tapping

nounverbcommon in dialogue

An act of making a light hit or strike against something.

noun

1
An act of making a light hit or strike against something.
As he was speaking there was a soft tapping at the door. I went over and opened it […]
She has rapid and powerful footwork, but she doesn’t wow you with any special trills or woodpecker tappings.
2
A guitar technique in which the strings are tapped against the fingerboard
3
The process by which a resource is tapped or exploited.
Competitive tappings of a common oil pool can lead only to waste and overproduction, unless rigidly regulated […]
4
A connection made to some point between the end terminals of a transformer coil or other component.
The essential feature is that two adjacent transformer tappings are connected to the load simultaneously, each connection having a self-excited transductor in series; […].

verb

1
Also a form of tappresent participle and gerund of tap

Forms

plural: tappings

Tape · a nearly extinct language spoken on Vanuatu taping · The act of recording something on tape, or (by extension) on…tapped · Having a tap or taps.

tapping · An act of making a light hit or strike against something.

taps · A signal, by drum or trumpet, for extinguishing all lights in…Taps · A bugle call played by the United States Armed Forces at…tar · A black, oil, sticky, viscous substance, consisting mainly of…

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