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TAPPED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a condition for letting out liquid drawn out as by piercing or drawing a plug
Example:
latex from tapped rubber trees
Classified under:
Similar:
abroach; broached (of a cask or barrel)
Antonym:
untapped (not subjected to tapping)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb tap
Context examples:
Mr. Wickfield tapped at a door in a corner of the panelled wall, and a girl of about my own age came quickly out and kissed him.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
"Come in!" and Mr. Laurence's gruff voice sounded gruffer than ever, as Jo tapped at his door.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Felix replied in a cheerful accent, and the old man was recommencing his music when someone tapped at the door.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Their slow reptilian natures cared nothing for wounds, and the springs of their lives, with no special brain center but scattered throughout their spinal cords, could not be tapped by any modern weapons.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Sunflowers, like solar panel arrays, follow the sun from east to west. The researchers tapped into information in the sunflower genome to understand how and why sunflowers track the sun.
(Sunflowers move from east to west, and back, by the clock, NSF)
As she told me she tapped playfully with the heel of her boot on the stone slab and said:—"My poor little feet didn't make much noise then! I daresay poor old Mr. Swales would have told me that it was because I didn't want to wake up Geordie."
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
He was plainly blind, for he tapped before him with a stick and wore a great green shade over his eyes and nose; and he was hunched, as if with age or weakness, and wore a huge old tattered sea-cloak with a hood that made him appear positively deformed.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
I tapped at the door as agreed.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I tapped upon the floor, but it sounded the same all over, and there was no sign of any crack or crevice.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the shoulder, and pointed over the meadows.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
