A Quick and Simple Dictionary

sap

1. Initialism.  (initialism of, Scientific Advisory Panel) .
2. 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.
3. Initialism.  (South Africa) (initialism of, South African Police) .
4. Initialism.  (South Africa, obsolete) (initialism of, South Africa Party) .
5. 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.
6. Initialism.  (US, military) (initialism of, Special Access Program) .
7. Initialism.  (television) (initialism of, second audio program) .
8. Noun.  (uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
9. Noun.  (uncountable) The sap-wood, or alburnum, of a tree.
10. Noun.  (slang, countable) A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop; a naive person.
11. Noun.  (countable, US) A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
12. Verb.  (transitive, slang) To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
13. 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.
14. Verb.  (transitive) To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
15. Verb.  (transitive, military) To pierce with saps.
16. Verb.  To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
17. Verb.  (transitive) To gradually weaken.
18. Verb.  (intransitive) To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps — 12.