English Dictionary

tap

IPA（発音記号）

/tæp/

動詞

くだけた表現

To furnish with taps. / To draw off liquid from a vessel. / To deplete, especially of a liquid via a tap; to tap out. / To exploit.

日本語の意味

蛇口を取り付ける、設置する / 容器から液体を取り出す / 液体などを（特に蛇口を通じて）使い果たす、尽くす / 利用する、悪用する、搾取する

The plumbers will tap the renovated kitchens, installing new faucets and piping for each unit.

配管工は改装された台所に蛇口を取り付け、各戸に新しい配管を設置します。

意味（1）

To furnish with taps.

If we tap the maple trees, we can get maple syrup!

意味（2）

To draw off liquid from a vessel.

He tapped a new barrel of beer.

意味（3）

To deplete, especially of a liquid via a tap; to tap out.

意味（4）

To exploit.

Businesses are trying to tap the youth market.

意味（5）

To place a listening or recording device on a telephone or wired connection.

They can't tap the phone without a warrant.

意味（6）

To intercept a communication without authority.

He was known to tap cable television.

意味（7）

(mechanical) To cut an internal screw thread.

Tap an M3 thread all the way through the hole.

意味（8）

(card games, board games) To turn or flip a card or playing piece to remind players that it has already been used that turn (by analogy to "tapping," in the sense of drawing on to the point of temporary exhaustion, the resources or abilities represented by the card).

I think there's an expression in poker. I'll tap you, Mr. Maverick.

意味（9）

(informal) To cadge, borrow or beg.

I tried to tap a cigarette off him, but he wouldn't give me one.

意味（10）

(medicine, informal) To drain off fluid by paracentesis.

意味（11）

To advance someone for a post or job, or for membership of a club.

Trump interviewed Mueller for FBI job day before he was tapped for special counsel.

taps （ present singular third-person ）

tapping （ participle present ）

tapped （ participle past ）

tapped （ past ）