taps 的定义
Military.
- a signal by bugle or drum, sounded at night as an order to extinguish all lights, and sometimes performed as a postlude to a military funeral.
taps 近义词
faucet
hit lightly
pierce to drain
更多taps例句
- Twin buglers played “Taps” and three police helicopters flew overhead in the missing-man formation.
- Tosi has been using cereal milk as a flavor ever since 2007, and she says it taps into a universal “memory sensor.”
- More than 15,000 households have had their taps turned off for being past due.
- Likely, The Woodman taps the facilities of a much larger, more-specialized operation like Loyalsock Firewood in Montoursville.
- Those phone taps suggested the pair may have co-opted a judge for insider information.
- No notice being taken of the taps, the unseen visitor, after a short lapse, ventured to open the door and peep in.
- If a supply was required during the day it could be given by a pipe with two taps.
- The candle flickered on until "taps," when the guards, with unconscious irony shouted, "Lights out!"
- There was a hubbub around the fire that kept everybody from paying the least attention to "taps."
- Fill the vessels with water and lay the corks with their rods upon its surface, and set both taps running together.