Taps Synonyms and Antonyms

tăps
(military) signal to turn the lights out
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. drum taps
  2. trumpet call
  3. bugle taps
  4. bugle call
  5. lights-out
  6. tribute for the dead
  7. dirge
  8. light-out signal
  9. dabs
A partial sole used for repair
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. covers
  2. guards
  3. patches
  4. reinforcements
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A gentle blow
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. rap
  2. strikes
  3. dabs
  4. knocks
A spigot
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. spigots
  2. spouts
  3. hydrants
Tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. bugs
  2. intercepts
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To remove (a liquid) by a steady, gradual process
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. drains
  2. empties
  3. pumps
  4. draws
To select for an office or position
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. nominates
  2. names
  3. makes
  4. designates
  5. appoints
Make light, repeated taps on a surface
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. raps
  2. tips
  3. touches
  4. knocks
  5. pats
Draw from; make good use of
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. spikes
  2. exploits
  3. stabs
  4. broaches
  5. drills
  6. bores
  7. pierces
  8. perforates
Antonyms:
  1. closes
Make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. begs
  2. solicits
To select, as for membership in an organization; designate.
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. appoints

Words Related to Taps

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Taps Sentence Examples

  • He then pours or taps the molten charge from the furnace into a large clay-lined casting ladle, giving it the final additions of manganese, usually with carbon and often with silicon, needed to give it exactly the desired composition.

  • The karez is a system of underground channelling which usually taps a sub-surface water supply at the foot of some of the many rugged and apparently waterless hills which cover the face of the country.

  • Out of his war experiences came in 1866 his Drum Taps, subsequently incorporated into the main volume.

  • A southward extension taps the Southern Pacific at El Paso, Texas, and Deming, New Mexico, and there are numerous shorter branches.

  • The province is intersected by a railway running from St Petersburg to Reval, with branches from the latter city westwards to Baltic Port and southwards into Livonia, and from Taps south to Yuryev (Dorpat).

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