The difference between Hit and Tap
When used as nouns, hit means a blow, whereas tap means a tapering cylindrical pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask.
When used as verbs, hit means to administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile, whereas tap means to furnish with taps.
Hit is also pronoun with the meaning: ..
Hit is also adjective with the meaning: very successful.
check bellow for the other definitions of Hit and Tap
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Hit as a verb (physical):
To strike. To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile. To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly. To strike against something. To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party. To attack, especially amphibiously.
Examples:
"One boy hit the other."
"The ball hit the fence."
"'Hit him tonight and throw the body in the river."
"If intelligence had been what it should have been, I don't think we'd ever have hit that island."
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Hit as a verb (transitive, colloquial):
To briefly visit.
Examples:
"We hit the grocery store on the way to the park."
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Hit as a verb (transitive, informal):
To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
Examples:
"You'll hit some nasty thunderstorms if you descend nowrap too late.  nowrap We hit a lot of traffic coming back from the movies."
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Hit as a verb:
To attain, to achieve. To reach or achieve. To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck. To guess; to light upon or discover.
Examples:
"I hit the jackpot.  The movie hits theaters nowrap in December.  nowrap The temperature could hit 110°F tomorrow.  nowrap We hit Detroit at one in the morning but kept driving through the night."
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Hit as a verb (transitive):
To affect negatively.
Examples:
"The economy was hit by a recession.  nowrap The hurricane hit his fishing business hard."
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Hit as a verb (games):
To make a play. In blackjack, to deal a card to. To come up to bat. To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
Examples:
"'Hit me."
"Jones hit for the pitcher."
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Hit as a verb (transitive, computing, programming):
To use; to connect to.
Examples:
"The external web servers hit DBSRV7, but the internal web server hits DBSRV3."
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Hit as a verb (transitive, US, slang):
To have sex with.
Examples:
"I'd hit that."
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Hit as a verb (transitive, US, slang):
To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
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Hit as a noun:
A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
Examples:
"The hit was very slight."
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Hit as a noun:
Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim.
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Hit as a noun:
An attack on a location, person or people. In the game of Battleship, a correct guess at where one's opponent ship is.
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Hit as a noun (computing, Internet):
The result of a search of a computer system or of a search engine
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Hit as a noun (Internet):
A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
Examples:
"My site received twice as many hits after being listed in a [[search engine]]."
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Hit as a noun:
An approximately correct answer in a test set.
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Hit as a noun (baseball):
The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder's choice.
Examples:
"The catcher got a hit to lead off the fifth."
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Hit as a noun (colloquial):
A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
Examples:
"Where am I going to get my next hit?"
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Hit as a noun:
A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
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Hit as a noun (dated):
A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.
Examples:
"a happy hit"
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Hit as a noun (backgammon):
A move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point.
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Hit as a noun (backgammon):
A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
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Hit as an adjective:
Very successful.
Examples:
"The band played their hit song to the delight of the fans."
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Hit as a pronoun (dialectal):
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Tap as a noun:
A tapering cylindrical pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask; a spigot.
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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."
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Tap as a noun:
Liquor drawn through a tap; hence, a certain kind or quality of liquor.
Examples:
"a liquor of the same tap"
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Tap as a noun:
A place where liquor is drawn for drinking; a taproom; a bar.
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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."
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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."
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Tap as a noun:
An interception of communication by authority.
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Tap as a noun:
A device used to listen in secretly on telephone calls.
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Tap as a noun (medicine, informal):
A procedure that removes fluid from a body cavity; paracentesis.
Examples:
"abdominal tap'', ''pleural tap'', ''spinal tap"
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Tap as a verb:
To furnish with taps.
Examples:
"If we tap the maple trees, we can get maple syrup!"
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Tap as a verb:
To draw off liquid from a vessel.
Examples:
"He tapped a new barrel of beer."
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Tap as a verb:
To deplete, especially of a liquid via a tap; to tap out.
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Tap as a verb:
To exploit.
Examples:
"Businesses are trying to tap the youth market."
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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]]."
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Tap as a verb:
To intercept a communication without authority.
Examples:
"He was known to tap [[cable television]]"
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Tap as a verb (mechanical):
To cut an internal screw thread.
Examples:
"Tap an M3 thread all the way through the hole."
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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).
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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."
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Tap as a verb (medicine, informal):
To drain off fluid by paracentesis.
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Tap as a verb:
To strike lightly.
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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."
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Tap as a verb:
To make a sharp noise.
Examples:
"The [[tree]], [[sway]]ing in the [[breeze]], began to tap on the [[window]] [[pane]]."
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Tap as a verb:
To designate for some duty or for membership, as in 'a tap on the shoulder'.
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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."
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Tap as a verb (combat sports):
To submit to an opponent by tapping one's hand repeatedly.
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Tap as a verb (combat sports, transitive):
To force (an opponent) to submit.
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Tap as a verb:
To put a new sole or heel on.
Examples:
"to tap shoes"
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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."
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Tap as a noun:
tap dance
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Tap as a noun (computing):
The act of touching a touch screen.
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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.
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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"
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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"
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Tap as a noun:
An Indian malarial fever.