What's the difference between tab and tap?

Tab


Definition:

  • (n.) The flap or latchet of a shoe fastened with a string or a buckle.
  • (n.) A tag. See Tag, 2.
  • (n.) A loop for pulling or lifting something.
  • (n.) A border of lace or other material, worn on the inner front edge of ladies' bonnets.
  • (n.) A loose pendent part of a lady's garment; esp., one of a series of pendent squares forming an edge or border.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) ADA activity in lymphocytes from peripheral blood was significantly increased after antigenic stimulation by TAB immunization.
  • (2) The emulsifier Tween 80 has been demonstrated to be an AR inducing component of vaccines and drugs (Tab.
  • (3) In the wake of the horrors of the second world war it was the proudest gift to a land fit for heroes, delivered at a time when the national debt made our current crisis look like an embarrassing bar tab.
  • (4) German intelligence services had also been keeping tabs on the rightwing radical scene that Zschäpe was a part of, but had lost track of her, along with Mundlos and Böhnhardt when they went underground.
  • (5) There is a reasonably good correlation between FHR deceleration areas and UApH (Tab.
  • (6) Scrolling tabs in the tab bar Tighter integration with Mac Mail allows emailing directly from Safari using the recently sent to contact list 6.34pm BST Craig Federighi demonstrates the "simple and more powerful" design.
  • (7) By ELISA wherein monoclonal antibodies specific for GPIIb (Tab) and specific for GPIIIa (AP3) were used to capture and hold antigens from a platelet lysate prepared under conditions that generate free GPIIb and GPIIIa, anti-Pena reacted with GPIIIa held by AP3 but not with GPIIb held by Tab.
  • (8) Instead hundreds of millions of pounds will be paid out to big energy companies to keep open old power stations that would have been open anyway, and to diesel farmers to use ultra-polluting generators, and it is families and businesses who will pick up the tab through their energy bills.” Dustin Benton, head of energy and resources at the Green Alliance thinktank, said: “Amber Rudd deserves praise for deciding to phase out coal, and it’s now clear that she needs to reform our outdated capacity market.
  • (9) The year season influenced significantly L, log SC, SH, ClL, gamma and MT-NK (Tab.
  • (10) In this latter group, however, those immunized with alcoholized TAB vaccine had higher antibody titres to fimbrial antigen than those immunized with heat-killed phenolized vaccine.
  • (11) Porous surfaced metal tabs were attached to a standard strain gauge.
  • (12) A first approach, based on the pattern of coefficients of correlation between maternal and paternal weight and height, and birth weight (Tab.
  • (13) At present, salmonellosis is quite common in large urban areas and is supported by person-to-person spread; more than 50% of the yearly isolates occurs in childhood Number of cases, their ages, sex distribution, and relative morbidity, have been calculated in Tab.
  • (14) Separation of bone marrow cells from anemic rats injected with TAB vaccine led to four populations corresponding to successive stages of erythroid cell maturation.
  • (15) Means testing it would be administratively more complicated but nevertheless in the present climate I can see no real reason why it remains a universal benefit.” The BBC faced the prospect of having to pick up the tab for free TV licences for over-75s in the 2010 negotiations around its future funding that saw the licence fee frozen until 2017 and the BBC take on a number of other funding responsibilities including the World Service and Welsh language channel, S4C.
  • (16) The average values of the different indicators and their variability are summarized in Tab.
  • (17) The bound enzyme conjugate is quantified by measuring the rate of increase in fluorescence in the reaction zone of the tab, then converting the rate to clinical units by comparison with a stored calibration curve.
  • (18) At saturation, 40,200 AP-3 molecules were bound per platelet, a value similar to that obtained for AP-2 or Tab.
  • (19) A double blind placebo-controlled trial in 30 patients with ICO was carried out to study the pharmacodynamic activity of a flavonoid, Daflon 500 mg (2 tabs daily for 6 weeks), which revealed a decrease in the degree of retention--initially high--of labelled albumin (p = 0.01).
  • (20) Fentanyl was given intravenously in fractional doses, (fig 1), during NLA, and other general anaesthesias, for operation and diagnostic examination ( exeption of cardiosurgery), in children and adolescents from two month-to nineteen years of age, (tab.

Tap


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To strike with a slight or gentle blow; to touch gently; to rap lightly; to pat; as, to tap one with the hand or a cane.
  • (v. t.) To put a new sole or heel on; as, to tap shoes.
  • (n.) A gentle or slight blow; a light rap; a pat.
  • (n.) A piece of leather fastened upon the bottom of a boot or shoe in repairing or renewing the sole or heel.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (v. i.) To strike a gentle blow.
  • (n.) A hole or pipe through which liquor is drawn.
  • (n.) A plug or spile for stopping a hole pierced in a cask, or the like; a faucet.
  • (n.) Liquor drawn through a tap; hence, a certain kind or quality of liquor; as, a liquor of the same tap.
  • (n.) A place where liquor is drawn for drinking; a taproom; a bar.
  • (n.) A tool for forming an internal screw, as in a nut, consisting of a hardened steel male screw grooved longitudinally so as to have cutting edges.
  • (v. t.) To pierce so as to let out, or draw off, a fluid; as, to tap a cask, a tree, a tumor, etc.
  • (v. t.) Hence, to draw from (anything) in any analogous way; as, to tap telegraph wires for the purpose of intercepting information; to tap the treasury.
  • (v. t.) To draw, or cause to flow, by piercing.
  • (v. t.) To form an internal screw in (anything) by means of a tool called a tap; as, to tap a nut.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Tap the relevant details into Google, though, and the real names soon appear before your eyes: the boss in question, stern and yet oddly quixotic, is Phyllis Westberg of Harold Ober Associates.
  • (2) A time course study using serially tapped guinea pig peritoneal cells is described.
  • (3) In the UK the twin threat of Ukip and the BNP tap into similar veins of discontent as their counterparts across the English channel.
  • (4) If you worship money and things - if they are where you tap real meaning in life - then you will never have enough.
  • (5) In order to clarify the development of mandibular movements associated with growth and development of the stomatognathic system, we compared the mandibular movements of children with normal occlusion at different Hellman's dental age between IIA and IIIB, during tooth tapping movements using the following 7 different kinds of frequency; ad lib.
  • (6) We examined the MLS, a motor performance test, in an extended form including assessment of "tapping" regularity for its practicability in therapy control of Parkinson's disease.
  • (7) We conclude that routine use of Golytely is preferable to methods involving catharsis and standard tap water enemas for barium enema examination, on the grounds that it is equally effective, yet more convenient for patients and for the radiology department, and reduces total costs.
  • (8) The surgical treatment was initiated with percutaneous subdural tapping which was repeated periodically, if indicated, for 2 weeks.
  • (9) The onset of tolerance to morphine analgesia was studied in 34 female Wistar rats immediately after they drank a dextrose-saccharin cocktail or tap water for 6 or 24 hours.
  • (10) Painless recovery of radiopaque substances after positive contrast myelography is often difficult, especially if the initial spinal tap is not made precisely in the midline.
  • (11) It’s about state sovereignty.” The BLM’s retreat vindicated his stance, he said, tapping a copy of the US constitution which he keeps in a breast pocket.
  • (12) Never leave a tap dripping - it can waste up to four litres a day.
  • (13) His balancing pole swayed uncontrollably, nearly tapping the sides of his feet.
  • (14) The power users and early adopters of these apps, the ones you're most likely to see tapping their thumbs over a tiny screen, are under 25.
  • (15) Der Spiegel magazine reported on Friday that Germany’s bid committee had tapped into a slush fund of €6.7m to buy votes at world football’s governing body Fifa.
  • (16) Past studies have shown that in normal non-depleted cats, somatosensory stimuli (forepaw tap) evoke both complex and simple spike responses.
  • (17) Citing information gathered from "intelligence services, witnesses and phone taps" he named the Liberal Democratic party of Russia (LDPR), an ultra-nationalist party in Russia's Duma.
  • (18) Dortmund seemed certain to score after Reus and Grosskreutz swapped passes on the edge of the area and Reuz tapped the ball into the path of Gundogan, charging in to meet it five yards out.
  • (19) While you can buy commercial formulations, I have always found that tap water, a cup of strong black tea, and some lemon juice provide enough nutrients for a lovely fermentation.
  • (20) This study investigates the mechanism of activation via the TAP molecule.

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