zap

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Turkish - Turkish
Büyük, ağzı kapaklı küp
Hakkari'de bir akarsu
English - English
To further energize or charge (magnetic material)

They zapped my motor's magnets.

To damage (especially electronics) with electrostatic discharge

I think they zapped the processor.

An electrical shock

You might feel a little zap touching a metal doorknob when the air is dry.

To use a remote control to repeatedly change channels on a television
To heat (something) in a microwave oven

If it's not warm in the middle, zap it some more.

Representing the sound or action of a zap

Then the computer went zap and I lost all my work.

To strike (something or someone) with electricity or energy, as by shooting

They spent the whole movie zapping bad guys into oblivion.

A sound made by a sudden release of electricity or some similar energy
To delete or discard (electronic media)

They zapped a lot of files before realizing they had not backed up lately.

To make a zapping sound
{i} short length of time in a microwave oven; energy and enthusiasm; unexpected forceful strike or hit; jolt; spicy quality
A layman's term for an electrical discharge or electrostatic discharge, ESD
To remove permanently
To zap something such as a computer file or document means to to delete it from the computer memory or to clear it from the screen
strike suddenly and with force; "This show zaps the viewers with some shocking scenes"
1 n Spiciness 2 vt To make food spicy 3 vt To make someone `suffer' by making his food spicy (Most hackers love spicy food Hot-and-sour soup is considered wimpy unless it makes you wipe your nose for the rest of the meal ) See {zapped} 4 vt To modify, usually to correct; esp used when the action is performed with a debugger or binary patching tool Also implies surgical precision "Zap the debug level to 6 and run it again " In the IBM mainframe world, binary patches are applied to programs or to the OS with a program called `superzap', whose file name is `IMASPZAP' (possibly contrived from I M A SuPerZAP) 5 vt To erase or reset 6 To {fry} a chip with static electricity "Uh oh --- I think that lightning strike may have zapped the disk controller "
A colloquial term for the electrical shock a person may feel when he or she has built up a charge of 3000 volts or more on his or her body and then discharges by such action as touching a doorknob or other grounded object at a different electrical potential, causing electrons to transfer suddenly See "Electrostatic Discharge" and "Spark" Back To Top
To zap someone or something means to kill, destroy, or hit them, for example with a gun or in a computer game. A guard zapped him with the stun gun
If you zap channels while watching television, you change channels using the remote control. Men like to zap the TV channels, something that can drive certain women berserk
To use a remote control to repeatedly change channel on a television
{f} kill, shoot; destroy; defeat; attack suddenly (Slang); complete something very quickly, move very fast; cook or warm up something in a microwave oven; photocopy something; (Computers) damage or destroy hardware or media by means of electricity; erase or get rid of something (Computers); change stations during television advertisements with a remote control; (Broadcasting) use an apparatus to erase commercials from a transmission (i.e.: with a pause button in videotaping); give an electric shock (Slang)
strike at with firepower or bombs; "zap the enemy"
cook or heat in a microwave oven; "You can microwave the left-overs"
strike suddenly and with force; "This show zaps the viewers with some shocking scenes
kill with or as if with a burst of gunfire or electric current or as if by shooting; "in this computer game, space travellers are vaporized by aliens"
zap out
Lose one's mind
zapped
past of zap
zapped
To be killed or to kill
zapped
killed
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adj Spicy This term is used to distinguish between food that is hot (in temperature) and food that is spicy-hot For example, the Chinese appetizer Bon Bon Chicken is a kind of chicken salad that is cold but zapped; by contrast, vanilla wonton soup is hot but not zapped See also oriental food, laser chicken See zap, senses 1 and 2
zapped
adj Spicy This term is used to distinguish between food that is hot (in temperature) and food that is *spicy*-hot For example, the Chinese appetizer Bon Bon Chicken is a kind of chicken salad that is cold but zapped; by contrast, {vanilla} wonton soup is hot but not zapped See also {{oriental food}}, {laser chicken} See {zap}, senses 1 and 2
zapped
{s} exhausted; drained; tired to the point of exhaustion
zapping
using the remote control to switch to other content when a commercial appears
zapping
Non-Electric Pokémon that can use some Electric skills Skills: Thunderpunch, Zap Cannon
zapping
Changing channels quickly using a remote control
zapping
The process in which consumers avoid seeing commercials by switching channels on their television with a remote control device
zapping
{i} use of a remote control and switching to another channel as to avoid commercials
zapping
present participle of zap
zaps
plural of zap
zaps
third-person singular of zap
zap
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