SAP
\sˈap], \sˈap], \s_ˈa_p]\
Definitions of SAP
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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deplete; "exhaust one's savings"; "We quickly played out our strength"
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a person who lacks good judgment
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a watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant
By Princeton University
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deplete; "exhaust one's savings"; "We quickly played out our strength"
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a person who lacks good judgment
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a watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
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The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
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A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop.
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To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
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To pierce with saps.
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To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
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To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
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The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
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A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop.
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To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
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To pierce with saps.
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To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
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To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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The watery circulating juice of a plant; the layer of soft wood next the bark of a tree; vitality; vital fluid; in the military sense, a deep, narrow, concealed ditch run towards an enemy's works.
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To deprive of vitality; undermine; as, to sap one's strength; to dig beneath.
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In the military sense, to approach the enemy's lines by digging a deep, narrow, concealed ditch at right angles to the front line.
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Sapped.
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Sapping.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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The vital juice of plants: (bot.) the part of the wood next to the bark.
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To destroy by digging underneath: to undermine.
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To proceed by undermining: pr.p. sapping; pa.t. and pa.p. sapped.
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An approach dug to a fortification under cover of gabions.
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SAPPER one who saps.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To weaken; undermine.
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The juice of plants.
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Any vital fluid; vitality.
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A deep, narrow ditch in siege-works.
By James Champlin Fernald
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The circulating juice of plants; vital fluid; the alburnum of a tree.
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A trench for undermining.
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To undermine; to subvert by digging or wearing away; to subvert by removing the foundation of.
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To proceed by secretly undermining.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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The vital juice or circulating fluid of plants.
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To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine or undermine; to proceed by mining; to proceed secretly; to undermine, as one's reputation.
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The art of approaching a fortress, when within range of fire, by excavating trenches in such a manner as to protect the men from fire.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Robley Dunglison
