sap
IPA: sˈæp
noun
- (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.
- (countable, US, slang) A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
- (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.
- (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.
- Initialism of Scientific Advisory Panel.
- (South Africa) Initialism of South African Police.
- (South Africa, obsolete) Initialism of South Africa Party.
- (Britain) 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.
- (economics) Initialism of structural adjustment program.
- (linguistics) Initialism of speech act participant. [(grammar) The speaker or listener of a sentence; the first person or second person.]
verb
- (transitive) To drain, suck or absorb from (tree, etc.).
- (transitive, figurative) To exhaust the vitality of.
- (transitive, slang) To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
- (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.
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