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wire tap en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of wiretap.
    alt of wiretap
    • As indicated, IDS is performed through a wire tap, and is clearly an out-of-band operation. 2016, Chwan-Hwa (John) Wu, J. David Irwin, Introduction to Computer Networks and Cybersecurity, page 849:
    • The deputy commissioner then informed me that the OPP had learned the identity of the restaurant through a wire tap. 2013, Roy McMurtry, Memoirs and Reflections, page 108:
    • The young man felt a desire to take this further, to demand a court ordered wire tap. 2008, Alan Krohn, The Mind's Eye: A Novel, page 73:

Forms

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wire taps Number=Plur lexicographic

wire tap en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of wiretap.
    alt of wiretap
    • "Not so fast," said officials of the US government, who deployed their National Security Agency (NSA) — tucked away behind clumps of trees along the Baltimore Washington parkway — to wire tap phone conversations between Benazir and her son Bilawal. 2011, Nafisa Hoodbhoy, Aboard the Democracy Train:
    • They can wire tap, look for Durand, and put Mulrooney under surveillance. 2012, Glenn A. Sunness, The Guernica Project, page 628:
    • It allowed the United States government to wire tap any communicational device, access the IP address of any computer's internet provider to track which websites its “insurgents” stumbled upon, and even inform government agents what books the citizens in "the land of the free" chose to rent. 2010, Adrian A Andre, For the Sake of Evolution: The Indigo Child, page 2:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
wire taps Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
wire tapped Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
wire tapped Tense=Past lexicographic
wire tapping Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic