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tapper has 4 distinct synonyms spread across 3 of its 5 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
a person who strikes a surface lightly and usually repeatedly
“finger tappers irritated her”
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for tapper come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.
a worker who uses a tap to cut screw threads
someone who wiretaps a telephone or telegraph wire
a dancer who sounds out rhythms by using metal taps on the toes and heels of the shoes