English Explanatory Dictionary

sap

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
  2. The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
  3. Any juice.
  4. Vitality.
  5. A naive person; a simpleton.
verb
  1. To exhaust the vitality of.
  2. To drain, suck or absorb sap from (a tree, etc.).
verb
  1. To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
  2. To gradually drain (someone's energy or vitality).
  3. To pierce with saps.
  4. To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
  5. To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
noun
  1. A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.
noun
  1. A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
verb
  1. To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
name
  1. Initialism of Scientific Advisory Panel.
  2. Initialism of South African Police.
  3. Initialism of South Africa Party.
  4. SAP AG, derived from the German Initialism of Systeme, Anwendungen und Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung, one of the world's largest software companies.
noun
  1. Initialism of statutory adoption pay, payments made by an employer to an employee who is absent from work after the adoption of a child.
  2. Initialism of special access program.
  3. Abbreviation of second audio program.
  4. Initialism of structural adjustment program.
  5. Initialism of speech act participant.
  6. Initialism of superabsorbent polymer.
  7. Initialism of superabsorbent powder, made of superabsorbent polymer.

Pronunciation

/sæp/ en-us-sap.ogg

Word forms

sap saps sapping sapped

Etymology

From Middle English sap, from Old English sæp (“juice, sap”), from Proto-West Germanic *sap (“sap, juice”) (compare Dutch sap, German Saft, Icelandic safi), from Proto-Indo-European *sab-, *sap- (“to taste”) (compare Welsh syb-wydd (“fir”), Latin sapa (“must, new wine”), Russian со́пли (sópli, “snivel”), Old Armenian համ (ham, “taste”), Avestan 𐬬𐬌-𐬱𐬁𐬞𐬀 (vi-šāpa, “having poisonous juices”), Sanskrit सबर् (sabar, “juice, nectar”)). More at sage. sap (“naive person”) is a clipping of sapskull (literally “person with sap in their skull”).

Synonyms

milksop saphead superabsorbent polymer super-absorbent polymer super absorbent polymer superabsorbing polymer super-absorbing polymer super absorbing polymer superabsorbent powder super-absorbent powder super absorbent powder superabsorbing powder super-absorbing powder super absorbing powder superabsorbent polymer powder super-absorbent polymer powder super absorbent polymer powder superabsorbing polymer powder super-absorbing polymer powder super absorbing polymer powder

Related words

CC MTS DV

Derived words

cell sap coconut sap crude sap elaborated sap milk-sap pine sap pinesap sap ball sapcicle sapfest sapful sap green saphead sapheaded sapless saplike sapling sap moon sap poison sappy sap rot sap shield sapskull sap stain sapstreak sapsucker sapsucking sap tube sapwood tree sap unsapped sap fagot sapper sap roller

Translations

Bulgarian: подкопавам Dutch: ondermijnen Dutch: aantasten Dutch: ondergraven Finnish: kaivaa maata alta French: saper French: miner Ido: sapar Italian: scalzare Italian: minare Portuguese: socavar Romanian: săpa Romanian: submina Spanish: zapar Spanish: socavar
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