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

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

• 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.

• 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.

dabbing

nailing

naming

padding

quarrying

• boring
• burrowing
• clawing
• delving
• digging
• digging in
• dredging
• drilling
• excavating
• grubbing
• hollowing
• mining
• pitting
• prospecting
• scooping
• shoveling
• shovelling
• spading
• tapping
• tunneling
• unearthing

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