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As a noun sap

is the juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.

As a verb sap

is to strike with a sap (with a blackjack).

As an initialism SAP

is initialism of Scientific Advisory Panel|lang=en.

As an abbreviation BC is

british Columbia, a province of Canada.

sap

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) sap, from (etyl) ), from *''sap 'to taste'. More at sage.

Noun

(wikipedia sap)
  • (uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
  • (uncountable) The sap-wood, or alburnum, of a tree.
  • (slang, countable) A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop; a naive person.
    • Derived terms
    (terms derived from sap) * crude sap * elaborated sap * sap ball * sap green * saphead * sapling * sap poison * sap rot * sapsucker * sap tube

    Etymology 2

    Probably from sapling.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (countable, US, slang) A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
    • (rfimage)

    Verb

    (sapp)
  • (slang) To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).

    • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) saper (compare Spanish zapar and Italian zappare) from .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (military) 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.
    • Derived terms
    * sap fagot * sap roller * sapper

    Verb

    (sapp)
  • To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
  • * (rfdate)
    • Nor safe their dwellings were, for sapped by floods, / Their houses fell upon their household gods.
  • (military) To pierce with saps.
  • To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
  • * 1850 ,
    • Ring out the grief that saps the mind
  • To gradually weaken.
  • * to sap one’s conscience
  • To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps — 12
  • * (rfdate)
    • Both assaults carried on by sapping .

    Anagrams

    * * * * * ----

    bc

    English

    ===(en)=== (Before Christ)
  • Before Christ. Often written in small caps.
    • The Han Dynasty ruled China from 206 BC to AD 220.
  • British Columbia, a Canadian province.
  • Baja California, a Mexican state.
  • birth control
  • (label)

    • Usage notes

    * The as well as most house styles require placing the AD' before the number of the year and ' BC after, although in casual use either abbreviation can be found in either place. * Some use BCE, for "Before the Common Era", which is more secular in nature, to avoid potential Christian bias. * "B.C." is the customary abbreviation of British Columbia as used in case citations; see e.g. The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, Nineteenth Edition (2010), "Geographical Terms: Australian states and Canadian provinces and territories", Table T10.2, page 438.

    Synonyms

    * (before Christ) , BCE

    Antonyms

    * (before Christ) (anno Domini, Anno Domini, in the year of our Lord); CE (Christian Era, Common Era, Current Era)

    Derived terms

    * BCer

    Abbreviation

    (Abbreviation) (head)
  • British Columbia, a province of Canada.
  • (US, navy) battlecruiser, a type of warship.

    • Anagrams

    * English retronyms