The difference between Strike and Tap

Strike as a verb (transitive, sometimes with [[out]] or [[through]]):

To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.

Strike as a verb (physical):

To have a sharp or sudden effect. To hit. To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast. To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows. To manufacture, as by stamping. To run upon a rock or bank; to be stranded; to run aground. To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes. Of a clock, to announce (an hour of the day), usually by one or more sounds. To sound by percussion, with blows, or as if with blows. To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke. To cause to ignite by friction.

Strike as a verb (transitive):

To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.

Strike as a verb (personal, social):

To have a sharp or severe effect. To punish; to afflict; to smite. To carry out a violent or illegal action. To act suddenly, especially in a violent or criminal way. To impinge upon. To stop working as a protest to achieve better working conditions. To impress, seem or appear (to). To create an impression. To score a goal. To steal money. To take forcibly or fraudulently. To make a sudden impression upon, as if by a blow; to affect with some strong emotion. To affect by a sudden impression or impulse. To borrow money from; to make a demand upon.

Strike as a verb:

To touch; to act by appulse.

Strike as a verb (transitive):

To take down, especially in the following contexts. To haul down or lower (a flag, mast, etc.) To capitulate; to signal a surrender by hauling down the colours. To dismantle and take away (a theater set; a tent; etc.).

Strike as a verb (intransitive):

To set off on a walk or trip.

Strike as a verb (intransitive):

To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.

Strike as a verb (dated):

To break forth; to commence suddenly; with into.

Strike as a verb (intransitive):

To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.

Strike as a verb:

To make and ratify.

Strike as a verb:

To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level of the top.

Strike as a verb (masonry):

To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.

Strike as a verb:

To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.

Strike as a verb:

To lade into a cooler, as a liquor.

Strike as a verb:

To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.

Strike as a verb (obsolete):

To advance; to cause to go forward; used only in the past participle.

Strike as a verb:

To balance (a ledger or account).

Strike as a noun (baseball):

A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when the ball goes in the strike zone, or hitting a foul ball that is not caught.

Strike as a noun (bowling):

The act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame.

Strike as a noun:

A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.

Strike as a noun:

A blow or application of physical force against something.

Strike as a noun (finance):

In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise the option.

Strike as a noun:

An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.

Strike as a noun (cricket):

The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.

Strike as a noun:

The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.

Strike as a noun (geology):

The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the Earth.

Strike as a noun:

An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle.

Strike as a noun (obsolete):

Fullness of measure; hence, excellence of quality.

Strike as a noun:

An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.

Strike as a noun (ironworking):

A puddler's stirrer.

Strike as a noun (obsolete):

The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by threat of injury; blackmail.

Strike as a noun:

The discovery of a source of something.

Strike as a noun:

A strike plate.

Tap as a noun:

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

Tap as a noun:

A device used to dispense liquids.

Tap as a noun:

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

Tap as a noun:

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

Tap as a noun (mechanics):

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

Tap as a noun:

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

Tap as a noun:

An interception of communication by authority.

Tap as a noun:

A device used to listen in secretly on telephone calls.

Tap as a noun (medicine, informal):

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

Tap as a verb:

To furnish with taps.

Tap as a verb:

To draw off liquid from a vessel.

Tap as a verb:

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

Tap as a verb:

To exploit.

Tap as a verb:

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

Tap as a verb:

To intercept a communication without authority.

Tap as a verb (mechanical):

To cut an internal screw thread.

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).

Tap as a verb (informal):

To cadge, borrow or beg.

Tap as a verb (medicine, informal):

To drain off fluid by paracentesis.

Tap as a verb:

To strike lightly.

Tap as a verb:

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

Tap as a verb:

To make a sharp noise.

Tap as a verb:

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

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

To have sexual intercourse with.

Tap as a verb (combat sports):

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

Tap as a verb (combat sports, transitive):

To force (an opponent) to submit.

Tap as a verb:

To put a new sole or heel on.

Tap as a noun:

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

Tap as a noun:

tap dance

Tap as a noun (computing):

The act of touching a touch screen.

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.

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.

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.

Tap as a noun:

An Indian malarial fever.