| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Present participle conjugation of the verb frap.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (frap) | 1. Make secure by lashing; "frap a sail".[Wordnet]. 2. Take up the slack of; "frap a rope".[Wordnet]. 3. To draw together; to bind with a view to secure and strengthen, as a vessel by passing cables around it; to tighten; as a tackle by drawing the lines together.[Websters]. 4. To brace by drawing together, as the cords of a drum.[Websters]. 5. Base verb from the following inflections: fraping, frapping, fraped, frapped, fraps, fraper, frapper, frapers, frappers, frapingly, frappingly, frapedly and frappedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "FRAPPING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references) |
Specialty Definition: frap
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] In seamen's language, to cross and draw together the several parts of a tackle to increase the tension.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Environment | Fuel Rod Analysis Program. (references) | ||
| Technology | Field Reliability Assessment Program. (references) | ||
| Transportation | To bind lightly by passing lines around; to draw together the parts of tackle or other combinations of ropes to increase tension. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] (nautical) To draw together tightly. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
Abbreviations & Acronyms: frap
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | ||||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field | |
| FRAP | English | Fluorescence Recovery After Photobleaching | N/A | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | Top | |||
Topics by Level of Interest: frap | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| FRAP | 8 | FRAP | 8 | |
| FRAP (Chile) | 5 | FRAP (Chile) | 5 | |
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
