"tap" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

tap sustantivo

sustantivo + tap
Kolokacji: 10
water tap • phone tap • telephone tap • wire tap • love tap • ...
tap + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 14
tap water • tap dancer • tap dance • tap dancing • tap shoe • ...
tap + verbo
Kolokacji: 4
tap comes • tap sounds • tap runs • tap interrupts
verbo + tap
Kolokacji: 4
give a tap • play taps • use taps • study tap
adjetivo + tap
Kolokacji: 21
Spinal Tap • light tap • cold tap • gentle tap • hot tap • ...
(1) Spinal, sharp, quick
Kolokacji: 3
(3) cold, outside
Kolokacji: 2
(4) hot, illegal
Kolokacji: 2
(5) double, single, communal
Kolokacji: 3
1. double tap = podwójny strzał (technika strzelania) double tap
2. single tap = jeden kran single tap
3. communal tap = wspólny kran communal tap
  • In the townships, where families sleep in shifts for lack of beds and draw their water from a communal tap, unemployment runs about 40 percent.
  • Just a speed bump separates this suburb from a black peasant reserve where the women carry water jugs home to mud huts from communal taps.
  • He pointed at the new reservoir supplying communal taps that used to run dry.
  • I remember that we didn't have a tap in the house but used a communal tap from which we had to fill two barrels in our garden.
  • Every morning before we went to school, we all had to take a bucket appropriate to our size and run a relay from the communal tap to the barrels until they were full.
  • While her smallest children scrounge about for firewood, older children fetch water for bathing and cooking from a communal tap.
  • There, women draped in layers of dark clothing draw water from communal taps.
  • In Oukasie, there are 54 communal taps for an estimated 10,000 people, and the sewerage is taken away in buckets.
  • Did they have to hear other people's whispering that they were traitors to their country every time they went to the communal tap for water?
  • The drinking water that flows to the few communal taps comes from a reservoir polluted by two cemeteries that lie submerged in the rainy season.
(6) little, slight
Kolokacji: 2
(7) polite, friendly
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + tap
Kolokacji: 6
on tap • of taps • from the tap • with a tap • in tap • ...

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