tapping

The word “tapping” has 2 syllables: tap-ping

It's pronounced as /ˈtæpɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for tapping?

In the thesaurus, “tapping” has 87 synonyms and 17 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for tapping along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for tapping

  • banging
  • bashing
  • batting
  • beat
  • beating
  • bleeding
  • blow
  • bonking
  • bopping
  • boring
  • burrowing
  • chinking
  • chucking
  • clack
  • clapping
  • clattering
  • cleaning
  • clearing
  • click
  • clicking
  • clinking
  • decanting
  • depleting
  • digging
  • drafting
  • draining
  • drilling
  • drum signal
  • drumming
  • effusing
  • emptying
  • evacuating
  • exhausting
  • flash
  • flicking
  • flushing
  • hammering
  • hitting
  • hollowing
  • instant
  • knocking
  • metallic sound
  • milking
  • minute
  • moment
  • pasting
  • patting
  • pinging
  • pit-a-patting
  • pitter-pattering
  • pitting
  • pounding
  • prospecting
  • pulsation
  • pulse
  • pumping
  • purging
  • quarrying
  • rap
  • rapping
  • scooping
  • second
  • shake
  • siphoning
  • slamming
  • smacking
  • socking
  • striking
  • sucking
  • swatting
  • syphoning
  • tap
  • throb
  • thudding
  • thumping
  • thwacking
  • ticktock
  • tipping
  • tunneling
  • twinkling
  • unearthing
  • vacating
  • vacuating
  • voiding
  • walloping
  • whacking
  • wink

Antonyms for tapping

  • bathing
  • deluging
  • dousing
  • dowsing
  • drenching
  • drowning
  • filling
  • flooding
  • inundating
  • overflowing
  • soaking
  • sousing
  • submerging
  • swamping
  • washing
  • watering
  • wetting

Meanings of tapping

  • verb
    1. To furnish with taps.
    2. To draw off liquid from a vessel.
    3. To deplete, especially of a liquid via a tap; to tap out.
    4. To exploit.
    5. To place a listening or recording device on a telephone or wired connection.
    6. To intercept a communication without authority.
    7. To cut an internal screw thread.
    8. To turn or flip a card or playing piece to remind players that it has already been used that turn (by analogy to "tapping," in the sense of drawing on to the point of temporary exhaustion, the resources or abilities represented by the card).
    9. To cadge, borrow or beg.
    10. To drain off fluid by paracentesis.
    11. To advance someone for a post or job, or for membership of a club.
    12. To strike lightly.
    13. To touch one's finger, foot, or other body parts on a surface (usually) repeatedly.
    14. To make a sharp noise.
    15. To operate an electronic device (e.g. a mobile phone) by tapping a specific place on its (capacitive or other) touch screen.
    16. To designate for some duty or for membership, as in 'a tap on the shoulder'.
    17. To have sexual intercourse with.
    18. To submit to an opponent by tapping one's hand repeatedly.
    19. To force (an opponent) to submit.
    20. To put a new sole or heel on.
  • noun
    1. An act of making a light hit or strike against something.
    2. A guitar technique in which the strings are tapped against the fingerboard.
    3. The process by which a resource is tapped or exploited.

Example Sentences

  • She kept tapping her foot nervously during the interview.
  • He was tapping on the window to get their attention.
  • The musician started tapping the drum rhythmically.
  • They are tapping into new energy sources for sustainability.
  • She was tapping her fingers on the desk while thinking.

On this page you'll find 104 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to tapping, such as: banging, bashing, bathing, batting, beat, beating, bleeding.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

naming

  • ID
  • accepting
  • acknowledgment
  • adjudging
  • adjudicating
  • adopting
  • advertising
  • allotment
  • allusion
  • announcing
  • anointing
  • apperception
  • appointing
  • appointment
  • approval
  • arbitrating
  • arranging
  • assigning
  • assignment
  • assimilation
  • attaching
  • authorization
  • authorizing
  • badge
  • baptising
  • baptizing
  • bracelet
  • branding
  • bringing up
  • broaching
  • broadcasting
  • calling
  • cataloging
  • certification
  • characterizing
  • cherry-picking
  • chewing over
  • choice
  • choosing
  • christening
  • citation
  • citing
  • clarifying
  • classifying
  • cleping
  • code-naming
  • cogitating
  • comment
  • commissioning
  • concluding
  • consecrating
  • consecration
  • considering
  • constituting
  • contemplating
  • coordinating
  • copying
  • coronation
  • creating
  • credentials
  • crowning
  • culling
  • debating
  • deciding
  • decision
  • declaring
  • decreeing
  • delegating
  • delegation
  • deliberating
  • denominating
  • denoting
  • deputation
  • deputing
  • deputizing
  • description
  • designating
  • designation
  • destining
  • detailing
  • determining
  • distinguishing
  • dog tag
  • drafting
  • dropping
  • dubbing
  • electing
  • election
  • elucidating
  • embracing
  • empowering
  • entertaining
  • enthroning
  • entitling
  • espousing
  • establishing
  • establishment
  • excerpting
  • explaining
  • explicating
  • figuring
  • finding
  • fixing
  • footnote
  • handpicking
  • identity bracelet
  • implying
  • inaugurating
  • indicating
  • indication
  • inducting
  • inferring
  • infiltrating
  • insinuating
  • installation
  • installing
  • instancing
  • instating
  • instituting
  • intending
  • interjecting
  • interpolating
  • interposing
  • intimating
  • introducing
  • introduction
  • investing
  • investiture
  • judging
  • labeling
  • labelling
  • letter of introduction
  • letter of recommendation
  • making
  • making known
  • marking
  • meditating
  • mentioning
  • miscalling
  • misnaming
  • mistitling
  • nicknaming
  • nominating
  • nomination
  • note
  • notice
  • noticing
  • notification
  • noting
  • opting
  • option
  • orchestrating
  • ordaining
  • ordination
  • papers
  • passport
  • picking
  • placing
  • pointing out
  • pondering
  • preferring
  • preselecting
  • proclaiming
  • promotion
  • pronouncing
  • proposal
  • publicizing
  • publishing
  • questioning
  • quoting
  • rechristening
  • reciting
  • recognition
  • recognizing
  • recommendation
  • refereeing
  • reference
  • referring to
  • relabeling
  • relabelling
  • remark
  • renaming
  • resolving
  • ruling
  • ruminating
  • selecting
  • selection
  • setting
  • settling
  • showing
  • signaling
  • signalling
  • signifying
  • sounding
  • specifying
  • spelling out
  • stating
  • stigmatizing
  • studying
  • styling
  • suggesting
  • suggestion
  • surnaming
  • tabbing
  • tag
  • tagging
  • taking
  • taking note of
  • tapping
  • terming
  • testimony
  • throning
  • titling
  • tribute
  • umpiring
  • utterance
  • weighing
  • worming

palping

rabbit-punching

  • banging
  • bashing
  • battering
  • batting
  • beaning
  • beating
  • belting
  • biffing
  • bludgeoning
  • bobbing
  • bonking
  • bopping
  • boxing
  • braining
  • buffeting
  • bumping
  • bunging
  • bunting
  • busting
  • butting
  • caning
  • chopping
  • clapping
  • clipping
  • clobbering
  • clocking
  • clouting
  • clubbing
  • conking
  • cracking
  • creaming
  • cudgeling
  • cudgelling
  • cuffing
  • decking
  • drubbing
  • dumping
  • felling
  • flailing
  • flicking
  • flogging
  • flooring
  • hammering
  • hitting
  • jabbing
  • jostling
  • kicking
  • kneeing
  • knocking
  • knocking down
  • lacing
  • lambasting
  • lashing
  • leveling
  • levelling
  • licking
  • mangling
  • mauling
  • nailing
  • pasting
  • pelting
  • peppering
  • poking
  • pommeling
  • pommelling
  • pounding
  • prodding
  • pummeling
  • pummelling
  • punching
  • pushing
  • rapping
  • roughing
  • sapping
  • scuffing
  • shoving
  • skulling
  • slamming
  • slapping
  • slashing
  • sledgehammering
  • sledging
  • slogging
  • slugging
  • smacking
  • smiting
  • socking
  • spearing
  • stabbing
  • stamping
  • striking
  • stroking
  • sucker punching
  • swatting
  • swiping
  • switching
  • tagging
  • tapping
  • thrashing
  • thumping
  • thwacking
  • walloping
  • whacking
  • whaling
  • whipping
  • zapping

padding

  • ambling
  • ambulating
  • amplification
  • amplifying
  • bouncing
  • buffer
  • bumper
  • caricature
  • caricaturing
  • clumping
  • coloring
  • cushion
  • dressing up
  • elaboration
  • embellishing
  • embellishment
  • embroidering
  • embroidery
  • emphasizing
  • enhancement
  • enhancing
  • exaggerating
  • exaggeration
  • expanding
  • fabrication
  • faltering
  • fender
  • fill
  • filler
  • filling
  • footslogging
  • fudging
  • gimping
  • gussying up
  • hedging
  • hiking
  • hobbling
  • hype
  • hyperbole
  • hyperbolizing
  • interlining
  • limping
  • lining
  • lumbering
  • lurching
  • magnification
  • magnifying
  • marching
  • mincing
  • misrepresentation
  • moseying
  • nipping
  • overdoing
  • overdrawing
  • overemphasizing
  • overplaying
  • overstatement
  • overstating
  • pacing
  • packing
  • pad
  • parading
  • perambulating
  • peregrinating
  • playing up
  • plodding
  • pounding
  • power walking
  • prancing
  • promenading
  • protection
  • puffery
  • pussyfooting
  • quilting
  • rambling
  • sashaying
  • satirizing
  • sauntering
  • scuffing
  • shambling
  • shuffling
  • staggering
  • stalking
  • stepping
  • stepping out
  • stomping
  • stressing
  • stretching
  • striding
  • strolling
  • strutting
  • stuffing
  • stumbling
  • stumping
  • superlative
  • swaggering
  • tapping
  • tiptoeing
  • toddling
  • traipsing
  • tramping
  • trampling
  • treading
  • trekking
  • tripping
  • tromping
  • trooping
  • trotting
  • trudging
  • wadding
  • waddling
  • walking
  • wandering

hanging one on

  • banging
  • bashing
  • battering
  • batting
  • beaning
  • beating
  • belting
  • biffing
  • bludgeoning
  • bobbing
  • bonking
  • bopping
  • boxing
  • braining
  • buffeting
  • bumping
  • bunging
  • bunting
  • busting
  • butting
  • caning
  • chopping
  • clapping
  • clipping
  • clobbering
  • clocking
  • clouting
  • clubbing
  • conking
  • cracking
  • creaming
  • cudgeling
  • cudgelling
  • cuffing
  • decking
  • drubbing
  • dumping
  • felling
  • flailing
  • flicking
  • flogging
  • flooring
  • hammering
  • hitting
  • jabbing
  • jostling
  • kicking
  • kneeing
  • knocking
  • knocking down
  • lacing
  • lambasting
  • lashing
  • leveling
  • levelling
  • licking
  • mangling
  • mauling
  • nailing
  • pasting
  • pelting
  • peppering
  • poking
  • pommeling
  • pommelling
  • pounding
  • prodding
  • pummeling
  • pummelling
  • punching
  • pushing
  • rabbit-punching
  • rapping
  • roughing
  • sapping
  • scuffing
  • shoving
  • skulling
  • slamming
  • slapping
  • slashing
  • sledgehammering
  • sledging
  • slogging
  • slugging
  • smacking
  • smiting
  • socking
  • spearing
  • stabbing
  • stamping
  • striking
  • stroking
  • sucker punching
  • swatting
  • swiping
  • switching
  • tagging
  • tapping
  • thrashing
  • thumping
  • thwacking
  • walloping
  • whacking
  • whaling
  • whipping
  • zapping

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