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tapped

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. tappedadjective

    in a condition for letting out liquid drawn out as by piercing or drawing a plug

    "latex from tapped rubber trees"

ChatGPT

  1. tapped

    Tapped, in the most general sense, often refers to the action of lightly hitting or touching something. However, it can also have specific meanings in different contexts such as: 1. In music, it refers to a guitar playing technique where the strings are lightly hit to produce sound. 2. In dance, it relates to tap dance where dancers wear shoes with metal plates that produce rhythmic sounds. 3. In engineering and manufacturing, it refers to the process of cutting threads inside a hole to allow a screw or bolt to twist into. 4. In surveillance, it refers to the monitoring, recording, or interception of telecommunication lines like telephone calls, often secretly or illegally.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Tapped

    of Tap

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of tapped in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of tapped in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of tapped in a Sentence

  1. Nick Brody:

    After a year of mostly connecting in a virtual space, people are ready for in-person encounters, clearly,' Adrian's kickback' tapped into that need.

  2. Bruce Cain:

    He's pretty much articulating views that are on the right of the (Republican) Party, if he thinks that's the majority view, all the data indicates otherwise.... He sees his numbers surging. He thinks that he's tapped into a vein that hasn't previously been tapped. But we've seen that before. And frankly, I think it's fool's gold.

  3. Townes Van Zandt:

    I was just tapped on the shoulder from above and told to write these songs, as opposed to wanting to be a success in the music business.

  4. Alexian Lien:

    A motorcyclist pulls up in front of me, and he starts speeding up, slowing down, speeding up, slowing down, at a point where he slowed down too fast and I wasn't able to brake fast enough, so I tapped him. ... He didn't wobble, he didn't fall off his bike, continued.

  5. De Blasio:

    Trump has tapped into that frustration and layered it with a racist appeal.

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