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Main Entry:	tap
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	faucet
Synonyms:	bibcock, cock, egress, hydrant, nozzle, petcock, spigot, spout, stopcock, valve

Main Entry:	tap
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	pierce to drain
Synonyms:	bleed, bore, broach, draft, drain, draw, draw forth, draw off, draw out, drill, empty, lance, milk, mine, open, penetrate, perforate, pump, riddle, siphon, spear, spike, stab, unplug, unstopper, use, utilize

Main Entry:	adopt
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	choose or take something as one's own
Synonyms:	accept, adapt, affiliate, affirm, appropriate, approve, assent, assume, borrow, embrace, endorse, espouse, follow, go down the line, go in for, imitate, maintain, mimic, opt, ratify, seize, select, support, take on, take over, take up, tap, use, utilize
Antonyms:	disown, leave alone, reject, repudiate, repulse

Example Sentences

They take one style of tap dancing and perfect it until it becomes their specialty.

Worthy of a separate thread is how to tap your retirement accounts before the required minimum age without paying a penalty.

Armies can also tap wireless-networking gear mounted on drones and balloons to keep soldiers connected in the field.

They take one style of tap dancing and perfect it until it becomes their specialty.

Worthy of a separate thread is how to tap your retirement accounts before the required minimum age without paying a penalty.

Armies can also tap wireless-networking gear mounted on drones and balloons to keep soldiers connected in the field.

As sugary sodas fizzle in schools, kids are turning to bottled water instead of tap water, which is often contaminated by lead.

The government may not be doing enough to regulate contaminants in tap water.

Some are tasty, others will kill you with the tap of a tentacle.

Add a tea light or a tap light and beam your undercover message to the world.

In order for the experiment to work, the cool water had to be distilled, and the hot water had to come from the tap.

According to surveys, public concern about tap water is in.

It is also important to make sure that program leaders overseas know how to tap the right resources back on their campuses.

His shops became a favourite place for affluent or bookish people to hang out, sip cappuccinos and tap away at their laptops.

They also took samples of the tap water in these locations.

My bottles, however, contained tap water and were nestled in small cages on the frame of.

Dracula proved to be one of those rare tales that tap a vein deep within the human psyche.

Blot any juice from the cut end, then tap it onto your ink pad to cover the star's entire surface.

It appears robot vacuums tap into the same instincts, and people are falling in.

If the police officer hadn't met his stare, answered that tap or done something overt, there would be no news story.

It took some tap dancing on my part to figure out how to address the issues of humor and civility in the same breath.

Too puny to be able to tap capital markets, they are at the mercy of the banks.

During this unit students will be testing their tap water for chlorine and nitrates.

Researchers adapt a test for unconscious bias to tap secrets of the heart.

He did the best he could to lift and tap one foot after the other not quite along with the beat.

Invert the mold and tap it with a mallet to free the pot.

Tap an album cover and it flips around, showing you a scrollable list of tracks.

Margules wants to tap into federal, state and private funds by increasing the amount of grant proposals the university submits.

Residents, or their weary employees, set their alarm clocks to turn on the tap before the flow dribbles away to nothing.

Push pins come in a variety of colors and can tap into your iPhoto library or camera.

But getting traces of birth control and other drugs out of your tap water isn't so easy.

Home carbonation machine, to turn tap water into sparkling water or soda.

Tap sharply on the bottom and sides to loosen the root ball.

First, you need to tap the arrow-in-a-box icon, the one usually used for sharing things.

Other universities have worked to tap other state and federal funds.

Water has to be obtained from the pump, but telecommunications are on tap.

Rainwater does not contain the same additives found in tap water.

For them, it's using tap water and swapping out incandescent light bulbs for florescent.

Sprinkle sanding sugar over the still-wet piping, then tilt and tap cookie to remove excess.

When you tap the screen, it seems to zoom down and hit stuff.

State officials had given the college permission to tap state funds to give raises only to faculty members.

Yet provincial governments are also pushing to tap the region's rich resources.

The water flowed into drains surrounding the tap and froze, essentially wasted.

Becoming aware of your sleeping self could relieve anxiety or tap the creative unconscious.

With a hammer or stick, tap along the edge band to release air bubbles.

You'll notice two things after you tap the new icon to launch the app.

Law school seems to me to tap into many of the skills that would be valued by history programs.

But when the tap ran freely, water was squandered, and-inevitably-stopped.

Icelanders tap into the natural hot water for more than soaking.

In some areas, people are already complaining about a deterioration in the quality of normally drinkable tap water.

Here's a quick way to tap those patriotic colors with contemporary style.

Or, if you're coming up from behind him in a room, tap him on the back while walking around.

It could prove difficult and costly for an incoming government to turn off the tap in such cases.

Twirl the pop and gently tap the lollipop stick on the side of the pan to remove excess melt.

Law enforcement officials try to tap into that effort, for example.

To type a letter on the edge of a key, you tap it and then swipe in that direction.

GreenRoad's driver-monitoring device does not need to tap into the car's computer.

Learn how to tweak your toilet and tap to save water.

After registering at the main office and getting a user card, simply tap at any bike dock and ride away.

Tap the home bar and you end up in a home page that benefits from a drastic redesign.

In bad times speculators can tap those gains to cover losses elsewhere.

Cut the deck in the right place and you could tap open a.

To the mother who is preparing a babies bottle with tap water and hasn t heard of the disaster yet.

The narratives vary from the personal to the collective, but individual memories are often used to tap into universal themes.

Tap students' prior knowledge by asking them what they know about bats.

Free methane gas trapped under the hydrate layer is no easier to tap.

GreenRoad's driver-monitoring device does not need to tap into the car's innards.

Some plants have adapted to the arid climate by growing long roots that tap water from deep underground.

Now he hopes to tap the potential of his country's population by building them a network of science cities.

So the government has tried to tap some unorthodox sources of revenue.

Fill the bottle to the top with tap water and shake gently to combine the liquids.

Some in the alliance also hope to tap the money available to curb greenhouse-gas emissions.

The devices tap into the heightened sensitivity that sharks have to electrical fields.

Tap into travel tips for year-round adventure in these panoramic national parks.

In fact, nearly all vascular plants use fungi to tap into food collected by their neighbors.

Turn off the tap while brushing your teeth and washing the dishes.

Tap water has to be processed, which takes energy and costs money.

Main Entry:	appoint
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	assign responsibility; decide
Synonyms:	accredit, allot, assign, choose, command, commission, decree, delegate, designate, determine, direct, elect, enjoin, establish, finger, fix, install, name, nominate, ordain, select, set, settle, tap
Antonyms:	dismiss, fire, refuse, reject

Main Entry:	bar
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	establishment serving alcohol
Synonyms:	alehouse, barroom, beer garden, bistro, canteen, cocktail lounge, drinkery, inn, lounge, pub, public house, rathskeller, saloon, tap, taproom, tavern, watering hole

Main Entry:	beg
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	seek charity
Synonyms:	ask alms, benefit, bite, brace, bum, burn, buzz, cadge, call on, call upon, chisel, clamor for, dime up, ding, freeload, hit up, hustle, knock, live hand to mouth, mendicate, mooch, nick, nickel up, panhandle, pass the hat, put the bite on, put the touch on, score, scrounge, solicit charity, sponge on, sponge, tap*, touch, want
Antonyms:	give

* = informal/non-formal usage

Main Entry:	borrow
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	take for temporary use
Synonyms:	accept loan of, acquire, beg, bite, bum, cadge, chisel, give a note for, hire, hit up, lift, mooch, negotiate, obtain, pawn, pledge, raise money, rent, run into debt, scrounge, see one's uncle, soak, sponge, take on loan, tap, touch, use temporarily
Antonyms:	give, lend, pay, return

Main Entry:	broach
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	open, pierce
Synonyms:	begin, crack, decant, draw off, puncture, start, tap, uncork
Antonyms:	close, close up

Main Entry:	brush
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	fight
Synonyms:	clash, conflict, confrontation, encounter, engagement, fracas, rub, run-in, scrap, set-to, skirmish, tap, touch, tussle

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