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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sap \Sap\, noun [AS. s[ae]p; 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} (Zo["o]l.), 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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sap \Sap\, verb (used without an object) To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps. --W. P. Craighill.
Both assaults are carried on by sapping. --Tatler.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sap \Sap\, noun (Mil.) 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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sap \Sap\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Sapped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sapping}.] [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.) To pierce with saps.
3. To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
Ring out the grief that saps the mind. --Tennyson.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
sap
noun
1: a watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant
2: a person who lacks good judgment [syn: {fool}, {saphead}, {muggins}, {tomfool}]
3: a piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle; used for hitting people [syn: {blackjack}, {cosh}]
verb
1: deplete; "exhaust one's savings"; "We quickly played out our strength" [syn: {run down}, {exhaust}, {play out}, {tire}]
2: excavate the earth beneath [also: {sapping}, {sapped}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
205 Moby Thesaurus words for "sap": abate, abri, approach trench, asshole, attenuate, axiom, babe, beverage, blood, blunt, boob, booby, bore, bunker, burrow, center, chump, cinch, communication trench, core, countermine, coupure, cramp, credulous person, cripple, cull, damp, dampen, deaden, debilitate, delve, dematerialize, deplete, destroy, devitalize, dig, dig out, dike, ding-a-ling, dingbat, dingdong, disable, disembody, distillate, distillation, ditch, double sap, drain, dredge, drill, drink, drive, dugout, dull, dupe, easy mark, easy pickings, elixir, enervate, enfeeble, entrenchment, essence, essential, etherealize, eviscerate, excavate, exhaust, extenuate, fabric, fall guy, fire trench, fish, flower, fluid, fluid extract, fluid mechanics, flying sap, focus, fool, fortified tunnel, fosse, foxhole, fundamental, furrow, gallery, galoot, gist, gobe-mouches, goof, gouge, gouge out, gravamen, greener, greenhorn, greeny, groove, grub, gruel, gudgeon, gull, heart, honeycomb, hydraulics, hydrogeology, hypostasis, inner essence, innocent, jerk, jerk-off, juice, kernel, klutz, knock out, latex, lay low, leadpipe cinch, liquid, liquid extract, liquor, lower, mark, marrow, material, matter, meat, medium, milk, mine, mitigate, moat, monkey, mutt, nub, nucleus, nuts and bolts, overset, overthrow, overturn, parallel, patsy, pigeon, pith, plaything, postulate, principle, prize sap, pushover, quarry, quid, quiddity, quintessence, rarefy, rattle, reduce, ruin, sabotage, sap the foundations, saphead, sawney, schlemiel, scoop, scoop out, scrabble, scrape, scratch, semiliquid, shake, shake up, shovel, sink, sitting duck, slit trench, soften up, soul, spade, spirit, spiritualize, stooge, stuff, substance, subtilize, subvert, sucker, sum and substance, the nitty-gritty, throw down, throw over, toy, trench, trough, trusting soul, tunnel, unbrace, undermine, unman, unnerve, unstrengthen, unstring, upend, upset, victim, water, weaken, whey, wreck
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
SAP
1. {SAP AG} (Systems, Applications and Products in Data Processing). 2. {Service Advertising Protocol}. 3. {Service Access Point}. 4. {Symbolic Assembler Program}. (1999-05-26)
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
SAP Service Access Point (OSI)
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
SAP Service Advertising Protocol (Novell, Netware, IPX)
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
SAP Session Announcement Protocol (Internet, RFC 2974)
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
SAP Symbolic Assembler Program (IBM, IBM 704)
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
SAP SystemAnalyse und Programmentwicklung (manufacturer, predecessor)
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
SAP Systems, Applications and Products [in data processing] [ag] (manufacturer)
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