tapping

Speech parts

1. tapping - Noun

2. tapping - Verb

Derived from tap

Meaning

of Tap

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

patter clink clack using drum intercept click bang cast noise strike beat touch hitting pink
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Antonyms

garrison guard cover protect screen save
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Hypernyms

sound

Hyponyms

rat-a-tat-tat rat-a-tat rat-tat

Phrases with the word

tapping into phone tapping table tapping tapping machine most foot-tapping tapping point

Examples

Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping. John Steinbeck

Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness. Sandra Bernhard

It was one of history's great love stories, the mutually profitable romance which Hollywood and bohunk America conducted almost in the dark, a tapping of fervent messages through the wall of the San Gabriel Range. John Updike

The knee feels the tapping. Samoan Proverb

Tapping persistently breaks the stone. Welsh Proverb

A palm wine taper does not stop tapping palm wine because he once fell from the top of a palm wine tree. African Proverb

Close letter words and terms

tappet wrench tappice tappigraphy tapping into tapping machine tapping point