sap
Short definition from Wiktionary
Noun
- The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
- The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
- Any juice.
- Vitality.
- A naive person; a simpleton.
- A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
- 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.
- Initialism of statutory adoption pay, payments made by an employer to an employee who is absent from work after the adoption of a child.
- Initialism of special access program.
- Initialism of second audio program.
- Initialism of structural adjustment program.
- Initialism of speech act participant.
- Initialism of superabsorbent polymer.
Verb
- To drain, suck or absorb from (a tree, etc.).
- To exhaust the vitality of.
- To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
- To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
- To pierce with saps.
- To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
- To gradually weaken.
- To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
- To strike with a sap (a blackjack)
Proper noun
- Initialism of Scientific Advisory Panel.
- Initialism of South African Police.
- Initialism of South Africa Party.
- SAP AG, derived from the German Initialism of Systeme, Anwendungen und Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung, one of the world's largest software companies.
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