Rap vs. Tap — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Rap and Tap
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Rap
Strike (a hard surface) with a series of rapid audible blows, especially in order to attract attention
He stood up and rapped the table
She rapped on the window
Tap
A device by which a flow of liquid or gas from a pipe or container can be controlled
She turned the cold tap on
The air-supply tap
Rap
Talk or chat in an easy and familiar manner
We could be here all night rapping about spiritualism
Tap
A device connected to a telephone for listening secretly to someone's conversations
Those taps produced hundreds of hours of recordings
Rap
Perform rap music
He raps under the name of Mr T
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Tap
An instrument for cutting a threaded hole in a material.
Rap
A quick, sharp knock or blow
There was a confident rap at the door
Tap
A taproom.
Rap
A type of popular music of US black origin in which words are recited rapidly and rhythmically over an instrumental backing
Rap artists
The label specializes in rap and modern soul
Tap
A quick light blow, or the sound of such a blow
There was a sharp tap at the door
Rap
A lengthy or impromptu conversation
Dropping in after work for a rap over a beer
Tap
Tap dancing
A rhythm much used in tap
Rap
A criminal charge, especially of a specified kind
He's just been acquitted on a murder rap
Tap
A bugle call for lights to be put out in army quarters
The bugler played taps
Rap
A person's reputation, typically a bad one
Why should drag queens get a bad rap?
Tap
Draw liquid through the tap or spout of (a cask, barrel, or other container)
Several barrels had been tapped to celebrate old victories
Rap
The smallest amount (used for emphasis)
He doesn't care a rap whether it's true or not
Tap
Exploit or draw a supply from (a resource)
Clients from industry seeking to tap Edinburgh's resources of expertise
These magazines have tapped into a target market of consumers
Rap
To hit sharply and swiftly; strike
Rapped the table with his fist.
Tap
Connect a device to (a telephone) so that conversation can be listened to secretly
The telephones were tapped by the state security police
Rap
To utter sharply
Rap out a complaint.
Tap
Cut a thread in (something) to accept a screw
On most vices, the metal jaws are drilled and tapped to accept screws
Rap
To criticize or blame.
Tap
Strike with a quick light blow or blows
One of my staff tapped me on the shoulder
Rap
To strike a quick light blow
Rapped on the door.
Tap
Approach (a sports player) unlawfully with a view to signing them to another club while they are still under contract with their current one.
Rap
(Slang) To discuss something freely and at length.
Tap
Designate or select (someone) for a task or honour, especially membership of an organization or committee
He had been tapped earlier to serve in Costa Rica
Rap
To perform rap music.
Tap
To strike gently with a light blow or blows
I tapped you on the shoulder to get your attention.
Rap
To perform as rap music
Lyrics that were rapped.
Rapped the chorus of the song.
Tap
To give a light rap with
Tap a pencil.
Rap
A quick light blow or knock.
Tap
To produce with a succession of light blows
Tap out a rhythm.
Rap
A knocking or tapping sound.
Tap
To select, as for membership in an organization; designate.
Rap
A reprimand.
Tap
To repair (shoe heels or toes) by applying a thin layer of leather or a substitute material.
Rap
A sentence to serve time in prison.
Tap
To attach metal plates to (shoe toes or heels).
Rap
(Slang) A negative quality or characteristic associated with a person or an object.
Tap
To deliver a gentle, light blow or blows.
Rap
The least bit
I don't give a rap about office politics. I don't care a rap what you do.
Tap
To walk making light clicks.
Rap
(Slang) A talk, conversation, or discussion.
Tap
To tap-dance.
Rap
A form of popular music developed especially in African American urban communities and characterized by spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics with a strong rhythmic accompaniment.
Tap
To furnish with a spigot or tap.
Rap
A composition or performance of such music.
Tap
To pierce in order to draw off liquid
Tap a maple tree.
Rap
(countable) A sharp blow with something hard.
Tap
To draw (liquid) from a vessel or container
Tap a new keg of beer.
Rap
(slang) Blame for something.
You can't act irresponsibly and then expect me to take the rap.
Tap
(Medicine) To withdraw fluid from (a body cavity).
Rap
(informal) A casual talk.
Tap
To make a physical connection with or open outlets from
Tap a water main.
Rap
Rap music.
Tap
To wiretap (a telephone or communications channel).
Rap
A song, verse, or instance of singing in the style of rap music.
Tap
To establish an electric connection in (a power line), as to divert current secretly.
Rap
An appraisal.
Tap
To establish access to or a connection with
Tapped a new market for inexpensive books.
Rap
A positive appraisal; a recommendation.
Tap
To take advantage of; make use of
Tapped voter anger to win the election.
Rap
A lea or skein of yarn that forms the standard length taken from the reel, 80 yards of worsted or 120 yards of silk or cotton.
Tap
To cut screw threads in (a collar, socket, or other fitting).
Rap
(historical) Any of the tokens that passed current for a halfpenny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value.
Tap
(Informal) To ask (a person) for money.
Rap
A whit; a jot.
I don't care a rap.
That's not worth a rap.
Tap
A gentle blow.
Rap
Acronym of record of arrest and prosecution
Tap
The sound made by such a blow.
Rap
A charge, whether or not it results in a conviction.
Tap
A thin layer of leather or a substitute applied to a worn-down shoe heel or toe.
Rap
(intransitive) To strike something sharply with one's knuckles; knock.
Tap
A metal plate attached to the toe or heel of a shoe, as for tap-dancing.
Rap
To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.
Tap
Tap dance.
Rap
(metalworking) To free (a pattern) in a mould by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.
Tap
(Linguistics) See flap.
Rap
To utter quickly and sharply.
The sergeant rapped out a word of command to the troops.
Tap
A valve and spout used to regulate delivery of a fluid at the end of a pipe.
Rap
(ambitransitive) To speak (lyrics) in the style of rap music.
He started to rap after listening to Tupac.
He rapped a song to his girlfriend.
Tap
A plug for a bunghole; a spigot.
Rap
To talk casually; to engage in conversation.
Tap
Liquor drawn from a spigot.
Rap
(transitive) To seize and carry off.
Tap
Liquor of a particular brew, cask, or quality.
Rap
(transitive) To transport out of oneself; to affect with rapture.
Tap
(Medicine) The removal of fluid from a body cavity
A spinal tap.
Rap
A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.
Tap
A tool for cutting an internal screw thread.
Rap
A quick, smart blow; a knock.
Tap
A makeshift terminal in an electric circuit.
Rap
A popular name for any of the tokens that passed current for a half-penny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value.
Many counterfeits passed about under the name of raps.
Tie it [her money] up so tight that you can't touch a rap, save with her consent.
Tap
A wiretap.
Rap
Conversation; also, rapping.
Tap
A tapering cylindrical pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask.
Rap
A type of rhythmic talking, often with accompanying rhythm instruments; rap music.
Tap
A device used to dispense liquids.
We don't have bottled water; you'll have to get it from the tap.
Rap
To strike with a quick, sharp blow; to knock; as, to rap on the door.
Tap
Liquor drawn through a tap; hence, a certain kind or quality of liquor.
A liquor of the same tap
Rap
To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.
With one great peal they rap the door.
Tap
A place where liquor is drawn for drinking.
Rap
To free (a pattern) in a mold by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.
Tap
(mechanics) A device used to cut an internal screw thread. (External screw threads are cut with a die.)
We drilled a hole and then cut the threads with the proper tap to match the valve's thread.
Rap
To snatch away; to seize and hurry off.
And through the Greeks and Ilians they raptThe whirring chariot.
From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund Bacon, to Redgrove.
Tap
A connection made to an electrical or fluid conductor without breaking it.
The system was barely keeping pressure due to all of the ill-advised taps along its length.
Rap
To hasten.
Tap
An interception of communication by authority.
Rap
To seize and bear away, as the mind or thoughts; to transport out of one's self; to affect with ecstasy or rapture; as, rapt into admiration.
I'm rapt with joy to see my Marcia's tears.
Rapt into future times, the bard begun.
Tap
A device used to listen in secretly on telephone calls.
Rap
To exchange; to truck.
Tap
A procedure that removes fluid from a body cavity.
Abdominal tap
Pleural tap
Spinal tap
Rap
To engage in a discussion, converse.
Tap
(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
Rap
To perform a type of rhythmic talking, often with accompanying rhythm instruments. It is considered by some as a type of music; see rap music.
All they could rap and rend and pilfer.
A judge who rapped out a great oath.
Tap
A gentle or slight blow; a light rap; a pat.
When Steve felt a tap on his shoulder, he turned around.
Rap
A reproach for some lapse or misdeed;
He took the blame for it
It was a bum rap
Tap
(dance) tap dance
Rap
A gentle blow
Tap
The act of touching a touch screen.
Rap
The sound made by a gentle blow
Tap
A piece of leather fastened upon the bottom of a boot or shoe in repairing or renewing the sole or heel.
Rap
Voluble conversation
Tap
(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.
Rap
Genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged
Tap
(phonetics) A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound [
Rap
The act of hitting vigorously;
He gave the table a whack
Tap
An Indian malarial fever.
Rap
Strike sharply;
Rap him on the knuckles
Tap
To furnish with taps.
If we tap the maple trees, we can get maple syrup!
Rap
Make light, repeated taps on a surface;
He was tapping his fingers on the table impatiently
Tap
To draw off liquid from a vessel.
He tapped a new barrel of beer.
Rap
Perform rap music
Tap
To deplete, especially of a liquid via a tap; to tap out.
Rap
Talk volubly
Tap
To exploit.
Businesses are trying to tap the youth market.
Tap
To place a listening or recording device on a telephone or wired connection.
They can't tap the phone without a warrant.
Tap
To intercept a communication without authority.
He was known to tap cable television.
Tap
(mechanical) To cut an internal screw thread.
Tap an M3 thread all the way through the hole.
Tap
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).
Tap
(informal) To cadge, borrow or beg.
I tried to tap a cigarette off him, but he wouldn't give me one.
Tap
To drain off fluid by paracentesis.
Tap
To advance someone for a post or job, or for membership of a club.
Trump interviewed Mueller for FBI job day before he was tapped for special counsel.
Tap
To strike lightly.
She tapped him on the shoulder to get his attention.
Tap
To touch one's finger, foot, or other body parts on a surface (usually) repeatedly.
He was so nervous he began to tap his fingers on the table.
She tapped her companion on the back to indicate that she was ready to go.
Lydia tapped Jim on the shoulder to get his attention.
Tap
To make a sharp noise.
The tree, swaying in the breeze, began to tap on the window pane.
Tap
(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.
Tap
To designate for some duty or for membership, as in 'a tap on the shoulder'.
Tap
To have sexual intercourse with.
I would tap that hot girl over there.
I'd tap that.
Tap
(combat sports) To submit to an opponent by tapping one's hand repeatedly.
Tap
To force (an opponent) to submit.
Tap
To put a new sole or heel on.
To tap shoes
Tap
To strike with a slight or gentle blow; to touch gently; to rap lightly; to pat; as, to tap one with the hand or a cane.
Tap
To put a new sole or heel on; as, to tap shoes.
Tap
To strike a gentle blow.
Tap
To pierce so as to let out, or draw off, a fluid; as, to tap a cask, a tree, a tumor, a keg of beer, etc.
Tap
Hence, to draw resources from (a reservoir) in any analogous way; as, to tap someone's knowledge of the Unix system; to tap the treasury.
Tap
To draw, or cause to flow, by piercing.
He has been tapping his liquors.
Tap
To form an internal screw in (anything) by means of a tool called a tap; as, to tap a nut, a pipe, or tubing.
Tap
To connect a listening device to (a telephone or telegraph line) secretly, for the purpose of hearing private conversations; also, to obtain or record (information) by tapping; - a technique used by law enforcement agencies investigating suspected criminals. In the United States it is illegal without a court order permitting it.
Tap
A gentle or slight blow; a light rap; a pat.
Tap
A piece of leather fastened upon the bottom of a boot or shoe in repairing or renewing the sole or heel.
Tap
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.
Tap
A hole or pipe through which liquor is drawn.
Tap
A plug or spile for stopping a hole pierced in a cask, or the like; a faucet.
Tap
Liquor drawn through a tap; hence, a certain kind or quality of liquor; as, a liquor of the same tap.
Tap
A place where liquor is drawn for drinking; a taproom; a bar.
Tap
A tool for forming an internal screw, as in a nut, consisting of a hardened steel male screw grooved longitudinally so as to have cutting edges.
Tap
The sound made by a gentle blow
Tap
A faucet for drawing water from a pipe or cask
Tap
A gentle blow
Tap
A small metal plate that attaches to the toe or heel of a shoe (as in tap dancing)
Tap
A tool for cutting female (internal) screw threads
Tap
A plug for a bunghole in a cask
Tap
The act of tapping a telephone or telegraph line to get information
Tap
A light touch or stroke
Tap
Cut a female screw thread with a tap
Tap
Draw from or dip into to get something;
Tap one's memory
Tap a source of money
Tap
Strike lightly;
He tapped me on the shoulder
Tap
Draw from; make good use of;
We must exploit the resources we are given wisely
Tap
Tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information;
The FBI was tapping the phone line of the suspected spy
Is this hotel room bugged?
Tap
Furnish with a tap or spout, so as to be able to draw liquid from it;
Tap a cask of wine
Tap
Make light, repeated taps on a surface;
He was tapping his fingers on the table impatiently
Tap
Walk with a tapping sound
Tap
Dance and make rhythmic clicking sounds by means of metal plates nailed to the sole of the dance shoes;
Glover tapdances better than anybody
Tap
Draw (liquor) from a tap;
Tap beer in a bar
Tap
Pierce in order to draw a liquid from;
Tap a maple tree for its syrup
Tap a keg of beer
Tap
Make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently;
Henry IV solicited the Pope for a divorce
My neighbor keeps soliciting money for different charities
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