Tapping

Synonyms for "tapping" (33 found)

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Closest matches (7)

aspiration banging blasting bleeding bloodletting broaching bursting

Strong matches (10)

Noun(1 words)

clatter

cracking crashing cupping drafting drainage draining drawing emptying exploding

Related words (16)

explosive flapping knocking milking phlebotomy pipetting popping pumping rapping siphoning slapping slatting sucking suction tap venesection

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

6 relation types

More general

1 entries

sound

Related terms

7 entries

foot-tapping hot tapping self-tapping self-tapping screw tapping up tappingly toe-tapping

form of

1 entries

tap

has context

1 entries

music

is a

3 entries

hitting providing sound

related to

6 entries

fingerboard guitar hit strike string tap

Translations

4 translations across 2 languages.

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries

點弦 /点弦 noun (Translations)

Spanish

3 entries

golpeteo noun (Translations)
tabaleo noun (Translations)
tamborileo noun (Translations)

Sample sentences

14 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Someone is tapping at the door.

Source: tatoeba (40478)

Nowadays, however, calculators can be used freely in school examinations, and already in many schools the only sound to be heard during a math exam is the sound of children tapping on their calculators.

Source: tatoeba (53542)

Tom can't listen to music without tapping his foot.

Source: tatoeba (1095574)

I can't concentrate if you keep tapping me on the shoulder.

Source: tatoeba (1951420)

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.