Difference between Tab and Tap

What is the difference between Tab and Tap?

Tab as a verb is mark with a tab. while Tap as a verb is to furnish with taps.

Tab

Part of speech: verb

Definition: Mark with a tab. To use the tab key on a computer or typewriter to navigate the screen or page. Short for tabulate.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A small flap or strip of material attached to something, for holding, manipulation, identification, etc. A navigational widget for switching between sets of controls or documents. A tablet, especially one containing illicit drugs. A fast march or run with full kit. A student of Cambridge University, derived from the Latin Cantabrigia (often shortened to Cantab.). A restaurant bill. Credit account, e.g., in a shop or bar. Short for tabulator. A space character that extends to the next aligned column, traditionally used for tabulation. cigarette. A form of musical notation indicating fingering rather than the pitch of notes, commonly used for stringed instruments.

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.

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