wap

[ wop, wap ]

/ wɒp, wæp /

verb (used with or without object), noun wapped, wap·ping,

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Origin of wap

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English wap, wap(p)e, whap; probably from wappen “to strike;” of imitative origin

Definition for wap (2 of 2)

WAP

[ pronounced as initials or wahp, wap ]

/ pronounced as initials or wɑp, wæp /

noun Digital Technology.

wireless application protocol: a protocol for transferring documents, especially web pages, over a computer network to cell phones and other handheld wireless devices.

Origin of WAP

First recorded in 1995–2000

Example sentences from the Web for wap

An aide to Princes William and Harry, Jamie Lowther Pinkerton, was hacked 416 times from the Wapping office.
8 Lessons From the Murdoch Phone Hacking Trial|Peter Jukes|December 5, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Then she helped press magnate Rupert Murdoch crush organized-labor opposition in his Wapping facilities.
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s Lasting Legacy|Christopher Dickey|April 8, 2013|DAILY BEAST
We are told that £130,000 was paid in one year to Mr. Mulcaire – which of you (the Wapping Three) asked about this payment?
9 Questions for Rupert|Geoffrey Robertson|July 18, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Wapping Project E1W 3SG Phone: 02076802080 www.thewappingproject.com Newcomer Pizza East has quickly become a favorite.
Gal With a Suitcase|Jolie Hunt|November 21, 2009|DAILY BEAST

Leaving them at the lodgings they had taken, he set off to Wapping.
Owen Hartley; or, Ups and Downs|William H. G. Kingston
Galata is the Wapping of the city: here we find dirty shops for ships' stores; merchants' counting-houses, and tipsy sailors.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 67, No. 416, June 1850|Various
Did he never visit Wapping with the same views, whatever they might be?
Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory|John M'lean
I fear that I shall have to take thee to London and to Wapping for the waters some day.
A Book of Quaker Saints|Lucy Violet Hodgkin
He was hanged at Wapping on the shore of the Thames, May 23, 1701.
Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period|Various

British Dictionary definitions for wap

WAP

/ (wæp) /

n acronym for

Wireless Application Protocol: a global application that enables mobile phone users to access the internet and other information services

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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