tourne-à-gauche

Phonetic: "/tæp/"

Part Of Speech: noun

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

Definition: A device used to dispense liquids.

Example: We don't have bottled water; you'll have to get it from the tap.

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

Example: a liquor of the same tap

Definition: A place where liquor is drawn for drinking.

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

Example: We drilled a hole and then cut the threads with the proper tap to match the valve's thread.

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

Example: The system was barely keeping pressure due to all of the ill-advised taps along its length.

Definition: An interception of communication by authority.

Definition: A device used to listen in secretly on telephone calls.

Definition: A procedure that removes fluid from a body cavity.

Example: abdominal tap

Phonetic: "/tæp/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To furnish with taps.

Example: If we tap the maple trees, we can get maple syrup!

Definition: To draw off liquid from a vessel.

Example: He tapped a new barrel of beer.

Definition: To deplete, especially of a liquid via a tap; to tap out.

Definition: To exploit.

Example: Businesses are trying to tap the youth market.

Definition: To place a listening or recording device on a telephone or wired connection.

Example: They can't tap the phone without a warrant.

Definition: To intercept a communication without authority.

Example: He was known to tap cable television.

Definition: To cut an internal screw thread.

Example: Tap an M3 thread all the way through the hole.

Definition: 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).

Definition: To cadge, borrow or beg.

Example: I tried to tap a cigarette off him, but he wouldn't give me one.

Definition: To drain off fluid by paracentesis.

Definition: To advance someone for a post or job, or for membership of a club.

Example: Trump interviewed Mueller for FBI job day before he was tapped for special counsel.

Phonetic: "/ɹɛnt͡ʃɪs/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A movement that twists or pulls violently; a tug.

Definition: An injury caused by a violent twisting or pulling of a limb; strain, sprain.

Definition: A trick or artifice.

Definition: Deceit; guile; treachery.

Definition: A turn at an acute angle.

Definition: A winch or windlass.

Definition: A screw.

Definition: A distorting change from the original meaning.

Definition: A hand tool for making rotational adjustments, such as fitting nuts and bolts, or fitting pipes; a spanner.

Definition: An adjustable spanner used by plumbers.

Definition: A violent emotional change caused by separation.

Definition: In screw theory, a screw assembled from force and torque vectors arising from application of Newton's laws to a rigid body.

Definition: Means; contrivance

Definition: In coursing, the act of bringing the hare round at less than a right angle, worth half a point in the recognised code of points for judging.

Phonetic: "/ɹɛnt͡ʃɪs/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To violently move in a turn or writhe.

Definition: To pull or twist violently.

Example: With a surge of adrenaline, she wrenched the car door off and pulled out the injured man.

Definition: To turn aside or deflect.

Definition: To slander.

Definition: To tighten with or as if with a winch.

Definition: To injure (a joint) by pulling or twisting.

Example: Be careful not to wrench your ankle walking along those loose stones!

Definition: To distort from the original meaning.

Definition: To thrust a weapon in a twisting motion.

Definition: To disarm an opponent by whirling his or her blade away.

Definition: To rack with pain.

Definition: To deprive by means of a violent pull or twist.

Definition: To use the tool known as a wrench.

Example: The plumber wrenched the pipes until they came loose.