different between tap vs bat

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tæp/, [t?æp]
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /t??p/
• Rhymes: -æp

Etymology 1

From Middle English tappe, from Old English tæppa, from Proto-Germanic *tappô. The verb is from Middle English tappen, from Old English tæppian, from Proto-Germanic *tapp?n?, from the noun.

Noun

tap (plural taps)

1. A tapering cylindrical pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask.

   Synonyms: spigot, spile

2. A device used to dispense liquids.

   Synonyms: faucet, handle, spigot, spout

3. Liquor drawn through a tap; hence, a certain kind or quality of liquor.

4. A place where liquor is drawn for drinking.

   Synonyms: taproom, bar

5. (mechanics) A device used to cut an internal screw thread. (External screw threads are cut with a die.)

6. A connection made to an electrical or fluid conductor without breaking it.

7. An interception of communication by authority.
8. A device used to listen in secretly on telephone calls. [from 20th c.]
9. (medicine, informal) A procedure that removes fluid from a body cavity.

   Synonym: paracentesis

10. (finance) The situation where a borrowing government authority issues bonds over a period of time, usually at a fixed price, with volumes sold on a particular day dependent on market conditions.

    tap issue; a bond tap

Derived terms

• tapless
• taproom
• taproot
• tap water

Translations

Verb

tap (third-person singular simple present taps, present participle tapping, simple past and past participle tapped)

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. [from 19th c.]
6. To intercept a communication without authority.

   Synonym: eavesdrop

7. (mechanical) To cut an internal screw thread.

8. (card games, board games) 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. (informal) To cadge, borrow or beg.

10. (medicine, informal) To drain off fluid by paracentesis.
11. To advance someone for a post or job, or for membership of a club.

Derived terms

• on tap
• on the tap
• tap into
• tapped out
• tap to pay

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English tappen, teppen, from Old French tapper, taper (“to tap”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *tapp?n, *dabb?n (“to strike”) or from Middle Low German tappen, tapen ("to tap, rap, strike"); both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *dab- (“to strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?Ab?- (“to beat, strike, stun, be speechless”). Related to German tappen (“to grope, fumble”), Icelandic tappa, tapsa, tæpta (“to tap”). Related to dab.

Verb

tap (third-person singular simple present taps, present participle tapping, simple past and past participle tapped)

1. To strike lightly. [from early 13th c.]

2. To touch one's finger, foot, or other body parts on a surface (usually) repeatedly.

   Synonyms: hit, patter, pound, rap, strike; see also Thesaurus:hit

3. To make a sharp noise.

   Synonyms: hit, bang, ping, rap

4. (graphical user interface) To operate an electronic device (e.g. a mobile phone) by tapping a specific place on its (capacitive or other) touch screen.

   Coordinate term: click
5. To designate for some duty or for membership, as in 'a tap on the shoulder'. [from mid-20th c.]
6. (slang, vulgar, transitive) To have sexual intercourse with.

   Synonyms: go to bed with, hit, sleep with, wap; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
7. (combat sports) To submit to an opponent by tapping one's hand repeatedly.

   Synonym: tap out

8. (combat sports, transitive) To force (an opponent) to submit.

   Synonym: tap out
9. To put a new sole or heel on.

Translations

Noun

tap (plural taps)

1. A gentle or slight blow; a light rap; a pat.

   • each of them shakes her Fan at me with a smile , then gives her right-hand woman a tap upon the shoulder

2. (dance) Ellipsis of tap dance.
3. (computing, graphical user interface) The act of touching a touch screen.

   Coordinate term: click

4. A piece of leather fastened upon the bottom of a boot or shoe in repairing or renewing the sole or heel.

   Synonym: heeltap

5. (military) A signal, by drum or trumpet, for extinguishing all lights in soldiers' quarters and retiring to bed; usually given about a quarter of an hour after tattoo.
6. (phonetics) A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound [?] in the standard American English pronunciation of body.

   Synonym: flap

Translations

Etymology 3

Hindi [Term?]

Noun

tap

1. An Indian malarial fever.

References

Anagrams

• APT, ATP, PAT, PTA, Pat, TPA, ap't, apt, apt., pat

Albanian

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Noun

tap

1. struck, hit

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?tap/
• Rhymes: -ap

Noun

tap m (plural taps)

1. tap, spigot
2. (castells) A casteller inserted into an empty space in a pinya to make it more compact

Derived terms

• ésser un tap de barral

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Danish tapp.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tap/, [?t??b?]

Noun

tap c (singular definite tappen, plural indefinite tappe or tapper)

1. (mechanics) protruding component of a device
2. (anatomy) cone cell
3. (informal) penis
4. (erotic literature) clitoris
   • 2014, Hans Otto Jørgensen, Ove gasser op: Udvalgte noveller, Gyldendal A/S (?ISBN)

     Hun kælede for hullet med spidsen, krængede lapperne yderligere, og så fandeme kom også dér tappen til syne.

   • 2014, 2016, Christian Møgeltoft, Uskyld, Lindhardt og Ringhof (?ISBN)

     Da hans tunge fandt den lille hårde tap, klynkede hun som et barn, der bliver slået.

Inflection

Etymology 2

Acronym of teknisk-administrativt personale.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tap/, [?t??b?]

Noun

tap c (singular definite tap'en, plural indefinite tap'er)

1. member of technical and administrative staff

Inflection

Etymology 3

Verb

tap

1. imperative of tappe

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch tappe (“closing pin, stopper”), from Old Dutch *tappo, from Proto-Germanic *tappô.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?p/
• Hyphenation: tap
• Rhymes: -?p

Noun

tap m (plural tappen, diminutive tapje n)

1. tap

Usage notes

Although this term can be used to mean a tap from which water flows, this usage is rare; the more common term is kraan. It is most commonly used to refer to a beer tap.

Synonyms

• kraan

Derived terms

• biertap
• flappentap
• tapbier
• tappen

Descendants

• Afrikaans: tap

Icelandic

Etymology

From tapa (“to lose”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?a?p/
• Rhymes: -a?p

Noun

tap n (genitive singular taps, nominative plural töp)

1. loss, damage

Declension

Related terms

• tapa

K'iche'

Noun

tap

1. (Classical K'iche') crab

Lashi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tap/

Verb

tap

1. to make something burn
2. to make something stick

References

• Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid?^[4], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)

Middle English

Verb

tap

1. Alternative form of tappen (“to touch gently”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??p/

Noun

tap n (definite singular tapet, indefinite plural tap, definite plural tapa or tapene)

1. (a) loss

Derived terms

Related terms

• tape (Etymology 2)

References

• “tap” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??p/

Noun

tap n (definite singular tapet, indefinite plural tap, definite plural tapa)

1. (a) loss, defeat

Derived terms

References

• “tap” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Phalura

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tap/

Adverb

tap (Perso-Arabic spelling ??)

1. Co-lexicalized intensifier

References

• Liljegren, Henrik; Haider, Naseem (2011) Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)?^[5], Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, ?ISBN

Semai

Etymology

From Proto-Mon-Khmer. Cognate with Pacoh tâp (“to bury”), Riang [Lang] tap² ("to dam"), Mal t?ap ("to bury"), Mon ????? (“to bury”), Vietnamese ??p (“to cover something with a layer”).

Verb

tap

1. to bury

Synonyms

• (to bury): choop
• (to plant): chet

References

Spanish

Noun

tap m (uncountable)

1. tap, tap dancing

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: b?t, IPA^(key): /bæt/
• Rhymes: -æt

Etymology 1

Dialectal variant (akin to dialectal Swedish natt-batta) of Middle English bakke, balke, from North Germanic. Compare Old Swedish natbakka, Old Danish nathbakkæ (literally “night-flapper”), Old Norse leðrblaka (literally “leather-flapper”).

Noun

bat (plural bats)

1. Any of the flying mammals of the order Chiroptera, usually small and nocturnal, insectivorous or frugivorous.

   • The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.

   • 2012, Suemedha Sood, (bbc.co.uk) Travelwise: Texas love bats [sic]

     As well as being worth millions of dollars to the Texan agriculture industry, these mammals are worth millions of dollars to the state’s tourism industry. Texas is home to the world’s largest known bat colony (in Comal County), and the world’s largest urban bat colony (in Austin). Bat watching is a common activity, with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department offering more bat-viewing sites than anywhere else in the US.

2. (derogatory) An old woman.

Synonyms

• (flying mammal): chiropter, chiropteran, flindermouse, flittermouse, fluttermouse, flying-mouse, rearmouse/reremouse

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Animals
• Appendix:English collective nouns

Etymology 2

From Middle English bat, batte, from Old English batt (“bat, club, cudgel”), probably of Celtic origin, compare Old Breton bath (“club, cudgel”) and modern Breton bazh (“swagger stick”).

Noun

bat (plural bats)

1. A club made of wood or aluminium used for striking the ball in sports such as baseball, softball and cricket.
2. A turn at hitting the ball with a bat in a game.

3. (two-up) The piece of wood on which the spinner places the coins and then uses for throwing them.
4. (mining) Shale or bituminous shale.
   • 1799, Richard Kirwan, Geological Essays

     bituminous shale ; which miners , if I mistake not , call bat

5. A sheet of cotton used for filling quilts or comfortables; batting.
6. A part of a brick with one whole end.
7. A stroke; a sharp blow.
8. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) A stroke of work.
9. (informal) Rate of motion; speed.
   • 1842, Sporting Magazine (page 251)

     On starting, The Nun led at a very slow pace for a quarter of a mile, when the Shrigley colt made running at a good bat.

   • 1898, unknown author, Pall Mall Magazine

     a vast host of fowl […] making at full bat for the North Sea.

10. (US, slang, dated) A spree; a jollification.
11. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) Manner; rate; condition; state of health.

Synonyms

• (two-up): kip, stick, kylie, lannet

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

bat (third-person singular simple present bats, present participle batting, simple past and past participle batted)

1. (transitive) To hit with a bat or (figuratively) as if with a bat.

3. (intransitive) To take a turn at hitting a ball with a bat in sports like cricket, baseball and softball, as opposed to fielding.
4. (intransitive) To strike or swipe as though with a bat.

Derived terms

Translations

References

Etymology 3

Possibly a variant of bate.

Verb

bat (third-person singular simple present bats, present participle batting, simple past and past participle batted)

1. (transitive) To flutter

2. (US, Britain, dialect) To wink.
3. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) To bate or flutter, as a hawk.
4. (intransitive, usually with 'around' or 'about') To flit quickly from place to place.

Usage notes

Most commonly used in the phrase bat an eye, and variants thereof.

Derived terms

• bat an eye, bat an eyelash, bat an eyelid

Etymology 4

Borrowed from French bât, from Old French bast, from Vulgar Latin *bastum, form of *bast?re (“to carry”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (bastáz?, “to lift, carry”). Doublet of baton and baston.

Noun

bat (plural bats)

1. (obsolete) A packsaddle.

Derived terms

• batman

Etymology 5

Noun

bat

1. Dated form of baht (“Thai currency”).

Etymology 6

Noun

bat (plural bats)

1. (Caribbean, MLE) Clipping of batty (“fundament, tewel, butt”).

Anagrams

• ABT, ATB, B.T.A., BTA, TBA, Tab, abt, abt., tab

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• batu

Etymology

From Late Latin batt?, from Latin battu?. Compare Daco-Romanian bate, bat.

Verb

bat (third-person singular present indicative bati/bate, past participle bãtutã)

1. I beat, hit, strike.
2. I defeat.

Synonyms

• (beat): agudescu
• (defeat): azvingu

Related terms

• batiri/batire
• bãteri
• bãtut
• bãtutã
• strãbat

Basque

Etymology

From a reduced form of Proto-Basque *bade (“one, some”), present also in bederatzi (“nine”) and bedera (“same; everyone”). Compared by Eduardo Orduña and Joan Ferrer to Iberian ban (“one”).

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /bat/

Determiner

bat

1. a, an, some

Numeral

bat

1. one

Derived terms

• batasun (“unity”)

Pronoun

bat

1. (indefinite) some

Declension

Derived terms

• bakoitz (“each”)

References

Further reading

• “bat” in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia, euskaltzaindia.eus
• Azkue, Resurrección María de (1905–1906) , “bat”, in Diccionario vasco-español-francés = Dictionnaire basque-espagnol-français [Basque-Spanish-French Dictionary] (in Spanish and French), volume 1, Bilbao, page 137

Catalan

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -at

Verb

bat

1. third-person singular present indicative form of batre
2. second-person singular imperative form of batre

Cebuano

Alternative forms

• balat

Noun

bat

1. a type of sea cucumber

Chinese

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?b?ad?]

Etymology 1

From English bat.

Noun

bat n (singular definite battet, plural indefinite bat or bats)

1. bat (a club for striking a ball)

Inflection

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

bat

1. imperative of batte

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba/
• Homophones: bât, bas, bats

Verb

bat

1. third-person singular present indicative of battre

Anagrams

• t.a.b.

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?t/
• Rhymes: -a?t
• Homophones: Bad (standard, but not universal), Bart (some speakers)

Verb

bat

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of bitten
2. third-person singular preterite indicative of bitten

Jamaican Creole

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bat/
• Hyphenation: bat

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

bat (plural: bat dem, quantified: bat)

1. moth (nocturnal insect)

Derived terms

• dunce bat
• duppy bat

Etymology 2

From English bat.

Noun

bat (plural: bat dem, quantified: bat)

1. bat (instrument for hitting or striking)

Derived terms

1. old bat

References

• Richard Allsopp (main editor), Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, 2003 (reprint by The University of the West Indies Press, originally 1996 by Oxford University Press), ISBN 9789766401450 (originally ISBN-10: 976-640-145-4), page 83
• bat – jamaicans.com Jamaican Patois dictionary

Jingpho

Etymology

Borrowed from Burmese ??? (pat)

Noun

bat

1. week

References

• Kurabe, Keita (2016-12-31) , “Phonology of Burmese loanwords in Jinghpaw”, in Kyoto University Linguistic Research?^[2], volume 35, DOI:10.14989/219015, ISSN 1349-7804, pages 91–128

Luo

Noun

bat (plural bede)

1. arm

Middle Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bat/

Etymology 1

From Old Dutch *bath, from Proto-Germanic *baþ?.

Noun

bat n

1. bath

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: bad
• Limburgish: baad

Etymology 2

From Old Dutch *bat, *bet, from Proto-Germanic *batiz.

Adverb

bat

1. better; comparative degree of wel

   Synonym: beter

Alternative forms

• bet

Descendants

• Dutch: bet- only in betovergroot- (“great grand-”) and betweter (“know-it-all”)

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

bat

1. first/third-person singular past indicative of bidden

Further reading

• “bat (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “bat (III)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “bat (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “bet (III)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page bet

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English batt, from Celtic; influenced by Old French batte.

Alternative forms

• batt, batte, bot

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bat/, /b?t/

Noun

bat (plural battes or botten)

1. A mace, bat, or morningstar (blunt weapon)
2. (rare) A pole or stick used for other
3. (rare, Late Middle English) A strike or hit from a weapon.
4. (rare, Late Middle English) A clump of soft material.

Descendants

• English: bat, batt
• Scots: bat
• ? Irish: bata
• ? Scottish Gaelic: bata

References

• “bat, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-16.

Etymology 2

Noun

bat

1. (Northern) Alternative form of bot (“boat”)

Min Nan

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *bait.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??t/

Noun

b?t m or f (nominative plural b?tas)

1. boat

Declension

Descendants

Old French

Alternative forms

• bot, bote

Etymology

Borrowed from Old English b?t and Middle English bot.

Noun

bat m (oblique plural batz, nominative singular batz, nominative plural bat)

1. boat

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (bat)

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bad/

Verb

bat

1. inflection of is:
   1. third-person plural imperative
   2. third-person plural present subjunctive

Mutation

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bat/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *bat?.

Noun

bat m inan (diminutive bacik)

1. whip (rod)

   Synonym: bicz

Declension

Related terms

• (noun) batog
• (verb) bato?y?

Etymology 2

Noun

bat m inan

1. bateau (type of boat)

Declension

Etymology 3

From Thai ??? (bàat).

Noun

bat m inan

1. baht (official currency of Thailand)

Further reading

• bat in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• bat in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Verb

bat

1. first-person singular present indicative of bate
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of bate
3. third-person plural present indicative of bate

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *bat?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bât/

Noun

b?t m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. mallet
2. helve hammer

Declension

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ?????? (bast?), from ?????? (basmak).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bâ?t/

Noun

b?t m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. The tramp of heavy footsteps, as in a military march
   • 1939, ?edomir Minderovi?, Crven je istok i zapad:

     Napred, sve bliže i bliže, / ?uje se koraka bat. / Glas milijona se diže: / Dole fašizam i rat!

     Forward, ever closer and closer, / the tramp of footsteps is heard. / The voice of millions is raised: / Down with fascism and war!

2. (rare) The tramp of horses’ hooves

Declension

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bâ?t/

Noun

b?t m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. Alternative form of b?ht

Declension

References

• “bat” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal
• “bat” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal
• “bat” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Spanish

Etymology

From English bat.

Noun

bat m (plural bats)

1. (baseball) bat (act of batting)
2. Misspelling of baht.

Turkish

Verb

bat

1. sink (imperative)

Tzotzil

Pronunciation

• (Zinacantán) IPA^(key): /?ät?/

Verb

bat

1. (intransitive) to go

References

• Laughlin, Robert M. (1975) The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantán. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.
• Laughlin, Robert M. [et al.] (1988) The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of Santo Domingo Zinacantán, vol. I. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.

Westrobothnian

Noun

bat f

1. excrement
2. dirt, uncleanliness

Noun

bat m (definite batn, plural baat)

1. Alternative spelling of båt

Yola

Noun

bat

1. Alternative form of bath

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

Yucatec Maya

Noun

bat (plural bato?ob)

1. hail, hailstone

Zhuang

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /pa?t??/
• Tone numbers: bat⁷
• Hyphenation: bat

Etymology 1

From Chinese ? (MC pu?t?).

Noun

bat (Sawndip forms ? or ???? or ? or ? or ?, old orthography bat)

1. basin; bowl

   Synonym: (dialectal) angq

Derived terms

Classifier

bat (old orthography bat)

1. basin of; bowl of

Etymology 2

From Chinese ? (MC p??t?, “eight”). Doublet of bet.

Numeral

bat (old orthography bat)

1. eight (used in compounds)

   Synonym: bet