Difference between Tap and Exploit

What is the difference between Tap and Exploit?

Tap as a verb is to furnish with taps. while Exploit as a verb is to use for one's own advantage.

Tap

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To furnish with taps. To draw off liquid from a vessel To 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: Maybe water polo and volleyball really help me on the court. Water polo with my one-handed passes, volleyball too, maybe when I tap passes.

Exploit

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A heroic or extraordinary deed.An achievement.A program or technique that exploits a vulnerability in other software.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To use for one's own advantage.

Example sentence: I'm for mechanical art. When I took up silk screening, it was to more fully exploit the preconceived image through the commercial techniques of multiple reproduction.

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

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