Tap vs. Chaser: What's the Difference?

To strike gently with a light blow or blows

One that chases or pursues another

To give a light rap with

A drink, as of beer or water, taken after hard liquor.

To produce with a succession of light blows

One who decorates metal by engraving or embossing.

To select, as for membership in an organization; designate.

A steel tool for cutting or finishing screw threads.

To repair (shoe heels or toes) by applying a thin layer of leather or a substitute material.

A person or thing (ship, plane, car, etc.) that chases.

To attach metal plates to (shoe toes or heels).

(archaic) A hunter.

To deliver a gentle, light blow or blows.

A horse: (originally) a horse used for hunting; (now) a horse trained for steeplechasing, a steeplechaser.

To walk making light clicks.

A drink drunk after another of a different kind.

To tap-dance.

Someone who follows logs out of the forest in order to signal a yarder engineer to stop them if they become fouled also called a frogger.

To furnish with a spigot or tap.

(logging) One who unhooks chokers from the logs at the landing.

To pierce in order to draw off liquid

A piece of music, etc. played after a performance while the audience leaves.

To draw (liquid) from a vessel or container

One of a series of adjacent light bulbs that cycle on and off to give the illusion of movement.

(Medicine) To withdraw fluid from (a body cavity).

A long piece of flexible wire used to draw an electrical cable through a wall cavity.

To make a physical connection with or open outlets from

Synonym of prison chaser

To wiretap (a telephone or communications channel).

(slang) A person who seeks out sexual partners with a particular quality:

To establish an electric connection in (a power line), as to divert current secretly.

(slang) A tranny chaser.

To establish access to or a connection with

(slang) A chubby chaser.

To take advantage of; make use of

(slang) A person who seeks partners with HIV in order to become infected.

To cut screw threads in (a collar, socket, or other fitting).

In the sport of Quidditch or Muggle quidditch, a player responsible for passing the quaffle and scoring goals with it.

(Informal) To ask (a person) for money.

Any dragonfly of family Libellulidae.

A gentle blow.

Someone who chases decorates metal; a person who decorates metal by engraving or embossing.

The sound made by such a blow.

A tool used for cleaning out screw threads, either as an integral part of a tap or die to remove waste material produced by the cutting tool, or as a separate tool to repair damaged threads.

A thin layer of leather or a substitute applied to a worn-down shoe heel or toe.

(nautical) A chase gun.

A metal plate attached to the toe or heel of a shoe, as for tap-dancing.

One who or that which chases; a pursuer; a driver; a hunter.

Tap dance.

Same as Chase gun, esp. in terms bow chaser and stern chaser. See under Bow, Stern.

(Linguistics) See flap.

One who chases or engraves. See 5th Chase, and Enchase.

A valve and spout used to regulate delivery of a fluid at the end of a pipe.

A tool with several points, used for cutting or finishing screw threads, either external or internal, on work revolving in a lathe.

A plug for a bunghole; a spigot.

A person who is pursuing and trying to overtake or capture;

Liquor drawn from a spigot.

A drink to follow immediately after another drink

Liquor of a particular brew, cask, or quality.

(Medicine) The removal of fluid from a body cavity

A tool for cutting an internal screw thread.

A makeshift terminal in an electric circuit.

A wiretap.

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

A device used to dispense liquids.

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

A place where liquor is drawn for drinking.

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

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

An interception of communication by authority.

A device used to listen in secretly on telephone calls.

A procedure that removes fluid from a body cavity.

(finance) 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.

(dance) tap dance

The act of touching a touch screen.

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

(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.

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

An Indian malarial fever.

To furnish with taps.

To draw off liquid from a vessel.

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

To exploit.

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

To intercept a communication without authority.

(mechanical) To cut an internal screw thread.

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).

(informal) To cadge, borrow or beg.

To drain off fluid by paracentesis.

To advance someone for a post or job, or for membership of a club.

To strike lightly.

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

To make a sharp noise.

(graphical user interface) To operate an electronic device (e.g. a mobile phone) by tapping a specific place on its (capacitive or other) touch screen.

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

To have sexual intercourse with.

(combat sports) To submit to an opponent by tapping one's hand repeatedly.

To force (an opponent) to submit.

To put a new sole or heel on.

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.

To put a new sole or heel on; as, to tap shoes.

To strike a gentle blow.

To pierce so as to let out, or draw off, a fluid; as, to tap a cask, a tree, a tumor, a keg of beer, etc.

Hence, to draw resources from (a reservoir) in any analogous way; as, to tap someone's knowledge of the Unix system; to tap the treasury.

To draw, or cause to flow, by piercing.

To form an internal screw in (anything) by means of a tool called a tap; as, to tap a nut, a pipe, or tubing.

To connect a listening device to (a telephone or telegraph line) secretly, for the purpose of hearing private conversations; also, to obtain or record (information) by tapping; - a technique used by law enforcement agencies investigating suspected criminals. In the United States it is illegal without a court order permitting it.

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 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.

A hole or pipe through which liquor is drawn.

A plug or spile for stopping a hole pierced in a cask, or the like; a faucet.

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

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

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.

The sound made by a gentle blow

A faucet for drawing water from a pipe or cask

A gentle blow

A small metal plate that attaches to the toe or heel of a shoe (as in tap dancing)

A tool for cutting female (internal) screw threads

A plug for a bunghole in a cask

The act of tapping a telephone or telegraph line to get information

A light touch or stroke

Cut a female screw thread with a tap

Draw from or dip into to get something;

Strike lightly;

Draw from; make good use of;

Tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information;

Furnish with a tap or spout, so as to be able to draw liquid from it;

Make light, repeated taps on a surface;

Walk with a tapping sound

Dance and make rhythmic clicking sounds by means of metal plates nailed to the sole of the dance shoes;

Draw (liquor) from a tap;

Pierce in order to draw a liquid from;

Make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently;