tapping

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æpɪŋ

Noun

tapping (plural tappings)

1. An act of making a light hit or strike against something.
   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 20

     As he was speaking there was a soft tapping at the door. I went over and opened it […]

   • 2009 June 26, Alastair Macaulay, “Leading the Audience Into Flamenco’s Heart”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     She has rapid and powerful footwork, but she doesn’t wow you with any special trills or woodpecker tappings.

2. (music) A guitar technique in which the strings are tapped against the fingerboard
3. The process by which a resource is tapped or exploited.
   • 1938, Paul Burke Jacobs, ‎Harry Paul Newton, Motor Fuels from Farm Products (page 99)

     Competitive tappings of a common oil pool can lead only to waste and overproduction, unless rigidly regulated […]

Verb

tapping

1. present participle of tap