Difference between Beg and Tap

What is the difference between Beg and Tap?

Beg as a verb is to request the help of someone, often in the form of money. while Tap as a verb is to furnish with taps.

Beg

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To request the help of someone, often in the form of money. To plead with someone for help or for a favor. To assume, in the phrase . To raise a question, in the phrase .

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A provincial governor under the Ottoman Empire, a bey.

Example sentence: In the old days, you would chastise people for reinventing the wheel. Now we beg, 'Oh, please, please reinvent the wheel.'

Tap

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To furnish with taps.To draw off liquid from a vesselTo place a listening or recording device on a telephone or wired connection.To intercept a communication without authority.To cut an internal screw thread.To have sexual intercourse with.To strike lightly.To touch one's finger, foot, or other body parts on a surface (usually) repeatedly.To make a sharp noise.To designate for some duty or for membership, as in 'a tap on the shoulder'.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A tapering cylindrical pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask; a spigot.A device used to dispense liquids.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.Device used to listen in secretly on telephone calls.A repeated touching of one's hands, foot or other body part.

Example sentence: I like that Brita makes tap water taste good, so you don't need to spend money or waste plastic with bottled water.

We hope you now know whether to use Beg or Tap in your sentence.

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