to attend a programme
7. tap this button to add and synchronise the event details.
8. Tap here to activate plugin.
9. The scheme aimed to tap underground water resources.
10. Tapping trees for rubber
11. [tap someone for something] : I’ll have to tap Mum for my bus fare.
12. Are you tapping your staff’s full potential?
13. Several other companies were already tapping this market.