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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"

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  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. David Axelrod:

    We know that there is this cohort out there who believe that we are being encroached on by illegal aliens, Muslims, China and Trump has tapped into that constituency.

  2. Donald Trump:

    Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my 'wires tapped' in Trump Tower just before the victory, is it legal for a sitting President to be 'wire tapping' a race for president?

  3. Carol Channing:

    I am proud of it now, but at the time I certainly didn’t know it was going to be that big of a deal, we just saw it as an opportunity to promote the current show. The result was very positive, so I did it again. I honestly can’t offer a comment on any others who have participated since then… I never had time to watch. [But] those who are tapped to do the halftime show are very lucky and part of a very exclusive club… which I suppose makes me the matriarch.

  4. Katy Martin:

    Students can see these connections that you don't see when you're kind of steeped in specific scientific training, so it's like a continual source of inspiration to see that we have not tapped out the pool of ideas -- there are still new ideas, even though we get hundreds each year, we see all kinds of awesome, undiscovered ideas that we never would have come up with ourselves.

  5. Kimberlee Robinson:

    I was taking it slow but apparently not slow enough and after I went to that corner I started slipping and did everything I thought I was supposed to, i tapped on the brakes, tried to steer into the skid but we started to slide off.

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