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Definition of Tapped
1. Adjective. In a condition for letting out liquid drawn out as by piercing or drawing a plug. "Latex from tapped rubber trees"
Definition of Tapped
1. Verb. (past of tap) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tapped
1. tap [v] - See also: tap
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tapped
Literary usage of Tapped
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1902)
"Enlarged liver and spleen, ascites, several months duration ; tapped three ...
Case of advanced cirrhosis, ascites, three years duration ; tapped three ..."
2. Machine Tool Operation by Henry D. Burghardt (1919)
"Length of tapped Hole.—Except for the purpose of holding the screw fixed, as in
a tool post for example, it is unnecessary to have the tapped portion of a ..."
3. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1887)
"6d. to Government for each tree tapped. Under the British system, the owner obtains a
... If tapped, it ceases to be productive much earlier. Wild Animals. ..."
4. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1870)
"and that 135 patients, or nearly one-half, had never been tapped. ... In other
words, the mere fact that a patient has or has not been tapped (so far as can ..."
5. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art. by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1866)
"The ' ' Jones " well, put down in the latter part of 1862, within 30 feet of
the " Woodford," tapped the same vein, flowing 400 barrels per day. ..."
6. Machine Drawing: The Principles of Graphic Expression as Illustrated by by Gardner Chase Anthony (1910)
"The representation of tapped holes. When a tapped holes is dotted it may be ...
21 illustrates a tapped hole in section, and as these illustrations are ..."