| tap | (noun) a light touch or stroke | Synonyms: dab, pat |
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| (noun) the act of tapping a telephone or telegraph line to get information | Synonyms: wiretap |
| (noun) a faucet for drawing water from a pipe or cask | Synonyms: hydrant, water faucet, water tap |
| (noun) a plug for a bunghole in a cask | Synonyms: spigot |
| (noun) a tool for cutting female (internal) screw threads | - |
| (noun) a small metal plate that attaches to the toe or heel of a shoe (as in tap dancing) | - |
| (noun) the sound made by a gentle blow | Synonyms: pat, rap |
| (noun) a gentle blow | Synonyms: rap, strike |
| (verb) make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently | Synonyms: beg, solicit |
| (verb) draw from; make good use of | Synonyms: exploit |
| (verb) strike lightly | Synonyms: tip |
| (verb) cut a female screw thread with a tap | - |
| (verb) pierce in order to draw a liquid from | - |
| (verb) walk with a tapping sound | - |
| (verb) dance and make rhythmic clicking sounds by means of metal plates nailed to the sole of the dance shoes | Synonyms: tapdance |
| (verb) draw (liquor) from a tap | - |
| (verb) tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information | Synonyms: bug, intercept, wiretap |
| (verb) make light, repeated taps on a surface | Synonyms: knock, pink, rap |
| (verb) draw from or dip into to get something | - |
| (verb) furnish with a tap or spout, so as to be able to draw liquid from it | - |
| tapa | (noun) a paperlike cloth made in the South Pacific by pounding tapa bark | Synonyms: tappa |
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| (noun) the thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus | Synonyms: tapa bark, tappa, tappa bark |
| tapdance | (verb) dance and make rhythmic clicking sounds by means of metal plates nailed to the sole of the dance shoes | Synonyms: tap |
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| tape | (noun) a long thin piece of cloth or paper as used for binding or fastening | - |
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| (noun) a recording made on magnetic tape | Synonyms: tape recording, taping |
| (noun) measuring instrument consisting of a narrow strip (cloth or metal) marked in inches or centimeters and used for measuring lengths | Synonyms: tape measure, tapeline |
| (noun) memory device consisting of a long thin plastic strip coated with iron oxide; used to record audio or video signals or to store computer information | Synonyms: mag tape, magnetic tape |
| (noun) the finishing line for a foot race | - |
| (verb) register electronically | Synonyms: record |
| (verb) record on videotape | Synonyms: videotape |
| (verb) fasten or attach with tape | - |
| taped | (adjective) secured or held in place by tape | - |
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| (adjective) recorded on tape | Synonyms: tape-recorded |
| tapeline | (noun) measuring instrument consisting of a narrow strip (cloth or metal) marked in inches or centimeters and used for measuring lengths | Synonyms: tape, tape measure |
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| tapenade | (noun) a spread consisting of capers and black olives and anchovies made into a puree with olive oil | - |
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| taper | (noun) stick of wax with a wick in the middle | Synonyms: candle, wax light |
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| (noun) a loosely woven cord (in a candle or oil lamp) that draws fuel by capillary action up into the flame | Synonyms: wick |
| (noun) the property possessed by a shape that narrows toward a point (as a wedge or cone) | - |
| (noun) a convex shape that narrows toward a point | - |
| (verb) give a point to | Synonyms: point, sharpen |
| (verb) diminish gradually | - |
| tapered | (adjective) becoming gradually narrower | Synonyms: narrowing, tapering |
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| tapering | (adjective) gradually decreasing until little remains | Synonyms: dwindling, tapering off |
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| (adjective) becoming gradually narrower | Synonyms: narrowing, tapered |
| (noun) the act of gradually lowering the size or amount | - |
| tapestried | (adjective) hung or decorated with tapestry | - |
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| tapestry | (noun) a wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric often with pictorial designs | Synonyms: arras |
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| (noun) a heavy textile with a woven design; used for curtains and upholstery | Synonyms: tapis |
| (noun) something that resembles a tapestry in its intricacy | - |
| tapeworm | (noun) ribbonlike flatworms that are parasitic in the intestines of humans and other vertebrates | Synonyms: cestode |
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| taphephobia | (noun) a morbid fear of being buried alive | - |
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| taphouse | (noun) tavern consisting of a building with a bar and public rooms; often provides light meals | Synonyms: gin mill, pothouse, pub, public house, saloon |
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| taping | (noun) a recording made on magnetic tape | Synonyms: tape, tape recording |
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| tapinosis | (noun) (rhetoric) A figure of speech whereby something is given less importance by the name given it than it merits. | - |
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| tapioca | (noun) granular preparation of cassava starch used to thicken especially puddings | - |
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| tapir | (noun) large inoffensive chiefly nocturnal ungulate of tropical America and southeast Asia having a heavy body and fleshy snout | - |
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| tapis | (noun) a heavy textile with a woven design; used for curtains and upholstery | Synonyms: tapestry |
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| tapotement | (noun) massage in which the body is tapped rhythmically with the fingers or with short rapid movements of the sides of the hand; used to loosen mucus on the chest walls of patients with bronchitis | - |
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| tappa | (noun) a paperlike cloth made in the South Pacific by pounding tapa bark | Synonyms: tapa |
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| (noun) the thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus | Synonyms: tapa, tapa bark, tappa bark |
| tapped | (adjective) in a condition for letting out liquid drawn out as by piercing or drawing a plug | - |
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| tapper | (noun) someone who wiretaps a telephone or telegraph wire | Synonyms: phone tapper, wiretapper |
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| (noun) a tavern keeper who taps kegs or casks | Synonyms: tapster |
| (noun) a worker who uses a tap to cut screw threads | - |
| (noun) a dancer who sounds out rhythms by using metal taps on the toes and heels of the shoes | Synonyms: tap dancer |
| (noun) a person who strikes a surface lightly and usually repeatedly | - |
| tappet | (noun) a lever that is moved in order to tap something else | - |
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| tapping | (noun) the sound of light blow or knock | - |
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| taproom | (noun) a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter | Synonyms: bar, barroom, ginmill, saloon |
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| taproot | (noun) something that provides an important central source for growth or development | - |
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| (noun) (botany) main root of a plant growing straight downward from the stem | - |
| taps | (noun) (military) signal to turn the lights out | Synonyms: lights-out |
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| tapster | (noun) a tavern keeper who taps kegs or casks | Synonyms: tapper |
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