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Meaning
Noun
●
In Liquids:
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.
●
In American English, Liquids & Weapons:
A
short
wooden
club
; a leather-covered
hand
weapon
; a blackjack.
●
In Military & Weapons:
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.
●
In British English:
Initialism of
statutory
adoption
pay
. Payments made by an
employer
to an
employee
who is
absent
from work after the
adoption
of a child.
●
In American English & Military:
Initialism of
special
access program.
●
In Television:
Initialism of second
audio
program.
●
In Economics:
Initialism of
structural adjustment
program.
●
In Linguistics:
Initialism of
speech act
participant.
Verb
●
In Liquids:
To
drain
,
suck
or
absorb
from (tree, etc.).
●
In Liquids:
To
exhaust
the
vitality
of.
●
In Weapons:
To
strike
with a
sap
(with a blackjack).
●
In Liquids:
To
subvert
by
digging
or
wearing away
; to
mine
; to
undermine
; to
destroy
the
foundation
of.
●
In Military & Weapons:
To
pierce
with saps.
●
In Liquids:
To make
unstable
or
infirm
; to
unsettle
; to weaken.
●
To
gradually
weaken.
●
To
proceed
by
mining
, or by
secretly
undermining
; to
execute
saps.
Name
●
Initialism of Scientific Advisory Panel.
●
Initialism of South African Police.
●
Initialism of South Africa Party.
●
SAP AG,
der
ived from the German Initialism of Systeme, Anwendungen
und
Produkte in
der
Datenverarbeitung. It is one of the world's
largest
software
companies.
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Origin
sap
English
saper
French
sape
French
sappa
Latin
sæp
Old English (ca. 450-1100)
Sourced from
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