SAP
definition
verb
our energy is being sapped by bureaucrats and politicians
gradually weaken or destroy (a person's strength or power).
They complained that they were not allowed to use bombs or to sap and mine the streets held by the insurgents, and they did not want to give quarter to anyone any more.
dig a sap or saps.
noun
Create a living smorgasbord that includes plants with berries, foliage, fruit, nectar, nuts, pollen, sap , and seeds, so critters can dine on what they like.
the fluid, chiefly water with dissolved sugars and mineral salts, that circulates in the vascular system of a plant.
In the British army, a standard cry was ‘follow the sapper’, the term for those who, under engineer officers, dug the saps or shelter trenches used in the attack on fortresses.
a tunnel or trench to conceal an assailant's approach to a fortified place.
abbreviation
apothecaries' scruple.
translation of 'sap'
noun
عرق
example
The combination of excess sugar 'sap' and sunny days create an abundance of the pigment anthocyanin and the brilliant fall colors of crimson and purple.
You can groove with your honey while not feeling like such a 'sap' .
Soybean aphids injure soybeans by removing plant 'sap' with their needle-like mouthparts.
Travellers, short on water rations, have died drinking the milky 'sap' of its poisonous foliage.
Bees collect this gummy resin from tree 'sap' , flowers, and vegetables, and then mix it with their own beeswax.
Vervet monkeys are omnivorous and consume a wide range of plant materials like fruits, seeds, 'sap' , and flowers.
He fell for it! What a 'sap'!
You haven't dragged some poor 'sap' along all this way, have you?
Create a living smorgasbord that includes plants with berries, foliage, fruit, nectar, nuts, pollen, 'sap' , and seeds, so critters can dine on what they like.
Major-General Pratt ordered his men to dig a long 'sap' trench.
The forest quickly engulfed them but the normal freshness of flowers, 'sap' , and growing plants were void in such a place.
Long debates and community objections more often than not 'sap' initial energy.
A special type of beneficial root fungi, called mycorrhizae, actually grow into plant roots, feeding off plant 'sap' but also providing water and nutrients to the plant.
The sucrose is transferred in the plant 'sap' from the leaf to the grape berry.
Woody stemmed plants, like Buddleia and plants that ooze 'sap' , like Asclepias, should be cut and placed in hot water.
I hit him with a 'sap' .
Place them in a plastic bag - a dry leaf will not be useful when we are identifying the virus with serological testing and we need the plant 'sap' from the leaves.
Would I have the nerve to pick out a wig that was fun and frivolous, or would the illness 'sap' my sense of humor?
All weaken a plant by sucking 'sap' , causing chlorotic spots on the tops of the leaves.
They were fresh and flourishing, full of 'sap' and vigor, though many of them had been born long before him.
When it shoves its tubelike mouthparts into a plant to suck 'sap' from the xylem, the insect may transmit a deadly plant bacterium, Xylella fastidiosa, in its saliva.
This writer's contempt for the sensitive 'sap' alone on a stool with his nylon-stringed guitar is matched only by his admiration for the one-man band-similar, but so much cooler.
With blood shortages for transfusions, companies are researching artificial blood, including human hemoglobin cultured in plant 'sap' .
He planned to 'sap' Elisabeth of all her powers, and then to take over the bridge and all worlds.
the hot, heady days of youth when the 'sap' was rising
It took me over an hour to get there for I met all the infantry coming down the 'sap' .
He kept his arms and legs moving, feeling the energy 'sap' from his muscles.
They complained that they were not allowed to use bombs or to 'sap' and mine the streets held by the insurgents, and they did not want to give quarter to anyone any more.
Large modern sugarmakers use a complex system of plastic tubes that carry 'sap' from the tree to roadside storage tanks or directly to the sugarhouse.
Immediately after the explosion, the besiegers could assault the fortress or extend their 'sap' trenches into the crater and reinforce them with gabions.
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