English-Thai Dictionary

sap

N น้ำ หล่อเลี้ยง ใน เนื้อเยื่อ ของ ต้นไม้  ของเหลว ที่ หล่อเลี้ยง ร่างกาย  ของเหลว สำคัญ ต่อ ชีวิต  fluid secretion essence lifeblood nam-lor-ling-nuan-yuai-tong-ton-mai

 

sap

VT ขุด อุโมงค์ เข้าหา ฐาน ข้าศึก  kud-u-mong-kao-ha-tan

 

sap

VT ค่อยๆ  ทำลาย  ทอน กำลัง  exhaust subvert koi-koi-tam-lai

 

sap

VT ดูด ออก  dud-ook

 

sap

VT ตี ด้วย ไม้ พลอง  ตี ด้วย ตะบอง  te-duai-mai-pong

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SAP

n. 1. The juice of plants of any kind, which flows chiefly between the wood and the bark. From the sap of a species of maple, is made sugar of a good quality by evaporation.
2. The alburnum of a tree; the exterior part of the wood, next to the bark. [A sense in general use in New England. ]

 

SAP

v.t. 1. To undermine; to subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine.
Their dwellings were sapp'd by floods.
2. To undermine; to subvert by removing the foundation of. Discontent saps the foundation of happiness. Intrigue and corruption sap the constitution of a free government.

 

SAP

v.i.To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining. Both assaults are carried on by sapping.

 

SAP

n.In sieges, a trench for undermining; or an approach made to a fortified place by digging or under cover. The single sap has only a single parapet; the double has one on each side, and the flying is made with gabions, etc. In all saps, traverses are left to cover the men.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

SAP

Sap, n. Etym: [AS. sæp; 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 (Zoöl.), 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.

 

SAP

Sap, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Saped; p. pr. & vb. n. Sapping.] Etym: [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. )

 

Defn: To pierce with saps.

 

3. To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken. Ring out the grief that saps the mind. Tennyson.

 

SAP

SAP Sap, v. i.

 

Defn: To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps. W. P. Craighill. Both assaults carried on by sapping. Tatler.

 

SAP

SAP Sap, n. (Mil. )

 

Defn: 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.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

sap

sap 1 |sap sæp | ▶noun the fluid, chiefly water with dissolved sugars and mineral salts, that circulates in the vascular system of a plant. • vigor or energy: the hot, heady days of youth when the sap was rising. ▶verb ( saps, sapping, sapped ) [ with obj. ] gradually weaken or destroy (a person's strength or power ): our energy is being sapped by bureaucrats and politicians. • (sap someone of ) drain someone of (strength or power ): her illness had sapped her of energy and life. DERIVATIVES sap less adjective ORIGIN Old English sæp, probably of Germanic origin. The verb (dating from the mid 18th cent. ) is often interpreted as a figurative use of the notion “drain the sap from, ” but is derived originally from the verb sap 2, in the sense ‘undermine. ’

 

sap

sap 2 |sæp sap | ▶noun historical a tunnel or trench to conceal an assailant's approach to a fortified place. ▶verb ( saps, sapping, sapped ) [ no obj. ] historical dig a sap or saps. • [ with obj. ] archaic make insecure by removing the foundations of: a crazy building, sapped and undermined by the rats. • [ with obj. ] (often as noun sapping ) Geography undercut by water or glacial action. ORIGIN late 16th cent. (as a verb in the sense ‘dig a sap or covered trench ’): from French saper, from Italian zappare, from zappa ‘spade, spadework, ’ probably from Arabic sarab ‘underground passage, ’ or sabora ‘probe a wound, explore. ’

 

sap

sap 3 |sæp sap | ▶noun informal a foolish and gullible person: He fell for it! What a sap! ORIGIN early 19th cent.: abbreviation of dialect sapskull ‘person with a head like sapwood, ’ from sap 1 (in the sense ‘sapwood ’) + skull .

 

sap

sap 4 |sæp sap | informal ▶noun a bludgeon or club. ▶verb ( saps, sapping, sapped ) [ with obj. ] hit with a bludgeon or club. ORIGIN late 19th cent. (as a noun ): abbreviation of sapling (from which such a club was originally made ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

sap

sap 1 |sap | ▶noun [ mass noun ] the fluid which circulates in the vascular system of a plant, consisting chiefly of water with dissolved sugars and mineral salts. • vigour or energy: the hot, heady days of youth when the sap was rising. ▶verb ( saps, sapping, sapped ) [ with obj. ] gradually weaken or destroy (a person's strength or power ): our energy is being sapped by bureaucrats and politicians. • (sap someone of ) drain someone of (strength or power ): her illness had sapped her of energy and life. DERIVATIVES sapless adjective ORIGIN Old English sæp, probably of Germanic origin. The verb (dating from the mid 18th cent. ) is often interpreted as a figurative use of the notion ‘drain the sap from ’, but is derived originally from the verb sap 2, in the sense ‘undermine ’.

 

sap

sap 2 |sap | ▶noun historical a tunnel or trench to conceal an assailant's approach to a fortified place. ▶verb ( saps, sapping, sapped ) [ no obj. ] historical dig a sap or saps. • [ with obj. ] archaic make insecure by removing the foundations of: a crazy building, sapped and undermined by the rats. • [ with obj. ] Geography undercut by water or glacial action. ORIGIN late 16th cent. (as a verb in the sense ‘dig a sap or covered trench ’): from French saper, from Italian zappare, from zappa ‘spade, spadework ’, probably from Arabic sarab ‘underground passage ’, or sabora ‘probe a wound, explore ’.

 

sap

sap 3 |sap | ▶noun informal, chiefly N. Amer. a foolish and gullible person: He fell for it! What a sap! ORIGIN early 19th cent.: abbreviation of dialect sapskull ‘person with a head like sapwood ’, from sap 1 (in the sense ‘sapwood ’) + skull .

 

sap

sap 4 |sap |N. Amer. informal ▶noun a bludgeon or club. ▶verb ( saps, sapping, sapped ) [ with obj. ] hit with a bludgeon or club. ORIGIN late 19th cent. (as a noun ): abbreviation of sapling (from which such a club was originally made ).

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

sap

sap 1 noun 1 sap from the roots of trees: juice, secretion, fluid, liquid. 2 they're full of youthful sap: vigor, energy, drive, dynamism, life, spirit, liveliness, sparkle, verve, ebullience, enthusiasm, gusto, vitality, vivacity, fire, zest, zeal, exuberance; informal get-up-and-go, oomph, vim. ▶verb they sapped the will of the troops: erode, wear away /down, deplete, reduce, lessen, attenuate, undermine, exhaust, drain, bleed.

 

sap

sap 2 noun informal he fell for it — what a sap! See idiot.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

sap

sap 1 noun 1 these insects suck the sap from the roots of trees: plant fluid, vital fluid, life fluid, juice, secretion, liquor, liquid. 2 people full of sap and ready to go: vigour, energy, gusto, drive, push, brio, dynamism, life, go, spirit, liveliness, animation, bounce, sparkle, effervescence, fizz, verve, spiritedness, ebullience, high spirits, enthusiasm, initiative, vitality, vivacity, fire, dash, panache, elan, snap, zest, zeal, exuberance; informal feistiness, get-up-and-go, gumption, oomph, pizzazz, vim, zing, zip. ▶verb 1 the great loss of life had sapped the will of the troops to attack: erode, wear away, wear down, deplete, reduce, lessen, lower, attenuate, undermine, exhaust, impair, drain, bleed, consume. 2 the confirmation of his friend's guilt sapped him of all energy: drain, empty, exhaust, deprive, milk.

 

sap

sap 2 noun informal he realized that he'd just made a sap of himself. See idiot.

 

Sanseido Dictionary

SAP

SAP 〖和 special ＋automobile ＋policy 〗自家用自動車総合保険 。自動車保険商品の一 。自家用車を対象に ，多くの場合 ，対人賠償保険 自損事故保険 無保険車傷害保険 対物賠償保険 搭乗者傷害保険 車両保険を組み合わせた総合的な保険商品 。

 

SAP

SAP 〖 structural adjustment program 〗構造調整プログラム 。IMF が ，累積債務をもつ国に行う一連の政策勧告 。

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

sap

sap 1 /sæp /名詞 1 U 〘植 〙(植物 樹木の )樹液 .2 C ｟米 くだけて ｠〖しばしば呼びかけで 〗間抜け, お人よし (saphead ).3 U 生気, 活気, 活力 ; 性欲 .4 C ｟米 ｠こん棒 (｟英 ｠cosh ).動詞 ～s ; ～ped ; ～ping 他動詞 1 〈体力 勇気 自信など 〉を徐々に弱める (diminish ).2 …から樹液をしぼり取る .3 〈丸太など 〉から白木質を取り除く .

 

sap

sap 2 名詞 C 〘軍 〙(敵陣地に迫る )抗道, 対壕 （たいごう ）; 対壕を掘ること .動詞 ～s ; ～ped ; ～ping 自動詞 対壕を掘る ; 対壕を掘って近づく .他動詞 〈敵陣地 〉に対壕を掘って近づく ; 〈塀など 〉を掘り崩す .