SAP
- Initialism. (initialism of, Scientific Advisory Panel) .
- Initialism. (British) (initialism of, Statutory Adoption Pay) These are payments made by an employer to an employee who is absent from work after the adoption of a child.
- Initialism. (South Africa) (initialism of, South African Police) .
- Initialism. (South Africa, obsolete) (initialism of, South Africa Party) .
- Initialism. (software) SAP AG, derived from the German (initialism of, Systeme, Anwendungen und Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung) It is one of the world's largest software companies.
- Initialism. (US, military) (initialism of, Special Access Program) .
- Initialism. (television) (initialism of, second audio program) .
- Noun. (uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
- Noun. (uncountable) The sap-wood, or alburnum, of a tree.
- Noun. (slang, countable) A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop; a naive person.
- Noun. (countable, US) A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
- Verb. (transitive, slang) To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
- 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.
- Verb. (transitive) To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
- Verb. (transitive, military) To pierce with saps.
- Verb. To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
- Verb. (transitive) To gradually weaken.
- Verb. (intransitive) To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps — 12.
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