SAP

blackjack, cosh, sap

(noun) a piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle; used for hitting people

fool, sap, saphead, muggins, tomfool

(noun) a person who lacks good judgment

sap

(noun) a watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant

sap

(verb) excavate the earth beneath

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Proper noun

SAP

Initialism of Scientific Advisory Panel.

(South Africa) Initialism of South African Police.

(South Africa, obsolete) Initialism of South Africa Party.

(software) SAP AG, derived from the German Initialism of Systeme, Anwendungen und Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung. It is one of the world's largest software companies.

Noun

SAP (countable and uncountable, plural SAPs)

(British) Initialism of statutory adoption pay. Payments made by an employer to an employee who is absent from work after the adoption of a child.

(US, military) Initialism of special access program.

(television) Initialism of second audio program.

Anagrams

• APS, APs, ASP, PAS, PAs, PSA, Pas, Psa., SPA, Spa, asp, pas, spa

Etymology 1

Noun

sap (countable and uncountable, plural saps)

(uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.

(uncountable) The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.

Any juice.

(figurative) Vitality.

(slang, countable) a naive person; a simpleton

Synonyms: milksop, saphead

Verb

sap (third-person singular simple present saps, present participle sapping, simple past and past participle sapped)

(transitive) To drain, suck or absorb from (tree, etc.).

(transitive, figurative) To exhaust the vitality of.

Etymology 2

Noun

sap (plural saps)

(countable, US, slang) A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.

Verb

sap (third-person singular simple present saps, present participle sapping, simple past and past participle sapped)

(transitive, slang) To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).

Etymology 3

Noun

sap (plural saps)

(military) 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.

Verb

sap (third-person singular simple present saps, present participle sapping, simple past and past participle sapped)

(transitive) To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.

(transitive, military) To pierce with saps.

(transitive) To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.

(transitive) To gradually weaken.

(intransitive) To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.

Anagrams

• APS, APs, ASP, PAS, PAs, PSA, Pas, Psa., SPA, Spa, asp, pas, spa

Source: Wiktionary

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Sap, n. Etym: [AS. sæp; akin to OHG. saf, G. saft, Icel. safi; of uncertain origin; possibly akin to L. sapere to taste, to be wise, sapa must or new wine boiled thick. Cf. Sapid, Sapient.]

1. The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.

Note: The ascending is the crude sap, the assimilation of which takes place in the leaves, when it becomes the elaborated sap suited to the growth of the plant.

2. The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.

3. A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop. [Slang] Sap ball (Bot.), any large fungus of the genus Polyporus. See Polyporus.

– Sap green, a dull light green pigment prepared from the juice of the ripe berries of the Rhamnus catharticus, or buckthorn. It is used especially by water-color artists.

– Sap rot, the dry rot. See under Dry.

– Sap sucker (Zoöl.), any one of several species of small American woodpeckers of the genus Sphyrapicus, especially the yellow-bellied woodpecker (S. varius) of the Eastern United States. They are so named because they puncture the bark of trees and feed upon the sap. The name is loosely applied to other woodpeckers.

– Sap tube (Bot.), a vessel that conveys sap.

Sap, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Saped; p. pr. & vb. n. Sapping.] Etym: [F. saper (cf. Sp. zapar, It. zapare), fr. sape a sort of scythe, LL. sappa a sort of mattock.]

1. To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of. Nor safe their dwellings were, for sapped by floods, Their houses fell upon their household gods. Dryden.

2. (Mil.)

Definition: To pierce with saps.

3. To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken. Ring out the grief that saps the mind. Tennyson.

Sap, v. i.

Definition: To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps. W. P. Craighill. Both assaults carried on by sapping. Tatler.

Sap, n. (Mil.)

Definition: 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. Sap fagot (Mil.), a fascine about three feet long, used in sapping, to close the crevices between the gabions before the parapet is made.

– Sap roller (Mil.), a large gabion, six or seven feet long, filled with fascines, which the sapper sometimes rolls along before him for protection from the fire of an enemy.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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