Thesaurus / tapping
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synonyms for tapping
See also synonyms for: tappings
- beat
- blow
- clack
- click
- clicking
- flash
- instant
- minute
- moment
- pulsation
- pulse
- rap
- second
- shake
- tap
- throb
- ticktock
- twinkling
- wink
- metallic sound
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Going forward, Wignall wants to understand the tapping in greater detail, determining how many taps are sufficient to pacify a spider and the number of spider species that the bugs are manipulating.
ASSASSIN BUGS TAP SPIDERS TO DISTRACT THEM BEFORE A LETHAL STRIKEJAKE BUEHLEROCTOBER 28, 2021SCIENCE NEWS“It struck us early on that tapping prey was a really strange thing to do,” says Wignall, of Massey University in Albany, New Zealand.
ASSASSIN BUGS TAP SPIDERS TO DISTRACT THEM BEFORE A LETHAL STRIKEJAKE BUEHLEROCTOBER 28, 2021SCIENCE NEWSThe student, Vera Zhou, didn’t notice the tapping at first because she was listening to music through her earbuds as she weaved through the crowd.
THE COVID TECH THAT IS INTIMATELY TIED TO CHINA’S SURVEILLANCE STATEDARREN BYLEROCTOBER 11, 2021MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWIt had a deep potential for performance that I didn’t come close to tapping—and which you probably can’t, or at least shouldn’t, experience off the controlled environment of a track.
ANYONE CAN DRIVE A SUPERCAR, BUT TRULY TAPPING ITS POTENTIAL IS ANOTHER MATTERROB VERGERJULY 28, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCETapping the trees for tuba is dangerous work, but Alila, you know, loves danger.
ALILA, OUR LITTLE PHILIPPINE COUSINMARY HAZELTON WADESeton, smoking one of the inevitable cheroots, watched him, tapping his teeth with the rim of his eyeglass.
DOPESAX ROHMERShe moved now deliberately to Um's fusuma, tapping lightly on the lacquered frame.
THE DRAGON PAINTERMARY MCNEIL FENOLLOSASome two hours after the tapping is done the flow entirely ceases and the tree must be tapped anew to secure a fresh flow.
THE WONDER BOOK OF KNOWLEDGEVARIOUSSo sure is she that she suggests hanging the cigar in the hall and tapping it to see how the war is going.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOL. 147, NOVEMBER 4, 1914VARIOUSThe birds were singing, black squirrels were jumping from bough to bough, and they could hear the tapping of the woodpecker.
MRS. FALCHION, COMPLETEGILBERT PARKERWORDS RELATED TO TAPPING
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