To neglect.
Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.)
To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent.
To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.
To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.
To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert; to disappoint one's expectations.
To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.
To be unsuccessful.
Of a machine, etc.: to cease to operate correctly.
Unsuccessful; inadequate; unacceptable in some way.
A failure, especially of a financial transaction (a termination of an action).
A failure (condition of being unsuccessful).
A failing grade in an academic examination.
Poor quality; substandard workmanship.
A failure (something incapable of success).
A piece of turf cut from grassland.
To strike lightly.
To operate an electronic device (e.g. a mobile phone) by tapping a specific place on its (capacitive or other) touch screen.
To draw off liquid from a vessel.
To drain off fluid by paracentesis.
To have sexual intercourse with.
To put a new sole or heel on.
To place a listening or recording device on a telephone or wired connection.
To designate for some duty or for membership, as in 'a tap on the shoulder'.
To touch one's finger, foot, or other body parts on a surface (usually) repeatedly.
To deplete, especially of a liquid via a tap; to tap out.
To furnish with taps.
To exploit.
To cadge, borrow or beg.
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).
To submit to an opponent by tapping one's hand repeatedly.
To advance someone for a post or job, or for membership of a club.
To cut an internal screw thread.
To make a sharp noise.
To intercept a communication without authority.
To force (an opponent) to submit.
A device used to dispense liquids.
A device used to listen in secretly on telephone calls.
A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound [ɾ] in the standard American English pronunciation of body.
An interception of communication by authority.
A tapering cylindrical pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask.
A device used to cut an internal screw thread. (External screw threads are cut with a die.)
The situation where a borrowing government authority issues bonds over a period of time, usually at a fixed price, with volumes sold on a particular day dependent on market conditions.
A gentle or slight blow; a light rap; a pat.
A piece of leather fastened upon the bottom of a boot or shoe in repairing or renewing the sole or heel.
A place where liquor is drawn for drinking.
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.
Liquor drawn through a tap; hence, a certain kind or quality of liquor.
A procedure that removes fluid from a body cavity.
An Indian malarial fever.
The act of touching a touch screen.
A connection made to an electrical or fluid conductor without breaking it.