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taps

/taps/US // tæps //UK // (tæps) //

水龙头,龙头,敲击声,敲击

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    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.

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Examples

  • 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.