The difference between Bang and Tap

When used as nouns, bang means a sudden percussive noise, whereas tap means a tapering cylindrical pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask.

When used as verbs, bang means to make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something, whereas tap means to furnish with taps.

Bang is also interjection with the meaning: a sudden percussive sound.

Bang is also adverb with the meaning: right, directly.

check bellow for the other definitions of Bang and Tap

  1. Bang as a noun:

    A sudden percussive noise.

    Examples:

    "When he struck it with a hammer, there was a loud bang."

  2. Bang as a noun:

    A strike upon an object causing such a noise.

  3. Bang as a noun:

    An explosion.

  4. Bang as a noun (US, especially plural):

    A fringe of hair cut across the forehead.

    Examples:

    "Tiffany has long hair and bangs."

  5. Bang as a noun (US):

    The symbol , known as an exclamation point.

    Examples:

    "An [[e-mail]] address with an ! is called a [[bang path bang path]]."

  6. Bang as a noun (mathematics):

    A factorial, in mathematics, because the factorial of n is often written as n!

  7. Bang as a noun (vulgar, slang):

    An act of sexual intercourse.

  8. Bang as a noun:

    An offbeat figure typical of reggae songs and played on guitar and piano.

  9. Bang as a noun (slang, mining):

    An explosive product.

    Examples:

    "Load the bang into the hole."

  10. Bang as a noun (slang, US, Boston area):

    An abrupt left turn.

  1. Bang as a verb (intransitive):

    To make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something.

    Examples:

    "The fireworks banged away all through the night."

    "Stop banging on the door. I heard you the first time!"

    "My head was banging after drinking all night at the concert."

  2. Bang as a verb (ambitransitive):

    To hit hard.

    Examples:

    "He banged the door shut."

    "David and Mary banged into each other."

  3. Bang as a verb (slang, ambitransitive, vulgar):

    To engage in sexual intercourse.

    Examples:

    "We can hear the couple banging upstairs."

  4. Bang as a verb (with "in"):

    To hammer or to hit anything hard.

    Examples:

    "Hold the picture while I bang in this nail."

  5. Bang as a verb (transitive):

    To cut squarely across, as the tail of a horse, or a person's forelock; to cut (the hair).

  1. Bang as an adverb:

    Right, directly.

    Examples:

    "The passenger door was bang against the garage wall."

  2. Bang as an adverb:

    Precisely.

    Examples:

    "He arrived bang on time."

  3. Bang as an adverb:

    With a sudden impact.

    Examples:

    "Distracted, he ran bang into the opening door."

  1. Bang as a noun:

  1. Tap as a noun:

    A tapering cylindrical pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask; a spigot.

  2. Tap as a noun:

    A device used to dispense liquids.

    Examples:

    "We don't have bottled water; you'll have to get it from the tap."

  3. Tap as a noun:

    Liquor drawn through a tap; hence, a certain kind or quality of liquor.

    Examples:

    "a liquor of the same tap"

  4. Tap as a noun:

    A place where liquor is drawn for drinking; a taproom; a bar.

  5. Tap as a noun (mechanics):

    A device used to cut an internal screw thread. (External screw threads are cut with a die.)

    Examples:

    "We drilled a hole and then cut the threads with the proper tap to match the valve's thread."

  6. Tap as a noun:

    A connection made to an electrical or fluid conductor without breaking it.

    Examples:

    "The system was barely keeping pressure due to all of the ill-advised taps along its length."

  7. Tap as a noun:

    An interception of communication by authority.

  8. Tap as a noun:

    A device used to listen in secretly on telephone calls.

  9. Tap as a noun (medicine, informal):

    A procedure that removes fluid from a body cavity; paracentesis.

    Examples:

    "abdominal tap'', ''pleural tap'', ''spinal tap"

  1. Tap as a verb:

    To furnish with taps.

    Examples:

    "If we tap the maple trees, we can get maple syrup!"

  2. Tap as a verb:

    To draw off liquid from a vessel.

    Examples:

    "He tapped a new barrel of beer."

  3. Tap as a verb:

    To deplete, especially of a liquid via a tap; to tap out.

  4. Tap as a verb:

    To exploit.

    Examples:

    "Businesses are trying to tap the youth market."

  5. Tap as a verb:

    To place a listening or recording device on a telephone or wired connection.

    Examples:

    "They can't tap the phone without a [[warrant]]."

  6. Tap as a verb:

    To intercept a communication without authority.

    Examples:

    "He was known to tap [[cable television]]"

  7. Tap as a verb (mechanical):

    To cut an internal screw thread.

    Examples:

    "Tap an M3 thread all the way through the hole."

  8. Tap as a verb (card games, board games):

    To turn or flip a card or playing piece to remind players that it has already been used that turn (by analogy to "tapping," in the sense of drawing on to the point of temporary exhaustion, the resources or abilities represented by the card).

  9. Tap as a verb (informal):

    To cadge, borrow or beg.

    Examples:

    "I tried to tap a cigarette off him, but he wouldn't give me one."

  10. Tap as a verb (medicine, informal):

    To drain off fluid by paracentesis.

  1. Tap as a verb:

    To strike lightly.

  2. Tap as a verb:

    To touch one's finger, foot, or other body parts on a surface (usually) repeatedly.

    Examples:

    "He was so [[nervous]] he began to tap his fingers on the [[table]]."

    "She tapped her companion on the back to indicate that she was ready to go."

    "Lydia tapped Jim on the shoulder to get his attention."

  3. Tap as a verb:

    To make a sharp noise.

    Examples:

    "The [[tree]], [[sway]]ing in the [[breeze]], began to tap on the [[window]] [[pane]]."

  4. Tap as a verb:

    To designate for some duty or for membership, as in 'a tap on the shoulder'.

  5. Tap as a verb (slang, vulgar, transitive):

    To have sexual intercourse with.

    Examples:

    "I would tap that hot girl over there."

    "I'd tap that."

  6. Tap as a verb (combat sports):

    To submit to an opponent by tapping one's hand repeatedly.

  7. Tap as a verb (combat sports, transitive):

    To force (an opponent) to submit.

  8. Tap as a verb:

    To put a new sole or heel on.

    Examples:

    "to tap shoes"

  1. Tap as a noun:

    A gentle or slight blow; a light rap; a pat.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Addison"

    "When Steve felt a tap on his shoulder, he turned around."

  2. Tap as a noun:

    tap dance

  3. Tap as a noun (computing):

    The act of touching a touch screen.

  4. Tap as a noun:

    A piece of leather fastened upon the bottom of a boot or shoe in repairing or renewing the sole or heel; a heeltap.

  5. Tap as a noun (military):

    A signal, by drum or trumpet, for extinguishing all lights in soldiers' quarters and retiring to bed; usually given about a quarter of an hour after tattoo.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek 1881, Thomas Wilhelm, "A Military Dictionary and Gazetteer"

  6. Tap as a noun (phonetics):

    A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound [ɾ] in the standard American English pronunciation of body.

    Examples:

    "synonyms: flap"

  1. Tap as a noun:

    An Indian malarial fever.

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